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I'm in Massachusetts so my fee is different from yours ($275) but I do know that MA regulates how much an officiant can charge, like a JOP. Don't know if it's like this in all states but it might be a fee that the state of CA has set and not so much the individual.
We are paying $425 for ours. AND an extra $165 for the rehearsal.
He's a family friend, so he's free... but we're giving him a small honorarium- $200.
We're paying $600 in Chicago, which does cover rehearsal, and frankly I think it's a bit of a rip-off. However, he's a former nondenominational pastor, and my fiance and I are born again Christians but I was raised Jewish and he was raised Catholic, so this way we get an officiant who shares our beliefs without having to get married in a religious building that would be majorly offensive to our families. And, we've been able to work with him to customize the ceremony a great deal.
$200, which I find quite steep for our officiant because she also lives just down the road from where the ceremony is being held coinsidently. I would have been happier with $150
ok, just read others posts and $400+ for officiants?! holy moly!
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I'm going with a friend (free!), but before I asked him I looked into wedding ministers who only do weddings. One quoted $500 and the other $450. They are not affiliated with a church and weddings are their only source of income so I guess i can understand the cost once you consider the time needed to meet and personalize the ceremony. Although this is in North Carolina, I have to admit I was honestly shocked at the prices and was expecting more of the $200-300 range.
We are having two officients (jewish and christian) and paying them each $800. It's a lot of money but it's important to us to have both of them there and they are traveling from 70+ miles away.
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We had a Rabbi- which I are more expensive than an officiant from what I can tell- we paid $800. But we did have a bunch of meetings with him, so i *think* it was worth it.
We're paying $700 (down from $1000) for our officiant. He's a great writer and will be meeting with us to construct a very personal and customized ceremony of our choice and his delivery is great. I know it's pretty pricey, now I'm reconsidering our 30 minute ceremony and thinking of making it 1-hour... Lol
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All together for the church and officiant it's about $940. Catholic weddings are expensive.
400 sounds a lot more reasonable than 800 - which is what the officiant that my wedding planner found is asking for!!!
My wedding is in SF and I am looking for some more cost-effective leads...
Our officiant is not "charging" us anything (he is super nice) but he said if we felt the need to pay him, we could basically set the price. Because we had budgeted $250 we are going to go ahead and pay him that. We are getting married about 4 hours away from where we live and had to search for months before finding a pastor that was willing to marry us even though we were not a member of their church. He has been awesome and totally deserving of the $250!
I'm in Miami Beach florida. I am paying $250 not including rehearsal still deciding weather or not to have her be at both. She is a non-denominational officiant. I have a meeting with her this friday to discuss my options, I'll find out more then.
Btw...my family lives in the San Francisco area, everything is expensive to get married there..$$$
$250 in Dallas and that includes the rehearsal dinner. i found him on craigslist.
we are asking one of our closest friends to get ordained so that he can marry us. So, if there are any fews that go along with that, we'll definitely pay for them... but otherwise he's free!
In the Bay Area all the ones I looked at were in the $400-700 range. And all pastors, which we were for sure not looking for. It was really hard to find someone who wasn't affiliated with a church, so for us, we're asking a friend to do it. I'm sure we'll get him a small gift for his time. I just couldn't justify paying $400+ for our 16 minute ceremony (we've already written it!). We just want to get on to the party!
We're paying $400 for ours for a non-denominational ceremony in Palo Alto.
Wow, this seems steep! My childhood minister will be performing our ceremony, and I was planning on giving him a nice card and a $100 check. My FI and I are also planning on donating a percentage of our wedding money to the church. Maybe I should budget more? I don't feel like he will consider it a "job" - he gets paid for his full time job as a minister, so I assumed any money we gave him would more of a "thank you gift" than payment for a service.
We're getting married in a church that requests a donation, but the office staff suggested to us this week that $250 is what most people give. This is on top of us giving a regular weekly donation for being parishioners for over a year until the ceremony. We had to be registered parishioners before we could even get a date.
I worked with one who was $300. PM if you want his info.
As for our wedding, we're having the mutual friend who introduced us (my FI grew up with him in FL) marry us. He's a charismatic public speaker and also knows us very well. We can't imagine anyone else doing it. And we'll pick up the tab for his suit...and I'm making all the guys guitar pick boutonnieres! :)
Hmmm, I had budgeted somewhere around $400 (including lodging). Since the priest is making a trip from the Bay Area to Tahoe, I think I need to add more. It's difficult when they don't just give you a price, or even a donation suggestion.
Sad thing is, I'm not even religious. I could go much cheaper in Tahoe. Oh well, if I get an expensive dress, the boy should get his expensive priest!
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Hello hive, I am getting married in San Francisco and was quoted $400 for my officiant's fees. Just wondering if that is the norm for officiant fees in San Francisco/bay area or is this too much?