About Us
- We will officiate at your wedding when you do not have a minister, priest or judge or if your minister, priest or judge is not able or available to be at your wedding (at the reception site, at an outdoor site such as a park, at your home or at a church which could be rented).
- Most of the weddings we service are in greater Chicagoland & a radius of 125 miles from the city including: Lake Geneva, WI - Valparaiso, IN - Paw Paw Lake in Coloma, MI - Starved Rock in Utica, IL.
- We can guarantee one of our six clergy to officiate at your wedding.
- Civil, Religious(Catholic, Protestant, Non-denominational, Inter-faith, Spiritual), Interethnic, Interracial services are provided.
- Sample services are provided for you to use in their entirety or as tools to design your wedding service.
- You have the option to include family and ethnic traditions in your wedding service, as well as the choice to use or not to have: a sand service, a hand service, a unity candle, a memorial candle, and/or to give roses to the mothers. You are able to use traditional vows, contemporary vows, to repeat vows, memorize vows, write your own vows or just say "I do" to vows. You could say something personal to one another prior to the vows. You can use the amount of music you would like to have: no music, music to enter and leave, or music throughout the ceremony. You could have secular and/or sacred readings: none, one, two, three or more. You could have a ring given to the bride and/or groom or no rings used. You could conclude the ceremony with a kiss, sharing a glass of wine, an introduction of you to your guests for the first time as husband and wife or any combination. You can make the length of your service to be as short or long as you would like: 5 minutes to 1.5 hours (although most weddings at banquet facilities are between 15 to 30 minutes in length).
- If you have children you can include them in the service: by giving a gift to the child(ren) during the ceremony, have a family candle, and/or a family prayer, as well as having them; in the bridal party.
The goal of Clergy for Weddings is to please you and make your personalized wedding service tasteful and beautiful, while including the exact elements that would make your wedding service all that you wish it to be and more.