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Best Wedding Officiants in Kansas City

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Kansas City, MO 64119

Why choose this provider?

Your Magical Day is a full-service wedding venue that serves clients in Kansas City. The business offers couples several wedding setups, including a classic white wedding room, a sunflower chapel, and a rose garden room. Options are also available for appointments or walk-ins, such as proxy marriages, Zoom ceremonies, curbside services, and weekend weddings that allow up to 25 guests. Your Magical Day accommodates LGBT couples and offers onsite parking, handicap access, and dressing rooms. It has been featured on NBC, CBS, and Fox.

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4.9
Google
4.9 / 5 (169)

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101 s. Main st, Independence, MO 64050

Why choose this provider?

KC Weddings 2 Go is a mobile wedding officiant service in Independence backed by over 30 years of nuptial experience. The team has participated in and photographed over 1,500 weddings and offers services for intimate nuptials anywhere in the Kansas City Metro area including same-sex unions, on-call traditional weddings, courthouse-style ceremonies, spiritual, interfaith, and non-religious services. Couples have access to The Intimate Collection with a fully licensed officiant, professional wedding photographer, and top-quality bridal bouquet and boutonniere, and couples can opt to tie the knot in any desired location such as the company's own chapel, a backyard, the Renaissance Festival, or Powell Gardens. Additional service include videography, a Unity Candle, a Sand Ceremony, and destination weddings, and ceremonies are available in Spanish as well.

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4.9
Facebook
5.0 / 5 (75)
Google
4.8 / 5 (71)

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1701 McGee Street, Kansas City, MO 64108

Why choose this provider?

Since 2013, The Vow Exchange has helped over 1,500 couples plan weddings that are intimate, stylish, and affordable. Clients choose between two venues in the Kansas City area for their wedding or elopement. For ceremony and reception details, the Cakewalk Events team is on-site for all-inclusive planning. With multiple wedding packages to choose from, couples can count on experienced professionals at The Vow Exchange to help plan their perfect day.

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4.8
Google
4.5 / 5 (76)
Facebook
5.0 / 5 (70)
Yelp
5.0 / 5 (7)

Website
6116 NW 49 Terrace, Kansas City, MO 64151

Why choose this provider?

Amore By Rosebuddwedding is a wedding officiant that does all types of weddings in the Kansas City area. Reverend Rose Budd uses a Ceremony Wording Guide that includes processional handoff, hands ceremony, unity candle, and parental honoring. A client may also opt to include other items in the guide like a wine box, medallion, rock, minister's blessing, and unity painting ceremony. Amore By Rosebudwedding performs themed, religious, and spiritual weddings.

Reputation:

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4.8
Google
4.8 / 5 (4)

Website
9204 NE 94th street, Kansas city, MO 64157

Why choose this provider?

KC Prompt Weddings is a wedding officiant serving clients from Kansas City. The business provides a wide range of services such as small or large wedding ceremonies and civil, courthouse, or justice of peace ceremonies. Wedding rehearsals and vow renewal services are also available. KC Prompt Weddings is led by Marvin Clay, an ordained wedding officiant who has been providing his services to the community since 1999. He caters to both religious and non-religious wedding ceremonies.

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Website
Olathe, KS 66051

Why choose this provider?

Timmy Gibson performs wedding ceremonies in Olathe and is backed by decades of experience. Brides and grooms appreciate the positive energy and charm the officiant brings to every ceremony, and the team can create a customized service for a Classic Christian as well as non-religious wedding service. Pastor Timmy Gibson is the founding Pastor of Mercy Church, has been a minister for over 25 years, and aims to help couples find each other's love language for a healthy and long-lasting relationship. The Mercy Church is a Christian inter-denominational church that welcomes those of various religions as well as those who have not been brought up with much religion at all, and clients can take a look at biographies for all officiants and at some of Mr. Gibson's Marriage Series videos on the group's website. Couples coaching sessions and matchmaking services are also available.

Reputation:

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5.0
Google
5.0 / 5 (10)
Facebook
5.0 / 5 (7)

Professionalism:

We hire mystery shoppers to call our providers anonymously and evaluate them. Providers who respond quickly, answer questions thoroughly, and communicate politely score higher.
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Website
Lenexa, KS 66215

Why choose this provider?

It's A Wonderful Life Weddings KC handles wedding officiating services in Lenexa. The group caters to interfaith, Christian, non-religious, civil, and same-sex wedding ceremonies and offers an initial no-obligation discussion for couples to first decide if it is a fit for their desired service. Clients receive unlimited phone and email communication, a fun and engaging planning process, ideas for various rituals, officiating services the day of the ceremony, rehearsal time, a keepsake certificate of marriage, and filing of the legal document to the County Clerk. The celebrant is there to listen to the couples' vision as well as offer help to create the perfect ceremony and can also dress up as Elvis if desired. Other services include renewal of vows, commitment ceremonies, and master of ceremonies, and the company is a member of the International Association of Professional Wedding Officiants.

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4.0
Google
4.0 / 5 (1)
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Introduction

    Planning a wedding is a lot of work. You have numerous tasks and responsibilities. Even if you opt to hire a wedding planner, your input is required for everything. One of the decisions you need to make is who will marry you. Choosing your wedding officiant can be a challenging undertaking.

    If you have a religious background and are a regular member of a church, synagogue or other house of worship, the choice is probably easy. But if not, you may want something less traditional. You can choose a professional or ask a close friend or family member if they would be willing to officiate the ceremony. These FAQs can help you make a decision about your wedding officiant.

  • What is a wedding officiant?

    A wedding officiant, also called marriage officiant, is an individual with the legal authority to perform wedding ceremonies. Local judges and clergy members commonly act as wedding officiants. But, nearly anyone can obtain the necessary certification to become an officiant, although requirements vary from state to state.

  • What does a wedding officiant do?

    The main role of a wedding officiant is to lead and perform the marriage ceremony. They must follow state law to ensure the union becomes official. Wedding officiants draft what they’ll say at the ceremony, often with input from the engaged couple. Some of their associated duties are signing and filing the marriage license.

  • Can you officiate your own wedding?

    Officiating your own wedding is referred to as self-solemnizing. This practice is only legal in a few states, including Colorado, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Kansas, Maine, Illinois, California, and Washington, D.C. The rules governing self-solemnizing in these jurisdictions differ. All states legally recognize self-uniting marriages that are properly performed in a state where they're permitted.

  • What do you call a person who officiates a wedding?

    A marriage officiant’s title depends on who they are and what they do. For example, clergy members are called reverend, father, minister, rabbi, pastor. Common titles of civil marriage officiants are judge, your honor, magistrate, or mayor. Friends and family members who get temporary officiant status usually have no title.

  • Who can officiate a wedding?

    The individuals who are allowed to officiate a wedding depends on the laws of the state where the ceremony is performed. Typically, most clergy members and certain civil officers can perform marriage ceremonies. Many states also permit other individuals to obtain temporary officiant authorization or to become ordained to perform a marriage.

  • Can a notary officiate a wedding?

    Public notaries may perform marriage ceremonies in only a few states. They include Florida, Maine, South Carolina, Montana, and Nevada. Of course, a notary may officiate a wedding in other states if the state they’re in allows individuals to become wedding officiants, and the notary follows those guidelines.

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