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YOUR love shines through my ceremony. Non-denominational, different religions, Catholic, Christian and/or spiritual ... from the heart. My ceremony reflects and honors YOU as you are.

The love you feel for each other really comes through in my carefully-crafted ceremony ... both for you and for your guests - that is what I have been told is what distinguishes my ceremonies from what people are usually expecting. The really remarkable feature is that your family and guests actually feel the love you share and are gripped in the moment, consciously participating. I often see couples in the audience reach out to hold each other's hands as the ceremony unfolds, so lots of good things happen here! Most people today are not overly religious, but want a beautiful and meaningful ceremony ... not just a run-of-the-mill, as-expected repeat of something they have seen many, many times.

My wedding ceremonies are definitely spiritual. They have to be when you think about it: marriage is much more than a kiss and a binding contract. Mine is a Christian perspective as Jesus might have done it ... which means it offends no one, honors everyone (no matter their religion or lack of it), and joins our common humanity in its universal trait, love. At your wedding, you will have family and friends of every eclectic sort: very pious and wouldn't-set-foot-in-a-church-if-you-paid-them, Jews, Muslims, Christians and atheists. Universally, they all come out saying to each other, "That was the best wedding I ever saw!"

I will go anywhere, indoors or outdoors ... in Washington, DC, suburban Virginia (inner suburbs out to Winchester and Fredericksburg, especially Hunt Country), Maryland (inner DC suburbs, plus all of the wonderful locations in Baltimore, up to Frederick and to Harve de Grace). If you like, call and tell me what you want your wedding to be like. We'll talk, and, if that sounds initially attractive, we'd meet and get to know each other, and we would go over the ceremony I use. You take it home after our meeting and read it over. If you like it, you then call back and confirm, and we go from there.

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Jennifer
Wedding: 08/27/2010
2 Reviews

5.0 out of 5.0	Quality of Service:	(5.0/5.0)
	Responsiveness:	(5.0/5.0)
	Professionalism:	(5.0/5.0)
	Value:	(5.0/5.0)
	Flexibility:	(5.0/5.0)

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Jim Burch was basically a godsend. We had no suggestions for an officiant and no experience planning a wedding so after finding Jim online and reviewing his website, we felt he would probably best represent the feelings we wanted for our wedding. My husband's family are Catholic and my side of the family ranges from Athiest to Methodist. Jim was able to create a ceremony in which the love was felt by everyone and each person was able to enjoy the spirituality of the ceremony while keeping them involved in it as well. I have to admit that have found that many ceremonies I have been to become boring and long. Jim was fantastic. He was interesting, lively, gave phenominal speeches and he was able to capture the essence of a wedding, love, and make everyone FEEL it. People got so caught up in the romance of the ceremony that you could literally SEE the love. So many people were overwhelmed with the feelings Jim was able to catpure, we had people crying, laughing, smiling, kissing, etc. I felt that he did such a good job and was able to create a ceremony that made EVERY SINGLE PERSON, and of different religions, more than happy and also extremely impressed. To this day I have people ask me about our officiant, how we found him and how fantastic he was. Right after the ceremony I had several people ask me for his information!!! Beside Jim providing a officiant service and a ceremony that will NEVER be forgotten (we have friends who bring up how amazing it was every time we see them) he was a blast to have at the wedding as well. The guests had a great time talking with him and Jim was also very helpful in coordinating the ceremony and getting everything organized. I did not have to worry about a thing! We didn't have a rehearsal and Jim was able to make sure everybody knew what was going on and everything went so smoothly, everyone looked great and no one missed a beat. Throughout our time planning the ceremony with Jim, he was so flexible. He tried his best to make his schedule accomodate to ours and also provides a very reasonable cost and it very understanding as well. Overall, I obviously cannot rave enough about Jim Burch. He excelled beyond the hopes we could have ever had for our ceremony and everyone who was there that day will remember the magic!