Fort Collins Wedding Officiant Fees

Your ceremony is the heart of your wedding day. Be sure it delights your soul and feels true to who you are as a couple. You'll remember the words you exchange and the love on your partner's face far longer than the flavor of your cake or the color of your flowers.

Our mission is to offer every couple a ceremony level that fits their desires, personal beliefs and budget. No matter what you're envisioning your ceremony to be, we have a service or product that will allow you to have what you want at a reasonable price. And if we don't--then we'll create one just for you!

Our services and products fall into three general categories:

Noncustomized Services (Elopement and Basic Ceremonies. For budget-conscious couples seeking a professional wedding officiant to perform a pre-written, short & sweet service, whether for two or 200.)

Customized Services (Classic and Premium Custom Ceremonies. For couples who want to develop a personal relationship with their wedding officiant while co-creating a unique and memorable wedding ceremony.)

DIY Products (Write Your Own Ceremony E-kit and one-on-one consultations. For hands-on couples who want to do it themselves, this is a fun and inexpensive option.)

Elopement Ceremony...romantic and intimate for just the two of you or a few guests
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Want your special day to be just between the two of you? Or maybe you only want a few family members to witness your vows. Consider our elopement ceremony to make your intimate wedding a memory that you will treasure. This service is a delightful and affordable alterative to the County Courthouse wedding. If you live in another part of the country and considering a brief ceremony followed by a honeymoon in the beautiful Colorado Rockies, then this option may be right for you.

Elopement Ceremony Includes:
Your choice of pre-written civil or nondenominational religious service in a casual setting of your choice
(no wedding party, processional, etc.
small number of guests okay)
Performing of ceremony by one of Lyssabeth's wedding officiants
Arrival of officiant 10 minutes prior to start of ceremony
Filing of marriage license

Basic Ceremony...a simply beautiful ceremony for you and your guests
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If you are looking for a pre-written, memorable wedding experience for you and your guests, consider the Basic Ceremony. The wording is similar to our Elopement Ceremony, yet allows for a processional and recessional, guests and an earlier arrival time for our officiant to facilitate pre-ceremony coordination. Affordably priced, simple and poignant.

Basic Ceremony Includes:
Your choice of pre-written civil or nondenominational religious ceremony in the setting of your choice
Unlimited number of guests
Pre-wedding email and phone consultation to go over details an answer your questions
Written script of your ceremony, including processional with all of your wedding party members listed
Performing of ceremony by one of Lyssabeth's professional wedding officiants
Arrival of officiant 20 minutes prior to start of ceremony to line up processional, coordinate with other wedding vendors, etc.
Filing of marriage license

Classic Custom Ceremony...
personalized, creative, and attractively priced
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A customized ceremony that allows your personalty to shine through! You'll meet with your chosen officiant to craft a ceremony that celebrates your unique story of love and commitment. We have a vast array of resources and ideas from which you can choose to compose a ceremony that you and your guests will look back on and smile about.

Classic Custom ceremony includes:
Choice of Officiant (subject to availability)
Complimentary initial consultation and one ceremony-writing meeting
Unlimited telephone and email consultations
Individually-written ceremony composed of choices from Lyssabeth's array of options
(Core components plus up to three additional component selections)
Written script of ceremony
Arrival of officiant 30 minutes prior to ceremony
Performing of ceremony
Filing of marriage license

Premium Custom Ceremony...our premier choice for the couple desiring a ceremony that is the supreme culmination of their personal love story.
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Provides unlimited customizing from our resources or yours. This level allows for your truly unique and creative expression along with the one-on-one guidance of our professional officiant.

Premium Custom Ceremony Includes:
Choice of Officiant (subject to availability)
Complimentary initial consultation
Unlimited ceremony-writing/review meetings.
Unlimited telephone and email consultation
Access to Lyssabeth's vast resources for ceremony ideas, with unlimited number of additional options
Ability to add ceremonial elements that are not part of Lyssabeth's component offerings (useful if you want to include little-known cultural/religious features)
Individually created ceremony that is uniquely yours
Pre-wedding day coordination of ceremony participants (readers/speakers, singers, musicians, photographers)
Facilitation of rehearsal
On-site coordination 60 minutes prior to ceremony
Performing of ceremony
Filing of marriage license
Free change-of-name kit

Many brides and grooms are turning to personal friends and family members to perform their wedding ceremony. While it's not for everyone, this new trend is both cost-conscious and adds a wonderful personal touch to your day. In Colorado, as in many other states, it's a simple (and free!) process to obtain the credentials necessary to legally perform weddings.

