Al was amazing for our wedding. When I initially contacted him, I did not have a set date in mind. So he explained to me the process and let me know what to expect. Then said, "give me a call when you are ready, and we will work with your schedule." (and boy, he meant it.) When it was time to schedule, I called him around June 30th and requested July 4th or 5th, which was scheduled with ease. Then I had to call him back and reschedule, he was still very accommodating even though he did not plan to work on July 4th. He gave us our wish. He married us on July 4th.

Al was fun to work with. He took very nice pictures. His backyard is a beautiful place to have a ceremony. Which you can see by the pics on his website.

I was referred to Al by a friend and I am glad she shared the info, as will I.


Thanks Al.

We LOVE AL!!! Al is extremely professional and caring! He has a ceremony that is warm and romantic but no overly religious which is what we were looking for. He doesn't intrude on your evening (although we tried to get him to stay) and is professional to the core. He helped us every step of the way from the getting the license, setting up our ceremony, to picking up our license. Our family said he was the warmest officiant they had ever heard! Thanks Al, we appreciate you!

Perfect ceremony. Not too long and not too short. Super friendly!!

Al was great. I wish I had more contact with him prior to the service, but I am sure that was more on me than him. I was very busy, but every time I contacted him, he did email me back right away. We just didn't really speak until minutes before the ceremony, so it was a bit awkward when actually performing the ceremony. What he did say was beautiful and he was very calming as we were going along. He took care of everything afterwards and he is very affordable.

We went down to the courthouse on his day and he was polite, professional and gave a great service. Kind and entertaining service. Very knowledgeable and helpful with all the necessary paper work afterwards. If you plan in advance you can even have the service at his house out in pungo with a nice country side view.

don't GO TO COURTHOUSE. wILL PROBABLY HAVE A BETTER ATMOSPHERE!

Worst decision of my whole wedding experience!!! There are no words that can fully express how terrible he made me feel on my wedding day! My wedding day was chaos from the small house fire that morning to as small as forgetting the napkins. Every bride can relate to the average chaos of a typical wedding day. Out of all the wedding craziness, AL was the only part of my day that stressed me out. The only person I would remove and the only thing I would change. He belittled me on my wedding day. He made rude comments to my family while awaiting my arrival. He threatened to leave before the time our ceremony was suppose to start even though he was aware of the the small house fire delaying our arrival. He is willing to provide you with an dreadfully long speech but is not willing to wait for you to help your grandma walk or get a ride to your ceremony site. Needless to say, My grandparents did not get to be with us during our ceremony. He would have left. He was there to collect his money and go. If I had any idea this would be my experience with him I would have went to the courthouse to save myself $20, the stress, and the horrible memory of Al. Then enjoy my time celebrating with my family after. Please be cautious when selecting Al as your officiant! If you are having an outdoor ceremony during the summer he will not like it. If your ceremony location and reception location are more than a few steps away from each other he will complain. If you are an imperfect person as I am and may have any delay at all in your wedding day steer clear. He may leave you with no wedding ceremony at all.

Al was very rude, and all he seemed to care about was breezing through my wedding vows as quickly as possible. Save yourself the trouble and find somebody who actually seems to care about what they are getting paid to do.

I was terribly disappointed in Al Sokolic as a marriage officiant. When I called to schedule him and see if he would allow a friend of my daughter's to take them through their vows and he could be there to witness the vows and sign their marriage certificate, he was rude and arrogant, but he agreed. He asked how long the ceremony would be. I said no more than 30 minutes. (He got paid the same amount to just show up.) He said he would call the week before the wedding to make sure everything was still "a go". I called him about 5 days before the wedding and he was irritated - said that HE was planning to call ME 2 or 3 days later and that he was VERY busy. I apologized and said I would wait for his call. He snapped that this call would suffice. I said he could be anywhere he wanted during the ceremony - we would just need him to sign the papers immediately afterwards. He had offered that they should just come to his office and he would marry them before the ceremony, but I made it clear that I did NOT want that. I wanted to be present, along with friends and family, when they exchanged their vows. Instead, when he came to the wedding site, he marched himself into the room where my daughter was getting ready and pulled the groom in with him. I immediately moved the groom outside the door, saying they weren't supposed to be seeing each other before the ceremony. This made the groom feel horrible for the mistake, even though he wasn't at fault. Sokolik then asked each of them if their intent was to marry the other one, and when they each said that it was, he said, "I now pronounce you man and wife". My heart just fell. He had just married them - before the ceremony! He did what HE wanted to do and ignored our wishes. He might be fine if he can run the show, but when I wanted him to just be there to sign papers, he was not fine. He insisted on cash, too. Wonder why?