What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still,
to love!
- Victor Hugo -
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
- Sophocles -
About us and why we do this......
We look forward to meeting you and helping you plan your perfect day. Your
wedding day is a day you will always remember.. where you will be surrounded by all your friends and family and we hope you
will consider us friends by the time we perform your wedding ceremony.
So.....here is a little bit about us. Jeff and I have known each other since we were in high school on Whidbey Island, Wash. We both attended
college in Seattle, dated and became engaged but didn't end up getting married. We both went on to other marriages
and had families but kept in touch through reunions and friends. We reconnected in 2002 through his 30th reunion, began dating
and where married in 2004.
Over the years
I have planned many weddings and receptions and found one of the hardest parts was finding the perfect person to conduct
the ceremony. If you don't belong to a church most minister won't even talk to you (some are down right rude). So you find a local officiant but some don't want to travel far, many seem kinda stuffy, many are way
too religious for our taste, many require premarital counseling, most don't take much time going over the details
or won't allow for customized vows and most have only a few sample ceremonies to choose
from. They have all done this many times and
don't seem to understand you haven't.
My husband and I both
have other full time jobs but we wanted something extra that we could do together that would incorporate my
love of weddings, event planning and some travel. We decided to become ordained ministers/officiants through
the Universal Life Church so we could help couples get married the way they want too. We wanted to offer services that we
found lacking in most other officiants we had talked too.
We started
our business in 2006 and planned on doing 'maybe' 12-15 weddings a year for fun.....we did over 60 and turned away over 200
our first year!! We were nominated in 'The Best Of Western Washington' poll for best wedding coordinators in Seattle
our 1st year, we came in 7th!! That was pretty good considering we were so new at it. Since then
we have done well over four hundred weddings, including hosting several large weddings at our home.
In the spring of 2009 we found out our daughter was going to have a baby!! Since
she lives in Houston we packed up and moved to Texas! We are now the proud grandparents to little Aubrey and
have settled in to our new home in Houston.
houston, texas, houston, we do...I do's, weddings, officiants, jeff holmes, Marty holmes, wedding
officiant, houston wedding officiant, houston brides wedding officiant, wedding ceremonies, weddings, marriage, Katy,
texas, galveston, beach weddings, custom ceremony, houston officiants, marriage in houston, weddings clergy wedding officiant
houston, texas, 77095, we do...I Do's, clergy bridal consultant wedding officiant, Houston, Texas, wedding officiant, wedding
officiant wedding officiant wedding officiant bridal consultation wedding planner officiant, copperfield, houston, we
do i do'se do i do's we do i do's