Please scroll down to the bottom of this page to see photos of some of our weddings. 
Here's a 3 minute YouTube video of some of our weddings and photos we put together:

Affordable Wedding Ministers / Officiants
in Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego and Riverside Counties, California

 E-mail: WeddingsbyTerri@cox.net, Terri's cell 949-697-2246
 

We are non-denominational ordained ministers / Officiants performing wedding ceremonies according to YOUR WISHES.   Your wedding should be HAPPY CELEBRATION with lots of laughing, hugging, kissing and champagne!  We are here to marry you and to record the marriage license at the County Recorders Office for you.

My name is Terri Lange.  Mark Linzmeier and I have been married since 1985 and have four tall, beautiful children who are all "in the bizness" with us working as officiants, photographers and videographers.

OFFICIANT PRICING
Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego and Riverside Counties $275
plus a $50 travel fee if we have to travel over an hour from Dana Point to your ceremony
 $25 discount for Active Military, or $50 discount for Monday-Thursday weddings

Click HERE to choose your Officiant. 

For Photography, click on www.PhotographyByML.com (this site is a work in progress) or www.MoNNNNica.com (Monica's old web-site) to view sample wedding albums.  Monica and I have each photographed well over 150 weddings).  My photography web-site is www.TeRRRi.com.  Click HERE to see photo collages of some of our weddings!

If you have more than 20 or 30 guests attending your wedding, we will provide a PA System (at no extra charge), which we'll use with a wireless microphone during your ceremony.  You are  welcome to plug your iPod into the PA System to play some love songs and a "bridal march" if you're not having a live musician. 

If you'd like us to take care of the music before, during, and after your ceremony (with your choice of music), we'll put together a playlist on our iPod for an extra $50.

Click HERE for a list of local live musicians and other services that we recommend for wedding ceremonies.

Call me on my cell at 949-697-2246, or drop me an e-mail at: WeddingsbyTerri@cox.net  (I live on my e-mail). 

We have a Wedding Ceremony Template (it's a Word document) that helps with planning your ceremony.  You can customize your ceremony however you like.  The only "rule" is that everything that is said at your wedding should make you happy and speak to your heart. 

We love to meet with you and sit down and go over your ceremony at our office (it's our boat) in the Dana Point Marina, but if you're crazy busy and can't schedule the time, we can have a SKYPE videocam face-to-face meeting on the computer, or go over your ceremony on a conference call.  These days, Mark and I talk to our kids living in Europe and New York City on Gmail Videochat - it's marvelous!

Based on the hundreds of weddings we've officiated, click HERE to see a hodgepodge list of what works and what doesn't work at wedding ceremonies!

WANT TO GET MARRIED BUT DON'T KNOW WHERE?
 Click HERE for some lovely venues to get married in Orange County. 
Click HERE to see photos of some of the local beaches and parks in Laguna Beach and Dana Point.  Every beach has both good and bad points - some are affected by the tides, others are too crowded with tourists, some beaches don't face the sunset, some beaches don't "allow" weddings, and the prettiest beaches may have too many stairs for your grandma.

I need to post a new family photo - this one is 3 years old!

 Your Wedding Team from Left to Right
John, Wedding Officiant and Videograper www.JohNNN.com
 Matthew, Wedding Officiant in Brooklyn and NYC, New York www.WeddingsbyMatthew.com
 Terri, Wedding Officiant and Photography www.TeRRRi.com
 Mark, Wedding Officiant
Monica, Wedding Photography www.MoNNNNica.com (she's in France until August, 2011)
Juliet, "backup" Photographer, Videographer, Decorator, etc.

Clerk-Recorder location map

MARRIAGE LICENSE INFORMATION

Note: The different County Clerk's offices are open and closed at odd times, so check their office hours before you go.  There is an office in San Diego that's open on Saturday mornings, and I know the downtown Riverside office is now closed on Fridays.  Also, the counties have a weird new rule where you must either go to their office in person, or have the request form (for a certified copy of your marriage license) notarized - so if they offer it, pre-order your certified copy at the time you pick up your marriage license.

Click for marriage license information in Orange County and to fill out the application on-line.  The two of you will must go in person to the County Clerk's office and take your drivers licenses.  You can apply for your license at the Old County Courthouse on the corner of Broadway and Civic Center Drive in Santa Ana (it's the big old red building pictured at right), or you can go to the Laguna Hills Civic Center on El Toro Road in Laguna Hills.  If you go to the Old County Courthouse, be sure to take an extra 15 minutes to go upstairs and see the historical courtroom, jury room, recorders room, and judges chambers that are on display and don't forget to feed the meter -  I got a $47 parking ticket there.  If you want to talk to a human at the County Clerk's Marriage License Office, call 714-834-2500 between 8am 4:30pm, press 6 for an operator, and ask to talk to a live person in Marriage Licenses.  Click HERE to see locations and hours.

Note:  They're having furlough days in some of these counties.  Check to make sure the office is open before you drive there.

Click for marriage licenses in Los Angeles County.  The Los Angeles County Clerk's department is really slow.  They need 6-8 weeks to "record" your marriage license and send you a certified copy, so if you need a Certified Copy of your marriage license quickly, you should drive down to Santa Ana in Orange County and get your license there - Orange County takes just two weeks to send your copy.  Also, Los Angeles charges about $25 more for a license than the other counties, and (frosting on your cake) they're extremely rude to you at the Norwalk office with long wait times.

Click for marriage license in San Diego County
Click for marriage license in Riverside County. 

If you pick up a "confidential marriage license", you MUST get married in the county where you obtained the license.  However, if you absolutely can NOT get to your local clerk's office on a weekday, you can make an appointment to pick up your marriage license in San Diego at the Kearney Mesa office on a Saturday, between 9am-1pm (call first - county cutbacks may have stopped Saturday hours).



 


Mark Linzmeier and Terri Lange.  We've been married 26 years

I often repeat this at weddings, but my favorite thing about being married is having my own person.  He's mine (and I'm his), and we'll always be there for each other, come what may.  That, for me, is what marriage is about.

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR ENGAGEMENT!

RESERVATIONS & DEPOSIT
To reserve your Wedding Officiant, please check with Terri at e-mail: WeddingsbyTerri@cox.net, or call my cell at 949-697-2246, to make sure we're available for your date and time (let me know who you prefer). 
Then mail a $100 deposit check* with your event name and date on it to Terri Linzmeier, 33421 Nottingham Way, #B, Dana Point, CA 92629

Or pay with a credit card, a debit card, or Paypal at the link below (please add on a 3% service charge - that's what Paypal charges us)

*Because we book weddings so far in advance, your deposit is not refundable if you cancel within 60 days of your ceremony, however, I'm happy to reschedule the date and/or time if our schedule permits


Click HERE to view a 3 minute video slideshow (it's a WAVE file) of some of our weddings. 
This is the same YouTube Video posted above, but in a media format.

CLICK HERE FOR: INFORMATION ON MEMORIAL SERVICES

CLICK HERE FOR: LINKS TO WEDDING AFFILIATES
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