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With This Ring Wedding Ceremonies
- Kalamazoo, MI 49009 (map)
- (269) 353-1963
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With This Ring Wedding Ceremonies • Kalamazoo, MI
- You'll be asked a few quick questions that will help describe your needs.
- You'll be asked to provide your contact information so that Rev. Carleen Burns will be able to get in touch with you.
- You'll have the option to get competing quotes from other qualified service professionals, saving you time and money.
Your ceremony is the passage to your marriage, and it can be a lot more than that "boring part you have to get through to get to the party". Choosing your officiant is a critical first step in the ceremony process.
With This Ring's goal is to provide you with a wedding which reflects both you and your fiance's unique personality, style, who you are as a couple, and a wedding that you and your guests won't simply attend, but enjoy, and truly the wedding you always dreamed about.
Rev. Carleen and Rev. Veronique are Kalamazoo-based wedding officiants, serving NW IN and SW MI couples, from Grand Rapids to South Bend, from the Lake Michigan shoreline to Lansing.
With award-winning service, backed up by outstanding client reviews and vendor endorsements, we welcome the opportunity to earn your confidence and provide you with the unparalleled service in the industry. Our services are based on the belief that our couple's needs are of the utmost importance. I'm dedicated to meeting those requirements. As a result, a high percentage of my business is from vendor and customer's referrals.
Our wedding services do not require pre-counseling; only a strong desire by both to give their relationship a loving as well as carefully considered lasting dedication of marriage.
We also offer a complete line of wedding stationery and accessories.
Question and answer
Q. What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A. Ask how this person will be getting to know you on a personal level, so they can write a ceremony that is fitting to you and your personalities? Do they have a "back up" plan for emergencies?
Q. If you were a customer, what do you wish you knew about your trade? Any inside secrets to share?
A. Always use a contract with your professionals; even your minister/officiant. Without that, you have no guarantee that they will not cancel on you! I can not tell you how many times a client has called me "last minute" because the original officiant backed out.
Mostly, the ceremony does not have to be boring!
Q. What questions should a consumer ask to hire the right service professional?
A. I think I cover those pretty completely on my FAQ page of my website.
Q. What important information should buyers have thought through before seeking you out?
A. Most importantly, they should have a lasting and well thought out commitment to each other. Next, I prefer they have a specific date in mind, as well as a general idea of how large of a wedding party will be standing up with them.
Q. Why does your work stand out from others who do what you do?
A. I strive to know each couple and create a ceremony that is unique to them. I am patient, flexible, and non-judgemental. I will not try to "direct" you or your decisions. I feel my responsibility is to recommend and inspire choices that you make so your wedding is a reflection of you as a couple.
Q. What do you like most about your job?
A. I love writing and getting to know my couples. Many become ongoing friends and I enjoy hearing about the new homes, career changes and babies!
Q. Do you have a favorite story from your work?
A. Recently, a ring bearer came up to me after the ceremony and said, "Hey, I know you...you read the story today. I liked it; it was funny!"
He made my day! I often will use small touches of humor in a ceremony. It doesn't have to be a boring and legalistic thing to get married.
Q. How did you decide to get in your line of work?
A. It was "on my heart" for a long time, when I finally decided to just look into what I needed to do it. I first took bookings under another minister for a year and a half before finally opening my own business.
Q. Tell us about a recent job you did that you are particularly proud of.
A. After going through rehearsal the night before, I arrived to have the couple request a change in the recessional. Not only did all go smoothly, but I also pinned a the boutonnieres on the groom, four groomsmen, both dads and a grandfather.
