Wedding Details
Reverend Kathleen Shannon
Wedding Details
Reverend Kathleen Shannon
WEDDING PRICING
The deposit fee is $150, required to hold the desired date. My wedding officiant package is $399, which includes the deposit, co-creating a custom ceremony and a frameable wedding certificate. If needed, it includes a sound system of portable speakers, a stand up mic for the couple, and a cordless mic for myself. This package also includes your marriage license hand delivered by me to the Orange County Recorder’s office and sending you the receipt.
A copy of your official marriage license document can be ordered after one month for $15 from the county recorder’s office. There is a $25/hr travel time charge if the distance to your venue is over 20 miles from my office. A wedding ceremony rehearsal with the wedding party the day before the Big Day is a separate fee of $100 and is highly recommended for an exceptionally smooth wedding. Transport by me from your hotel to the wedding venue and back in my clean white Lexus RX350 is available on the day of your ceremony for $100.
FINDING A VENUE
If you do not have a venue and would like me to find one for you, I can find your perfect romantic place. The fee for this service is $100. I have many amazing locations to choose from, some with no paperwork or extra permit fee for the city of the venue, including fantastic beach locations, mountain tops with ocean views and a cozy secluded rose garden. I have access to another place in a botanical garden with a large, ornate and breathtaking wedding venue at the top of a hill with beautiful views. I can email you links and photos with detailed descriptions and addresses to check out. I specialize in outdoor, natural, affordable eco-locations.
I can also travel to a venue of your own choosing, such as a home, beach, garden or community center. Included in my fee is a sound system miked for voice and a separate system for wedding music if needed, but I will need electricity for those. If we do not have access to electricity, we can make do with our own voices and hire musicians with acoustic instruments if you would like that.
CHURCH VENUE
I have permission to use the American Catholic Church in Laguna Beach on Park Avenue. They do not require the wedding couple to convert to Catholicism. There is an extra fee of $50 to be married here, which helps its upkeep costs. It is the second smallest church in the world, delightfuly cute and an official Laguna Beach historical building seating 45 guests. You do not need to be a Catholic to be married there. It is a pictuesque place inside and outside. My husband and I got married there in 1989. They have a lovely backyard reception area where we had our wedding photos taken.
They hold American Catholic Church services there every Sunday morning at 9AM, which I highly recommend and have attended myself. They offer the sacrament to all who attend their Sunday services. The Bishop has a great sense of humor and one of the regular Sunday priests officiated the funeral of Jim Morrison at the famous Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
WEDDING PERMITS
If you plan to have your wedding outside on a beach or in a park, sometimes a city permit must be obtained in advance for certain locations and it is time sensitive. I can help guide you in the permit process. The beautiful, wide sand beaches of San Clemente and Newport Beach do not require a permit for a wedding or professional photography and can make gorgeous keepsakes with their famous piers and glowing sunsets in the background of the wedding couple. There is a lot less stress at weddings that don’t require a permit.
Professional photographs in Laguna Beach require a city permit; cell phone photography does not. Wedding ceremonies require a permit in Laguna Beach, Corona Del Mar and South Laguna – home of the spectacular Montage Resort. They are all expensive permits and need time to book in advance, but there is always a workaround if not in your budget or time constraint, just ask me. I can be very creative in saving you money.
WEDDING COUNSELING
Counseling sessions with me, Reverend Kathleen Shannon are available and strongly advised to create and maintain a harmonious marriage. Wedding counseling includes the realities of married life, life with children, coping with in-laws, all about aging and life’s phases and what to expect, such as mid-life crisis, menopause, death of a family member, and what to do in those situations.
Receive non-biased, non-religious but spiritual advice and counseling early while you are in your loving honeymoon phase. It may save your marriage later, when no-one is in the mood to see a counselor, and you are struggling to understand what is going on. Understand how to co-create a happy marriage by understanding the Law Of Attraction.
COUNSELING COSTS
My fee is $135 for a couple together at one 90 minute session. Special wedding offer: a package of 3 sessions for $299! Advise is given how to stay happy together for the long term; how to navigate the trials of parenthood, in-laws, cross-cultural marriages and keeping your romance alive. Learn the skills to create a life of joy and mutual respect, manifesting all your desires as a couple when you begin your married life together.
PAST LIFE REGRESSION FOR COUPLES
Find out if you have spent other lifetimes together, or life between lives. Meet your spirit guides, are they compatible? Find out the challenges you will face as a couple and as future parents, which greatly depends on your own relationship with your parents when you were a child. Were you “born again to be together?” If so, you will want to understand what your relationship patterns are, what lessons still need to be learned, and so brought you both back together.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
A Marriage License must be purchased from the county recorder’s office in person in the county where the wedding takes place, and it is time sensitive. There is no blood test required in Orange County to complete the requirements of a marriage license. You only need one witness to sign. The completed marriage license document must be returned to the county recorder’s offices to be legal. The county recorder’s office has indicated they prefer the minister/officiant to deliver the document in person. This service is included in my wedding fee.
MARRIAGE LICENSE WARNING!
Marriage licenses must be returned to the county recorder’s offices in a timely manner, or they expire. For the county, their preferred method of doing this is for me as your minister to hand deliver the document. If you decide to mail or hand deliver the document yourselves, then my responsibility is forfeit. If there are any mistakes or complications afterwards, and I must become involved again to correct any mistakes. If this happens, there will be a $50 fee charged in advance of the corrections. If you prefer to mail in the license: make a copy first, and then send it certified with a return receipt. This is strongly recommended. No smudging, stains, folding, stapling or white out is allowed after the document is out of my hands. If there is, the document must be redone with a $25 fee paid to the county and the required $50 fee, both paid to myself in advance of the corrections.
MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
An official Universal Life Marriage Certificate in a special protective cover costs $30. Stamped with a golden embossed seal, it makes for a beautiful keepsake.
A simple color copy version of the Marriage Certificate is included in my wedding package fee. A golden embossed seal may be purchased to place upon it for $3.
EXTRAS
Catering, cake, flowers, decorating, weddings clothes, photographer, DJ and entertainment are all extra and vendors can possibly be recommended by me at no extra charge.
CANCELLATIONS
Cancellations are accepted anytime before the wedding. If the custom ceremony has been written already a $50 refund will be given, along with a copy of the written ceremony to keep. Cancellations after 2 weeks before the wedding will forfeit the $150 deposit. Any approved deposit refund may be transferred into a counseling or healing session by permission.
Wedding Officiant Package
$399
Custom Ceremony and Vows
Sound System
Marriage Certificate
Marriage License Delivered and Recorded
Ceremony Deposit – $150
Extra Costs if requested
Wedding Rehearsal – $100
Travel Over 20 Miles – $25
Finding A Venue – $100
Counseling for Couples – $135
PAYMENTS
Payment for your wedding deposit of $150 can be made over the phone with Zelle, PayPal, credit card or debit card. Final payment with cash, Zelle, PayPal, credit or debit card at the wedding site (before the ceremony!) are accepted. There will be an extra 3% fee for credit or debit card use. Regular checks are accepted if mailed and received two weeks in advance of the event with prior approval. Contact me for approval of a check or money order and for my mailing address at (949) 422-4092 or email me at kathleensministry@gmail.com.
Wedding Officiant and Counselor
I create a wedding ceremony that reflects your love, personality and spirituality. Gentle couples counseling is also offered. Have all your questions answered in the free wedding consultation. Make a 20 minute appointment any day of the week from 9am to 8pm. Thank you, blessings and congratulations!