Cost for premarriage counseling + officiant

shimmer193

Hello, I'm not sure how many people do premarriage counseling, but does anyone know the average price range for one-on-one counseling for 8-10 sessions?

My pastor is doing it for free and said we could donate to his charity if we wanted, and we feel like we definitely want to give, but we don't know what a reasonable amount is. He's also doing the actual wedding for us for free since we attend the church, so we want to factor that in too.

MarieSD

I don't know what the average is, but here's what we paid:

We did 5 classes with our pastor and were married at the church. There was no charge for either of these services, but they did suggest a thank offering of $500.

We also had one session with a marriage counselor and had to take a professionally-graded personality test. (The kind where you get four letters that represent the aspects of your personality). The fee for that 1 professional counseling session (1.5 hours) and the cost of the test (we had to send it away to be graded) was $300.

MLandCJ

When I called Together in Texas to find information about counseling they had a list of fee based providers. I called and the lady informed me it would be $800.

We paid $300 for RH and wedding together.

ssarangi

we had 2 sessions with a pre-marital counselor as part of the Two-gether Texas and it was $85/session.  Dr. Kindley in Dallas...he's also an officiant, but I'm not sure what he charges...