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Ordained minister to perform weddings, traditional and nontraditional where you want, how you want and when you want in the Quad Cities area, Iowa/Illinois. I have services available or will work with you in making your day special. Write your own vows or use some I have prepared. This is your day so lets make it special. I am very reliable and have a lot of experience.

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Reviews of Reverend Sheila Rae

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User1561347 Sent on 03/18/2014
5 out of 5 rating
Sheila did our service last minute. Our officiant cancelled with only a couple weeks until our wedding. She stepped up quickly and did such a wonderful job! I would recommend her to anyone! Very professional, out going, thoughtful and great with words!
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Daniella Sent on 11/05/2017
0.5 out of 5 rating
We met with Sheila and she was very pleasant. The three of us had went through what we wanted in the ceremony and what we didn't want. We discussed with her that our wedding was an intimate one and that we would not be needing a rehearsal dinner nor a rehearsal ceremony. We
asked her to keep our ceremony simple and that we would be writing our own vows. She appeared to be agreeable to this information. My husband had then asked if she was unable to show on the day of our wedding if there was someone to take her place. She had stated that she had a back up, but she had only ever needed to use them once. We had then gone over our personalized contract with her in which she had signed. We gave her a copy and stated we would see her at the wedding.

On the day of our wedding:
As is most weddings, it's pretty busy and full of heightened emotions. As the bride there was plenty I still had to complete to be ready to walk down the aisle. However, my husband and I were ready (and on time mind you) but we're waiting on our officiant Sheila Rae. It's incredibly unprofessional for an entire wedding to be waiting for the officiant to arrive. Yet, being the reasonably kind woman I am, I gave her a few minutes to be late since it was storming on our wedding day. After a few minutes passed I started to worry. My MOH and the venue scrambled to find an officiant at such short notice. My MOH finally got in touch with Sheila Rae and Sheila stated, "Oh, I thought they didn't need me since we hadn't spoke since the appointment and they didn't have a rehearsal dinner." Mind you we signed a contract and agreed she would officiate the wedding. She then told my MOH that she can be there as soon as possible. By this point the venue had already found an officiant and my MOH told her not to bother. This woman is unprofessional and should not be an officiant if this is what she deems professional.
Our rating for this officiant is a zero out of 5 stars
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Rachel Sent on 10/08/2014
Sheila was difficult to work with while we planned the wedding. She waited until 2 weeks before the wedding to send me the draft of the ceremony, which we had been led to believe she would write herself. However, a quick internet search led us to the readings that she was passing off as her own. The parts that were obviously her own words were not what we had discussed during our meeting. We ended up rewriting things the week before the wedding so all she had to do was read. But, even with a date and time confirmation one week before the wedding, she didn't show up for the rehearsal. My mom called her from the rehearsal while our family and friends stood around waiting, but Sheila was getting her hair done. She had "just forgotten." I received a text from her later during the rehearsal dinner asking if she should show up to the wedding. Needless to say, we spent our rehearsal dinner finding a different officiant!
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