Tallahassee Wedding Officiant Awarded 2017 WeddingWire Couples Choice Award

A Beautiful Wedding in Florida Tallahassee Honored For Excellence With 2017 WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Award®

WeddingWire, the leading global online marketplace for the wedding and event industry, announced A Beautiful Wedding in Florida Tallahassee as a winner of the esteemed 2017 WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards® for Wedding Officiant service in Tallahassee!

The Couples’ Choice Awards recognize the top five percent of wedding professionals on WeddingWire who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness, and professionalism. The prestigious awards are given to the top local wedding professionals across more than 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on their professional achievements from the previous year.

The WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards winners are determined solely based on reviews from real newlyweds and their experiences working with A Beautiful Wedding in Florida Tallahassee. Award-winning vendors are distinguished for the quality, quantity, consistency and timeliness of the reviews they have received from their past clients.

Christen’s review wrote, “Amanda was wonderful! She really made us comfortable during the ceremony and she helped us to overcome the little bumps in the road that we were met with. Overall, it was an incredible experience and I feel very fortunate to have had her there with us on the most wonderful day of our lives. Thank you so much!”

“The Couples’ Choice Awards’ ninth year features one of the most impressive groups of dedicated and acclaimed wedding professionals yet,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “It is our honor to work with high-caliber merchants, such as {Enter Your Business Name}, who not only make a couple’s big day possible, but also contribute to the more than 2.5 million U.S. reviews represented on WeddingWire. We congratulate all of this year’s winners on their achievements.”

As a Couples’ Choice Awards® winner, A Beautiful Wedding in Florida Tallahassee is highlighted on WeddingWire, which is comprised of more than 200,000 wedding professionals in the U.S.

A Beautiful Wedding in Florida Tallahassee is thrilled to be one of the top Wedding Officiant services in Tallahassee on WeddingWire. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. We truly value all of our clients and appreciate the positive feedback that helped us earn a 2017 WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Award.

For more information about A Beautiful Wedding in Florida Tallahassee, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at www.weddingwire.com/abeautifulweddinginfloridatallahassee

To learn more about the WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards®, please visit www.weddingwire.com/couples-choice-awards.

About WeddingWire, Inc.
WeddingWire, Inc. is the leading global online marketplace connecting consumers with event and creative professionals. Operating within a $200 billion industry, WeddingWire, Inc. hosts 10 million monthly unique users across its mobile and web platforms. Consumers around the world are able to read over 3 million vendor reviews and search, compare and book from a database of over 400,000 businesses globally. It provides these businesses the technology they need to serve their clients through advertising, marketing and business management tools such as websites, payment processing, invoicing and contracts. Founded in 2007, the WeddingWire portfolio of sites serves couples and businesses across 15 countries in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia, making it the worldwide leader in weddings with brands including Bodas.net, Casamentos.com.br, Matrimonio.com and more. The company employs more than 800 and maintains global headquarters in Washington, DC and international headquarters in Barcelona, Spain.

What is a Unity Sand Ceremony?

by Charmaine Doumanian News

What is a unity sand ceremony? It’s a way to participate in your wedding ceremony or vow renewal!

Unity sand ceremony setup for evening wedding.

Couple participation during the wedding ceremony has become increasingly popular. It’s a great way to break up the officiant speaking and symbolize the unifying of the couple during a religious or non religious wedding ceremony. One of the most popular ways we see couples participate in their wedding ceremony is with a unity sand ceremony. A unity sand ceremony is the pouring of sand from individual containers into a center container. The bride and groom blend their individual containers of sand into a center container symbolizing their inseparable union. The couple can use different colors of sand or the same color sand. There’s no right or wrong.

A unity sand ceremony is also a great way to include children in a wedding ceremony and/or a vow renewal ceremony. It means a lot to children of all ages to participate in the joining of their parent.

A unity sand ceremony is perfect for a vow renewal ceremony including kids, young or old. It represents the family that they have created and just like the blended sands they will never be separated.

Together the family will pour their indivu

Together the family pour their individual containers of sand into the center vase.

During the ceremony the officiant will announce that the couple has requested to participate in a unity sand ceremony. The officiant will explain about the unity sand ceremony and then ask the couple to take their individual containers of sand and pour them into the center container. If children are participating the officiant will request that they join the couple to pour their container of sand. As the sands are blended together in center container the independent individuals cease to exist. The grains of sand can never be separated in their individual containers and so will the marriage and family never to be separated.

“As you each hold your sand the separate containers of sand represent your lives to this moment; individual and unique. As you now combine your sand together, your lives also join together as one.”

Their are different types of kits that can be used for a sand ceremony. The sand ceremony kits include a center bottle to pour the sand into and individual bottles for each person participating. Many kits include the colored sand. Depending on how many are participating in ceremony additional colored sand may be needed. If the wedding is on the beach sand can even be used from the beach where wedding is taking place. Another kit that is quite popular is photo frame. Sand is poured on the outside of the frame and a memorable photograph can be placed in frame. Glass bottles can be engraved with names and dates. There are a lot of options and variations of the unity sand ceremony. Whatever is selected creates a nice keepsake souvenir to remember that special day.

A picture frame is a great way to create a keepsake from your wedding sand ceremony

Unity sand ceremony is perfect for a beach wedding. Sand from the beach where the wedding is can be used.

There are a lot of options for adding a unity sand ceremony to your wedding or vow renewal. If you want to have a unity sand ceremony in your wedding ceremony or vow renewal ceremony you’ll need:

1 small table with a clothe
Sand for each indiviual participating in the union
Containers for each individual participating in the union
1 center container to pour separate sand into

Have fun with your unity sand ceremony! We love hearing ideas and coming up with something new to this popular wedding tradition. Let us know if you have a creative spin on the unity sand ceremony.

