Wedding Question

[karla]

I am just wondering about how much did you pay the priest or minister or justice of the peace to do your wedding ceremony? MY brother and his fiancee are getting married in May and asked me this questions. I know personally that my priest didn't have a "fee", but we gave him what we could afford for doing ours. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Beckijhn]

Ours offered to do it for free (he was our children's minister whom we love dearly) but we paid him $100 as a gift. I think my brother and SIL paid the same to the JP they had do their ceremony - not in the court but at an park we love.

HTH

 

[Didymus]

whoo ooh I think I paid ten but that was 25 years ago. i am direct so i woould ask him flat out how much he charges and if he pussyfoots around tell him name a figure or he s doing it for free.

 

[jayebrownlee]

I think that we will pay our minister about £150

Jay

 

[LN]

I did not pay my pastor anything. He did everything for free - counseling and the ceremony.

But we ended up donating a Bose wave radio CD to the church valued at about $500. We knew that they really wanted one, and had access to a discount program with Bose. He was stoked when we gave it to him!

 

[IslandBreeze]

My grandpa did our wedding, but we paid him $75. He wouldn't take anymore than that...

 

[OracleX]

If I remember ours was $150 and all we had was $20 bills and gave him $160 and he kept the change.

 

[hotknikkels]

I have a joke - well I am not married so I can only tell jokes!!!! And it ain't got much revealance but I thought it was funny. Here goes:

The wedding day was fast approaching. Everything was ready, and nothing could dampen Jennifer's excitement, not even her parents' nasty divorce.
Her mother Carol finally found the PERFECT dress to wear and would be the best dressed mother of the bride EVER!
A week later, Jennifer was horrified to learn her new young stepmother had purchased the same dress.
She asked Barbie, her stepmother, to exchange the dress, but Barbie refused, "Absolutely not! I'm going to wear this dress; I'll look like a million bucks in it!"
Jennifer told her mother, who graciously replied, "Never mind, dear, after all it's your special day, not hers."
Two weeks later, another dress was finally found for Jennifer's mom. When they stopped for lunch, Jennifer asked her mother, "What are you going to do with the first dress? You don't have any place to wear it."
Carol grinned and replied, "Of course, I do, dear! I'm wearing it to the rehearsal dinner!"

 

[Crys2God]

My husband and I gave a donation to the church. Again it was something that we could both afford.

 

[minniemouse]

When my hubby and I got married our church only had an interium pastor and I hardly knew him. So we paid the church $250 for the use of the church, plus an additional $100 to the pastor that was basically retired, but would do special events such as this for those he had known for a long time, which applied to us.

 

[hollygirl]

I didn't pay. My dad is a minister and so is my brother. My dad did the sermon and my brother did the vows. How cool is that?

 

[hotknikkels]

that is really cool - I hope my future wife has the same type of connections!!!

 

[GREG]

we fed ours.................

 

[hotknikkels]

hehehehehhehehehehe - that is a cunning plan - you do the service we give you a cake!!!

 

[HigherPraiz]

I used my step-dad so we gave him about $100 and he gaves us it all back for my husbands birthday...So really we payed nothing