MINISTER ALAN Reviews
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Dylan V. Sent on 10/29/2024
Minister Alan was the PERFECT officiant for our wedding ceremony in Joshua Tree National Park!
My wife Brianna and I are SO grateful for Minister Alan! He was the most PERFECT person to officiate our wedding ceremony in Joshua Tree National Park. Our ceremony was beautiful, well-organized, happy, and emotional, thanks to Minister Alan's guidance.
A quick recap of important items below:
1/ INITIAL MEETINGS: Minister Alan is extremely organized and detail oriented. From our first meeting, he asked us detailed questions to ensure the ceremony was structured how we wanted it. He helped us to find the perfect balance of a traditional spiritual / religious ceremony with a modern (and shorter) structure. He is extremely experienced in serving as officiant and had many great ideas that he proposed from the start as we began to create our ceremony.
2/ CEREMONY PLANNING: Preparing the ceremony was easy and straightforward! We felt well prepared as our special day approached due to Minister Alan's check-ins and email updates. He provided us with frequent drafts of the final ceremony "script" for us to review / critique and helped us both in writing clear, concise, and beautiful vows. He helped us to coordinate and think about each moment of the ceremony ahead of time (e.g. "Who is holding our rings?", "Will we hold hands during the ring exchange?", "Where will our unity ritual rope go after we've tied the knot?"), which made the ceremony itself stress free.
3/ CEREMONY ITSELF: The ceremony was fantastic! Minister Alan was dressed sharp and spoke clearly. He had carefully structured the ceremony to include many emotional and happy moments. We cried... a lot. When he arrived, he had a beautiful folder containing the ceremony script, which he gifted us afterwards. He also handed us our vows to read, as well as our ring exchange text. He coordinated signatures on our wedding license and reviewed all details on the license before mailing them on our behalf.
I highly recommend Minister Alan! He was a fantastic officiant and we can't imagine having a more perfect ceremony, thanks to his organization and guidance. Thank you, Minister Alan! -
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Michelle R. Sent on 11/08/2022Excellent Officiant
Minister Alan was very thorough, organized, thoughtful, responsive and easy to work with. The ceremony went off without a hitch and everyone commented on how great the message was. We would highly recommend working with Minister Alan if you are looking for a wedding officiant! -
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Kerry C. Sent on 11/15/2022Amazing Ceremony
Minister Alan was such a pleasure to work with! We received so many compliments on how well the ceremony went and how it had such a nice flow to it. Minister Alan made the planning process super easy and listened to what we wanted. He worked with us on our vows and was very present on our big day ensuring everything went according to plan! We would highly recommend him to every other couple looking for an officiant! -
Rob T. Sent on 07/14/2022
Excellent Experience
Minister Alan was wonderful to work with. He was very helpful and really listened to what we wanted as a couple, and executed it perfectly. Many guests specifically made comments about how well he spoke and how beautifully the ceremony flowed. -
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Edward C. Sent on 09/07/2021personal and proffesional
Minister Alan was excellent. He mapped out the entire ceremony from start to finish including all our personal requests.
During the ceremony he was warm and enthusiastic. He made the ceremony very special for us both and our guests. -
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John S. Sent on 07/07/2021The most organized vendor we worked with!
Minister Alan was an absolute pleasure to work with. He truly was the most organized person we worked with when planning the wedding. We did a few zoom calls to get to know each other. He came to the calls with an agenda and he made us feel comfortable throughout the process. He sent us a draft of the ceremony weeks before the actual wedding, we made a few edits, and it came together perfectly. Minister Alan's added humor in all the right places. Our guests commented afterwards that he must have known us for years!!! -
Francesca M. Sent on 06/08/2021
Fantastic experience!