Sand ceremony uses beach sand and shells to pour sand into the center container.

We Won WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards 2016

by Amanda Doumanian Reeves News

A Beautiful Wedding in Florida Tampa and A Beautiful Wedding in Florida Tallahassee Wins a WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Award® 2016!!!

WeddingWire, the leading global online wedding marketplace, named A Beautiful Wedding in Florida as a winner of the prestigious WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards® 2016 for Officiant Services in Tampa and Tallahassee Florida!

The WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards® 2016 recognizes the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism. The esteemed awards are given to the top local wedding vendors in more than 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding florists, based on their professional achievements from the previous year.

While many industry award winners are selected by the host organization, the WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards® winners are determined solely based on reviews from real newlyweds and their experiences working with A Beautiful Wedding in Florida. Award-winning vendors are distinguished for the quality, quantity, consistency and timeliness of the reviews they have received from their past clients.

“We are thrilled to celebrate such a high-caliber, committed group of professionals for the Couples’ Choice Awards’® eighth year,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “We are proud to continue to serve as the industry leader, with over 2.5 million consumer and peer reviews, and feature award-winning merchants such as A Beautiful Wedding in Florida who understands the impact reviews have on their successful businesses.”

As a Couples’ Choice Awards® winner, A Beautiful Wedding in Florida is highlighted within the WeddingWire Network, which is comprised of more than 400,000 wedding professionals globally.

A Beautiful Wedding in Florida is proud to be one of the top Officiant Services in Tampa and Tallahassee Florida in the WeddingWire Network. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. We value all of our clients and truly appreciate the positive feedback that helped us earn the WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards® 2016.

For more information about A Beautiful Wedding in Florida, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at www.weddingwire.com/abeautifulweddinginfloridatampa
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To learn more about the Couples’ Choice Awards®, please visit www.weddingwire.com/couples-choice-awards.

Beautiful Tallahassee Wedding Ceremony at the Southwood House

by Amanda Doumanian Reeves News

Last Saturday, I had the honor of officiating Kelly and Ayers beautiful Tallahassee wedding ceremony at the Southwood House.

The ceremony started at 11am and was held under the oaks trees so it wasn’t too hot. Pretty white chairs were setup in the grass. The oak trees with hanging Spanish Moss provide so much natural beauty there was no need for any decorations.

Kelly and Ayers are a very easy-going loving couple. Kelly wore a white knee lengthy spaghetti strap dress and Ayers wore khaki pants and a Tommy Bahamas type shirt. Kelly was walked down the aisle by her son then I officiated their special ceremony. Kelly and Ayers were very excited that I was open to personalizing their wedding ceremony. It was a beautiful ceremony that included 2 bible readings and messages reminding all that love is the foundation of a strong relationship.

After the ceremony everyone was going to gather inside the Southwood House for a lunch reception.

Kelly and Ayer’s had a Beautiful Tallahassee Wedding Ceremony at the Southwood House followed by a reception inside this historic house.

Sweet and simple decorations for the reception.

Lunch wedding reception at the Southwood House in Tallahassee

A few days after the ceremony Kelly sent me a very touching emailing:

Thank you very much. You did a great job and we really appreciate you letting us write the ceremony & vows that we wanted. Several of our friends & family members commented on how well everything went. I had looked at your website and was familiar with you prior to meeting Jessica. She did recommend you to us when she found out that we were looking for someone to officiate our wedding. We actually got our marriage license in the mail yesterday. Thank you for doing such a wonderful job in personalizing our wedding to fit us. Would happily recommend you to anyone seeking a wedding officiant.

Me with the newlyweds!

University Center Club Wedding Ceremony Tallahassee

by Amanda Doumanian Reeves Music

I love all things wedding; especially wedding ceremonies. I also love Florida State University. So when Ryan and Danielle asked me to officiate their University Center Club Wedding Ceremony Tallahassee overlooking the Florida State University stadium, I was SUPER excited!!!

Ryan and Danielle are a great couple and were so much fun to work with. We decided to incorporate their fun young loving personalities into their wedding ceremony. Danielle and Ryan both graduated from FSU so they were really excited to have a University Center Club Wedding Ceremony Tallahassee.

Legally married and SO excited!

The reception was held inside the University Center Club and the ceremony was outside on the patio. The ceremony chairs were placed so guests looked out onto the Tallahassee skyline and behind them was the football field. It was a really neat way to incorporate their love for FSU and Tallahassee into the wedding and ceremony.

View of the FSU football field

Guests view during Ryan and Danielle’s University Center Club Wedding Ceremony Tallahassee

Danielle’s Dad walked her down the aisle. Being that their wedding was Mother’s Day, May 10, I started the ceremony started off with a welcome then a surprise thank you to their Mom’s. They presented them each with a rose and both Mom’s were so surprised and touched! The ceremony continued on with a little story about Danielle and Ryan’s love and adventure in life which I segwayed into a unity beer ceremony. I had seen the unity beer ceremony online but had never had a couple want to do so I was really excited that Ryan and Danielle wanted to incorporate this into their ceremony. While backpacking through Europe they had a drink where with half Sprite and half beer so this is what we did for their unity beer ceremony.

Unity beer ceremony

Danielle’s bridesmaids wore black dress with shoes that match the flowers they held.

After the ceremony, guests went inside UCC to get out of the heat and family and bridal party went to take pictures outside the stadium.

Me getting an FSU picture with the newly weds!

I always encourage couples to have fun with their wedding ceremony and it makes me so happy when a couple like Danielle and Ryan truly do have fun and enjoy the ceremony.

Go Seminoles!!

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