How much are you paying/paid for a officiant/justice of the peace?

We are paying $200 for ours...that includes premarital counseling (6 Sessions), the "chruch rental", programs (chruch provids these and we can have them made the way we want to), and a 2 hour long rehearsal the day before. We have 5 BMs and 5 GM (including MOH and BM).

My officiant is $300 and that includes the rehearsal, plus he files the marriage license after the ceremony. He's only one town over so not much travelling required.

I paid $150 for rehearsal and ceremony. I tipped him $50, so $200 total and we met with him once before everything.

$200 ... quick ceremony 20 - 25 min. .... Welcome, consent, address, vows, exchange ring, blessing, pronouncement, kiss....

100 guests. No rehearsal. MOH, 1bm, Best, 1 gm, 2 flowergirls

and he files the paperwork.

Ours is not charging us anything but I was planning on giving him $300. We are getting pre-marital counseling with books to read and the use of the church for free.

Well, when pricing out ours she would of travelled 200 km there and back, no rehersal and it was going to be around 300. Thankfully, we got my grandpa appointed for the day, for free, and he did a wonderful, legal, ceremony. First one ever, I felt so special having my Grandpa do it, and he even asked f he could add a reading at the the end he found.

Oh, wedding party, 6 adults including me and DH, then 5 kids, FG's & RB's

We are paying for his round of golf at a very sheeshee golf course. Of course he is my MOH husband and my current pastor, so I am sure we will get him something else too, but he is using our wedding (which he would have come to anyway as a guest if he weren't marrying us) as a reason to have a golf vacation. :o)

We are paying our officiant $100, and that includes the counseling. She is really cheap for the area though. The average prices I have seen were $250-400. Of course, some areas are higher.

Wow I feel screwed. We had to pay ours a "suggested donation" of $900 and that doesn't include any counseling and he won't even show up to the rehearsal. Oh well. These Southern California prices are killing me!

Mine was $450 for just the ceremony. I think it varies greatly according to where you live. (I am an East Coast girl.)

Mine is $100 normally $200 but I got a discount for sending him other brides.

Wow I think mine is the most expensive. haha we paid 550 for our wedding officiant. That includes rehearsal, writing the programs, wedding (he does not stay to eat or anything), getting information and scheduling appts for applying for the marriage licenses, meeting with us once before the wedding, writing a "love story" ceremony and rituals. Plus he is also an event coordinator so he contacts the DJ, photographer, ceremony hall to make sure everything is set and they are all on the same page with what I need and what he will need them to do (such as stand where to get the best picture, to start and stop playing the ceremony music for his speaking parts, etc).

Ours was $475 for the ceremony and meetings before it to plan, the ceremony is customizable to whatever we like to add, he files the paper work after we get married and if we want he can play the guitar too (for an extra $100) It depends where you live I am in NJ and the prices range anywhere from $300 up.

I know its pricey but I do not feel ripped off, I want my ceremony to be memorable!!!

We're paying $475 for the wedding and rehearsal. Considering how great she is, I think that's perfect. I felt really comfortable when we met with her and I think she's going to make our day really nice, classy and special.

We looked at several churches since neither one of is a memeber of a church any more. Their prices were CRAZY! On average I would say they were $1000. I found one that was $600 but you had to jump through hoops. Also we were not allowed to live togeher. The most expensive that we looked at was $1700.

We ended up going with a chapel for $625. That included the space for an 1.5 hours, an officiant for $150, rehersal for $50 and we have to pay $25 to bring in our own photographer. The chapel is already decorated and they provide the music or will play a cd if we want.

Where I live a notary is allowed to perform the ceremony... so we're having a close friend (who's a notary and has done a few weddings) marry us as a wedding gift. We will do a rehearsal the day before. I plan on giving him a gift to thank him.

Our Ceremony Venue is $1,100 total, and that includes the $150 tip for the officiant. The church has a Chapel and a Sanctuary in it, and we will be having ours in the Chapel since we are having 200 guests. We have an hour for rehearsal the day before. and not only is the church beautiful, it's right down the street from our reception venue...another reason why we picked that church.

$375 for ceremony, multiple phone calls, and one in person meeting. And we'll probably tip him $50.

My Uncle is my officiant so nothing! I did buy him a nice watch thou..