We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Rebekah Francis. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Rebekah below.

Alright, Rebekah thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. To kick things off, we’d love to hear about things you or your brand do that diverge from the industry standard

We are a wedding officiant team with a difference. We are open to all persons and are non-discriminatory. We truly allow all of our couples to be themselves with no judgement towards their wants on their special day. Why does this make a difference, we are not a one wedding script fits all. We do follow some industry standards; in regard to formatting of the ceremony with what works best with the flow etc. Our main focus is and always has been what is meaningful to the couple. How are you going to start off your marriage. It is an important day, as the beginning of your lifelong commitment. We want to celebrate it with you and your partner to be, family, friends and fur guests (cats, and dogs) if you would like. We try our best to create new traditions or incorporate old ones, if you choose to. Our focus is to make sure that you are incorporated into the ceremony and your day, is as you would like, as simple or intricate as you would like. Let us celebrate with you.

Rebekah, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

We are a small female team of wedding officiants. We celebrate love and enjoy being a part of your special day. Founded in 2018, we have continued to grow and adapt. We enjoy meeting couples from all backgrounds for that reason we ensure that they enjoy the moment; each ceremony is memorable yet meaningful. Let us celebrate you on this day.

All are welcome here. We love “love” and all are celebrated here. No love is the same, why should your ceremony be! We are non-discriminatory and accept all persons here. Feel free to give us a call to let us know how we can make your day memorable.

Some of our services that help to make your ceremony unique, are our vow writing services. We write custom vows. Not sure what to say? Or are you the strong silent type and need a little help? We help you put your emotions into words.

No detail is too small or big to be incorporated.

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

We care about our couples, to make sure that their day is special for them. Even on short notice we do our best to ask questions that ensure that your ceremony is meaningful for you and your partner. to craft your story, your love and life together or whatever you chose. It is special and important to our couples, as they are starting their life off together or continuing their journey and adding another milestone.

We are dependable. I cannot count on the number of times we have gotten calls for other officiants not showing up or showing up hours later than planned. We are a team which allows us to jump in should anything happens to out other team members, as well as other officiants.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

That the client is always right. This is not always the case. Sadly, in officiating weddings there is the risk of the ceremony starting late, but 2 hours after the start time. It is hard to be patient in the July, Savannah heat. We had a blended Indian Muslim – Christian wedding, for which the bride said, “Oh, this should be a perfect fit, as we are Indian and always show up late and we are on island time!”; to which I replied, “We start on time, especially to be considerate to other vendors and the venue.” After discussing the various cultural challenges, the bride and groom were facing, we all mutually agreed that we, the officiant will arrive an hour later than the guest arrival time to allow for all the late persons to be present for the ceremony. Only for the ceremony to still start an hour and a half later. Due to this incident, we enforce our late fee and encourage our couples to start and finish on time unless there is life threatening incident.

The reason being is that some photographers and vendors charge by the hour, often times leaving the couple with limited time to take pictures, eat or spend time at the venue after the ceremony. Even with a planner this ceremony still ran late and the lesson we learnt was always come prepared for just about anything and bring water and a fan during the summers. More importantly we learnt to be patient, different cultures have different expectations and now we know; never show up to an Indian wedding on time.

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