Couple Comments

Dear Reverend Kris,

Living out of town was a concern for us in being able to find the right person in Rochester to officiate our ceremony. As first encounters go, our first meeting with you was all the indication we needed to know that we had chosen the right person to marry us. Your warmth and approachability soothed our nerves, and you helped us to think about the magnitude and importance of the future we were creating together. Reflecting on that momentous day in our lives, we want to thank you for facilitating the ceremony of our union. It was such a beautiful day, and we will always be thankful for your presence.

Sincerely,
Brad and Erica Morse

Rev Kris,
We cannot thank you enough for our ceremony. It was absolutely perfect. The ceremony truly encompassed and demonstrated our love for each other. It was so very personal and it allowed us to share our story with our closest friends and family. The ceremony itself was very unique and so many different people told us that it was a beautiful and personal ceremony, unlike something that they have ever seen before our wedding. We are so thankful that you decided to be part of our special day with us. We feel truly blessed and are so very thankful!
With love,

Chrystal & Greg Corbett

Rev Kris,

We simply can't thank you enough for the lovely and wonderful service you gave and all the helpful advice you offered during the planning process. When we began planning the wedding, the most important thing to us was to have something that was not cookie-cutter, but an honest and open expression of our feelings and love. The whole ceremony was truly exactly that for us, in large part due to your delivery and tone and presence. Your services really are a beautiful memory of our day! So many of our friends and families had the nicest things to say about you, they remarked that your style was so inviting and well stated, quite professional yet wholly warm. It was especially meaningful to have your open- mindedness to let us work with our own writings. I know when I send the video to my overseas relatives they will be touched to see the Tea Ceremony and our Chinese culture honered in such a simple and classy way!

Char and James

Rev. Kris,
Thank you so much for all you help with our ceremony. It was all we ever dreamed of and we could not have done it without all your help and suggestions. We really appreciate everything. Everyone kept commenting on how beautiful the ceremony was. It wasn't even hard planning long distance from North Carolina thanks to email and phone! I also need to thank you for going out of your way to go home and get the lamp and flashlight when the light kept going out in the dressing room while I was getting ready!
If we had to do it all over again we wouldn't change a thing! Thank you for helping us on the most memorable day of our lives! We greatly appreciate all you did! The website looks great! Thanks.

Mr & Mrs.Dache

Brian and I can hardly express our gratitude for everything Reverend Kris did to make our wedding day so incredibly unique, personal, beautiful, spiritual and even incredibly calm. We were coming in from out of town the Friday before the wedding, so most of our planning was over emails and the telephone—and it was reassuringly comfortable from the beginning. All we really knew was that we wanted our day to express our feelings, and that we had to make sure that our ceremony was heartfelt and special for my own artistic, multi-ethnic and fully embracing type of spirituality, my fiancé's almost agnostic sensibilities, and we wanted to be inclusive and respectful of his family’s very traditional Southern Baptist beliefs as well. That might sound tough, but Reverend Kris can perform any one of those ceremonies, or in our case do all of them at the same time! We didn’t have time or want to start from scratch but we wanted to be unique. We were able to use the guidance from her personal emails to us, and then use her website which made it simple to come up with the right format where we picked among her suggestions, personalized it, and finished the whole ceremony within one night. It felt so right that we teared up when we first read it.

On the actual wedding day we arrived at the site so very nervous, but she had our music playing and she said all the right things to get us calm and then keep us calm and going along with the current of the day. She guided us through our ceremony at the same time that she performed it almost as if she’d done a million just like it… and so had we. She was a wonderful presence and a real resource from start to finish. We really felt like our special wedding day was very lucky and blessed and all of our dear family and friends experienced a lot more than any of us hoped for. Thank you so much,

Maria and Brian
June 26, 2006

We were so excited to find Kris to do perform our ceremony, and it was even better than we expected. We were able to create a very personal ceremony that reflected who we are and combined tradition with fun. Kris had many wonderful suggestions, and she helped us pull together all the things we wanted to include and made the ceremony cohesive. She even took our last minute suggestion to add something fun to the ceremony, and made it work perfectly. Our friends and family were all impressed, and we felt very lucky to have put together such a beautiful ceremony in such a short period of time. We could not have done it without you Kris! Many, many thanks!

