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Officiant fees?

I am just beginning to plan and purchase for my wedding next October, but here's the part I'm really dreading--choosing (and paying) an officiant. I realize a courthouse wedding would be a budget friendly alternative, however:
A. No matter how I look at it, having my ceremony at a courthouse is not exactly conjuring up images up romanticism.
B. Courthouses are for criminals and getting various types of permits and licenses, NOT getting married.

I know some people may read the last part and think "I got married at a courthouse and there was nothing wrong about it to me"! and that's totally fine. My fiance and I have other plans, and unless someone who is a family friend somehow brings up in conversation that they are a licensed minister, I'm thinking we're going to have to find an officiant.

Can anyone out there tell me what they may have paid, if they thought it was too much, or just right, or you feel like it was a great deal? I'm really not looking to pay any more than maybe $100 but I don't think that an officiant is going to see it my way (although my ceremony is literally going to be 15 minutes or less AND I am on a super strict budget). Help!
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