The Copper Wedding is suitable for Micro-Weddings involving about twenty or fewer people. This package also works well for planning ceremonies from two to three weeks after signing the agreement. Planning begins with a questionnaire and ends a day or two before your wedding with a final walk-through over Zoom.
Your step-by-step plan includes:
- At least one consultation before your wedding
- Designing a Standard Ceremony with limited customization, and
- Certificate preparation.
Consultations
I use Zoom for all of our planning sessions. For a Copper package, we schedule at least one meeting to finalize the details of the wedding. We may schedule additional appointments as required to discuss challenges and ensure I understand your requirements. During the final meeting, we walk through the ceremony and certificate preparation details in a virtual “rehearsal” and assure you have a valid wedding license packet.
Micro-Wedding Ceremony Design
You know I offer three ceremony editing levels if you have seen the A La Carte page. The Standard Ceremony, included with the Copper and Bronze packages, offers up to three hours of editing and a complete, step-by-step process to deliver a ceremony that makes your day memorable.
The Micro-Wedding Design Process
The steps for the design process look like this:
- Template and Script Design Questionnaire.
- First Draft and Value-Added Options Form.
- Final Draft and Consultation.
- Your Wedding Day!
Template and Design Script
Shortly after you sign our agreement, I will email a questionnaire to capture the look and feel of your wedding service. The link to that form includes a sample template of the service and booklets containing readings and blessings. You’ll have a few days to answer the questionnaire and tell me what readings from the pamphlets to include. Once I receive your answers, I will edit your first draft.
Your First Draft
When the first draft is ready, I will email it to you. While completing the form, you may have decided on an optional, value-added ceremony element. If that’s the case, I will send links to additional planning forms to capture that information. We can schedule a Zoom meeting to clarify those details if there are enough “loose ends” to discuss. With your feedback in hand, I will edit the final draft of your ceremony.
Your Final Draft
By this time, the final draft of your ceremony is nearly complete. I edit the script to ensure we miss no detail, and so each section smoothly flows into the next. Just a couple of days before your wedding, I send you the final draft, and we schedule a walk-through, a virtual rehearsal to guarantee that your vision comes to life!
Certificate Preparation
Certificate preparation is another step-by-step piece of getting ready for marriage. Getting a license and “making it legal” is covered in these steps:
- Getting a valid license,
- Explaining the license and certificate paperwork provided by the county,
- Preparing and signing your certificate
- Mailing the completed certificate to the county recorder, and
- Follow up to ensure you get your copies.
Getting Your License
Certificate preparation begins when our agreement starts. I provide information to help you get a valid state Marriage License and certificate. It’s up to you to get it from the county office, and I’ll let you know when it is time to apply.
Depending on which county in Washing