Minister Alan was great. Easy to work with and helped walk us through the whole process. We couldn’t have been happier with his help. Thank you again Minister Alan, we had the best wedding day!!! -
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Erin Sent on 05/08/2021Best you can get
Minister Alan was one of the highlights of our wedding day. First, he worked closely with us through three (!!) rescheduled dates due to COVID, and handled the changes with patience and grace. Leading up to the event, he took care to ensure my husband and I had time to write and revise our vows, AND made sure what we had written matched in both style and length, which made sure our vows fit together seamlessly. On the weekend of, he asked the questions we didn't even know we needed to ask to ensure the ceremony itself was organized, clean, and flawless. In the hight of the wedding-weekend craziness, Minister Alan was a clam and reassuring presence.
Above all, he reminded us every step of the way about the weight and importance of the commitment of marriage. It's so easy to get caught up in the small details of the weekend and party, but Minister Alan helped us focus on the *real* reason why we're all here--to commit to each other in marriage. I was so grateful for his guidance and calming reassurance throughout the entire event, before, during, and after the ceremony.
I would recommend him to any couple. He will work with you to make sure you have the exact ceremony YOU want (not what your family wants, or what you think you should have, but what YOU want as a couple ). He is patient and has been through this rodeo before, so answered many of my questions about the ceremony and beyond. He was also flexible and adapted changing dates, wedding party members, and more, which truly helped take away some of the stress of planning a COVID-era wedding. I am grateful he was part of our big day, especially in the biggest moment of exchanging our vows.
You can't go wrong. We are so thankful!!! -
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Richard M. Sent on 09/05/2020
Simply amazing
Minister Alan was amazing. He was responsive, through and professional. He was very flexible when it came to us having to change our date last minute. He personalized the ceremony to fit us as a couple. My new wife and I were truly blessed to have him officiate our wedding ceremony. He was a big reason our wedding day will be so memorable. Highly recommended 👍🏻 -
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Alison O. Sent on 09/24/2019It Doesn't Get Any Better
Minister Alan is warm, friendly, professional and truly loves pulling together a beautiful ceremony. He is well-spoken, very organized and made the process very simple during a time where planning can be quite cumbersome. If you are looking for a minister for your wedding, he's a wonderful choice! -
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Ariel Sent on 06/05/2019Amazing, professional officiant!
Minister Alan was a complete professional from the very start. It's very clear that he has done this hundreds of times and knows all the ins and outs of how to put on a very good ceremony. Even on the day of the wedding when a change was made to do a tree planting ceremony, Minister Alan was very cool and collected and made it all happen without any stress or worry. Many of our guests told us how much they liked our officiant and how it was so easy to understand him because he enunciated very well. I would highly recommend Minister Alan to anyone who is looking for an extremely professional officiant. He also helps with your vows if you decided to write them yourself! -
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George Sent on 09/16/2018My wife (thanks Alan! :)) and I were looking for a non-denominational minister to conduct our ceremony and spoke to several before choosing Alan. What made our decision so easy was the immediate professionalism and care he put into the whole process. We live in Seattle and decided to hold our wedding back home in NY. What impressed us right off the bat was how accommodating Alan was with Skype. He reviewed the entire process with us and made a real effort to understand our relationship.
We were dreading picking an officiant for our wedding because most we found were a bit too casual for us. We wanted someone who we connected with and could trust would be more than capable of personalizing the experience in a professional way. We also wanted the pomp and circumstance of a religious wedding minus the religion, and Alan delivered in spades. He worked with us for two months to get our vows in place, determine a meaningful ritual (we decided to have a hand-fastening) and even went out of his way to meet with us in person during one of our weekend planning trips to the area.
On wedding day, he was prompt and took care of all the setup needed. He calmed our nerves when they needed calming and truly felt like a friend by the end of the day. We highly recommend Alan and will certainly reach out to him to renew our vows in the future! -
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Chris Sent on 08/23/2018A true professional, punctual calm and collected. Organized, beautifully written ceremony. As the groom I was confident in his capability. A calming personality to be around when my nerves kicked in moments before my bride arrived. Would highly recommend him to anyone who plans on being married by a Minister.
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