Saving your hard earned money

I'm sure you've heard the nightmare stories concerning the high cost of the average wedding, and I'd like to make the case about having us perform your ceremony, and perhaps taking those all important wedding photographs... can provide not only a more stress free and low cost alternative, but to actually offer you an incredible experience to boot!

First, the costs! From the website TheWeddingReport.com , I'm going to list the national average costs for the usual wedding needs.

Estimated Total Consumer Spending

Year	Spending	Market Value
2006	$27,490	$62,428,981,280
2007	$28,800	$65,968,646,400
2008	$29,780	$68,752,311,720
2010	$30,570	$71,682,523,050
2012	$31,010	$73,836,546,560

OMG! The following are only for ceremony related expenses. These do not include reception costs.

Spending Market Value

Bride Accessories

$346

1,992,803

Groom Accessories

$121

1,672,122

Groom Tux/Suit

$204

1,969,897

Wedding Dress

$1,564

2,153,143

Hair & Makeup

$190

1,878,274

Ceremony Accessories

$176

1,786,651

Ceremony Location

$452

1,878,274

Ceremony Site Decorations

$406

1,809,557

Officiate/Pastor or Priest

$274

2,290,578

Ceremony DJ

$890

721,532

Ceremony Band

$1,463

432,919

Photographer

$2,373

2,084,426

Videographers

$1,463

1,076,572

So that comes to $9922, or if you don't have a videographer, $8459! You get to pay a ton of money for stress, stress, and more STRESS! You get a standard church or function room wedding, and chances are good that you will not have the slightest shred of a memory of your special day without referring to your expensive wedding photography because you were so stressed out!

Now lets talk about a beach, park or garden wedding. Better yet, go here and then come back to this page.

Ready for some more math? If you skip that $1500 wedding dress and go with something more "beachie", forgedaboud the groom's tuxedo and choose instead khaki pants or shorts and a lightweight shirt, skip the location fee and decorations a DJ for your ceremony location (a boom box will work just fine), probably half of the bridal accessories, and the hefty photography costs... you can see where I'm going with this. And I'm not even addressing the fact that our officiant and photography offerings are designed to make you comfortable and relaxed!

As far as I've be able to ascertain, I'm the only old beach hippie wedding officiant on the whole east coast, and my unique style of officiating will change the whole tone of your wedding day!! My ceremonies are uniquely relaxed, spiritual, fun, romantic and just plain comfortable. My ceremonies take you to a place you may have forgotten. They take you to yourself.....

Some couples may not want all day coverage and opt for what we specialize in.. your actual ceremony and a fun and painless session with us afterwards, usually involving around an hour or so. (We do offer optional "getting ready" and basic reception coverage to include you cutting your cake and first dance if it's all taking place within a 2 hour time frame...)

Our photography is anything but the standard yellowed vintage toned poses that show no warmth, the standard "every photographer's work looks the same" imagery that graces all the wedding guide publications.

We are reiki people who are seekers of energy. We are healing drummers who love the rhythm of life. We are hopeless love monkeys with an attitude... the attitude of romance! We go for the feelings by developing an easy and comfortable (and fun) relationship with you that shows in your images. We consistently deliver imagery that is focused on your love for each other. We deliver living breathing human connection kind of photography that you will remember... not for the poses that normal people never do in real life, but for how you felt when that image was captured!

We offer extraordinary wedding services for ordinary people.

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