Not sure this is the best choice for you? Read our article titled Having a Friend Perform Your Wedding Ceremony for the pros and cons, and look over the resources we offer below to simplify the process.

Write Your Own Ceremony E-Kit
...a Do It Yourself option
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Do you know someone that you think would be perfect for performing your ceremony? Many states allow a non-clergy person to obtain either a one-day certificate or an online ordination in order to legally perform a ceremony. This allows couples the opportunity to create a totally unique script AND have it performed by someone close to them.

But where to start? The choices can be overwhelming and hard to locate. To make the write-your-own-ceremony process easy and fun, we've put together our exclusive Write Your Own Ceremony E-kit. It includes all of the ceremony components and wording options used by Lyssabeth's Wedding Officiants. All of the resources you need to put together your own customized ceremony, along with step by step instructions will be at your fingertips for a fraction of the cost of a professional wedding officiant.

Also included are tip sheets for the nonprofessional officiant, ten sample ceremonies, a list of "could go wrong" situations and tips on how to avoid and handle them, and a free phone consultation to assist you with any rough spots you may encounter along the way.

Click here for details and to order your Write Your Own Ceremony E-Kit. You'll be able to access it immediately.

One-On-One Coaching...for the amateur officiant who wants to perform like a pro
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So, you've exhibited a flair for public speaking and now the happy couple has enlisted you to perform the ceremony that will unite them in committed bliss. FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES!! No pressure there, folks! After all you have a whole 20-30 minutes to creatively express the personal love and commitment of this couple in a unique way that won't have guests fidgeting, counting the minutes until they can escape to cocktails! Easy-peasy! Simply craft this script with heartfelt humor and poignancy and deliver it flawlessly in front of 200 people! Gulp!

Okay, get back here! You've graciously accepted this task and it really is an honor that you were chosen, right? You've got this nifty Write Your Own Ceremony E-kit, so how hard can it be? But how do you avoid the recurring nightmare where you're standing in front of everyone (okay...you can admit it to us...you're naked in the dream, aren't you?) and you're stammering out all kinds of weird utterances while the bride's uncle heckles you from the back row?

No worries, we've got you covered. We provide affordable coaching to talk you through the rough spots. Whether you need help with legalities, logistics, ceremony order, etiquette, public speaking or simply want some pre-ceremony hand-holding, we're here to help. We'll even provide the first 10 minutes for free.

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A Word About Pricing

We are truly committed to serving couples of ALL budget levels. Subsequently, our prices range from under $20 (for our Do-It-Yourself Wedding Ceremony E-Kit) to over $600 (for our pull-out-all-the-stops Premium Custom Ceremony)

Yes, that's quite a large range! It's difficult to quote a price without knowing the full scope of your circumstances: your officiant preferences, amount of customizing you want in the ceremony, if you want us to facilitate your rehearsal, the simplicity/complexity of your service, whether you want to meet with your officiant in person (or if telephone consults will suffice), your ceremony location etc. We've found the best way to give couples an accurate and firm quote is to chat briefly about these variables.

We encourage couples to establish a realistic budget for all of their wedding vendors. We also acknowledge and respect that each couple will want to prioritize their spending differently for various parts of their wedding day. To that end, we offer a variety of officiating services and products so that every couple may have the ceremony they seek at a price that is both affordable for them and compensates our wedding officiants fairly for their expertise, experience, time, energy, creativity and professionalism.

Expect to pay in the high $100s to low $200s for a small alternative-to-the-courthouse elopement ceremony, the mid-$200s for a traditional pre-written ceremony (for any number of guests) with minimal edits (such as our Basic), high $300s for a customized wedding ceremony (such as our Classic Custom) with in-person meetings with your officiant. Rehearsals are an additional $100 to $125. If you want to save money by running your own wedding rehearsal, click here for a how-to.

And if your wishes fall in between the above levels, then we'll quote you a price that is in between the aforementioned pricing. Our goal is to give you everything you want without having you pay for things you don't!

Please give us a call at 970-372-5398. In less than five minutes, we can ask the right questions to help you determine the best ceremony level for you and quote you a firm price.

Fort Collins Wedding Officiant Services