officiant cost

Re: officiant cost

• kewltif member

  

  November 2009 edited December 2011

  I think that's on the high end of the range.

  

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• newgate309

  

  November 2009 edited December 2011

  I've been meeting with officiants this week and their rates are 500-800. So $650 is average for what I've seen!

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• stapletond

  

  November 2009 edited December 2011

  Wow!  That is expensive.  We asked our friend's father/ Minister to marry us.  We are paying for his hotel room (since he is traveling from upstate NY), and then he asked that we give a donation to the church.  I think that is standard for his church and not a special rate for us.

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• nmoscoe member

  

  November 2009 edited December 2011

  We paid more than that for our officiant (celebrant). We had such a connection with her, there's no one else we would have wanted to marry us. She wrote a beautiful ceremony, we got a lot of compliments on it.

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• Jerzeygrl329 member

  

  November 2009 edited December 2011

  I'm spending $500 on mine

  

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• caketime

  

  November 2009 edited December 2011

  That's about average.  Mine was 1900 for two but it was hard to find a rabbi and rev.

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• lovbulldgs member

  

  November 2009 edited December 2011

  Our Rabbi is $600 and I felt that was about the average from the research I had done.  It is tax deductible though as it is considered a donation. 

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