Should I tip my wedding officiant?

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Bill Cochran
Say "I Do" Your Way
www.sayidoyourway.com  
301-926-2671

Rev. Bill Cochran is the owner of Say “I Do” Your Way. In this company, Bill & his wife Joyce offer their services as wedding officiants and pre-marriage Counselors.  They have been working with couples for the past thirty-nine years and have conducted hundreds of weddings. Bill also serves as a trainer for Life Innovations certification of counselors and clergy in the Metro Washington, DC/Maryland/Virginia area. His extensive background in marriage and pre-marriage counseling has prepared hundreds of couples to navigate the tough issues of relationship building.

Over the years, Bill & Joyce have built an exciting and fulfilling marriage relationship. Thus they see weddings as the greatest event in life. Helping other couples to share the same positive experience they enjoy in marriage is their primary goal. They LOVE weddings!

Should I tip my wedding officiant?

Reverend Bill Cochran of Say “I Do” Your Way gives pointers on how to choose an officiant for your wedding ceremony. His forty years of officiating weddings will heolp you feel confident as you prepare to interview your prospective officiant.

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Host: Should I tip my wedding officiant? Bill Cochran: That would be nice, but you don't have to. Now there is different guidelines you will find online talking about how much to tip each one of the vendors and quite a few do, but I never go to a wedding thinking, Oh, I am going to get a tip here. I have tried to charge a price that I feel is reasonable and fair and that's what I plan to get. The reasons maybe to tip a wedding officiant would be you are really, really impressed with his or her work with you and you want to do an extra thank you and it's always appreciated but, expected? Not really. Maybe that's a nice thing about a tip.

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