Rob and Kara Walsh

Reverend Kris,
Thank you so much for making our wedding ceremony so special. Creating our own ceremony allowed us to express our love for each other in a unique and loving way, that we will never forget. Your flexibility and sense of humor during the rehearsal and ceremony was great, especially when the unity candles wouldn't stay lit. We received many complements on how beautiful the ceremony was and what a wonderful job you did! We are very grateful that you were able to be a part of one of the best and most memorable days of our lives.

Sincerely,

Bill & Jennifer Lombard

Hi Kris,

This thank you has been a long time coming, but it is meant as sincerely now as it was on the day you officiated at our wedding. We appreciate the time you took to get to know us. Your knowledge of us, and the suggestions you made helped make the ceremony that Al and I wanted come to pass. We will not forget how you read our vows. You captured the meaning of each one and read it the way we wrote them, from our hearts. Thank you, again, for helping to make our wedding day one Al and I will remember.

Sincerely,

Al and Anne Ormiston

Kris,

Brian and I would just like to thank you for letting us do our own thing. It was very important to us to feel that the things we wanted to say the most, were said. You helped us get our thoughts down. We were also very nervous to speak in front of so many people and you let us know it was ok to be a little nervous. I really appreciated how easy you were to talk to and how wonderful you were to work with. I also would really like to thank you for reminding us that our ceremony was about no one else but us, and also reminding me to breathe when I was beginning to become a little overwhelmed with all the wedding plans. Over all I believe that our wedding was a success because Brian, Morgan and I were all very confident and comfortable with the care you provided. You were much more than an officiant, you really became a friend. Thank you so much, lots of love.

The Cherrone Family
Kristy, Brian and Morgan

Kris,
Over the years of becoming closer friends, you've managed to inspire me in many different ways. When we met seven years ago I never imagined that you would perform my wedding ceremony. You have made this a memorable and special day for both of us. Bruce and I appreciate the time you spent working on our ceremony to accommodate our wants and needs. We were grateful for the suggestions you added when we were usure of our choices. Your creative writing tied together our Scripture selections, making our wedding ceremony perfect from beginning to end.Thank you so much for all your help, your patience, your kindness, and a beautiful ceremony that we will always remember. But most of all, thank you for being our friend.

Love Always,

Bruce and LeAnna Meyers

Dear Reverend Kris,
I really wanted you to know how much we appreciated your presence on your wedding day. You were so calm, so positive, and so supportive, that every time I got nervous I felt like if I looked at you, I instantly felt better. We have received many, many compliments on both the ceremony itself and on you specifically - people said things like they sometimes tune out during wedding ceremonies but that at ours they listened to every single word, that it was the most beautiful ceremony they'd ever been to, and that they felt it was a true commitment ceremony. We feel so lucky to have had you as our officiant.

Thank you again and feel better soon.

Sincerely,

Amanda and Matt

Dean and I wanted to thank you so much for such an absolutely storybook ceremony. I think between the three of us (and God giving us that absolutely perfect fall day and much more) we really put together a ceremony that expressed mine and Dean’s feelings for each other and what it all means to us in our life/past, present and future. And we did just that and touched so many others too! We wanted to thank you for your own personal touches and the way you gave the ceremony—it was so beautiful and meaningful. We have received so many “thank yous” from people who said they took so much away from our ceremony. We were told by many that it was such a unique and eye opening ceremony and that they were surprised at their own thoughts and emotions during the ceremony. (I don’t think there was a dry eye in the area!) Annnnddd could you believe my “Mr. Macho Man” – he stole my tears from me! We couldn’t have done it without you—again, thank you so much.

Dean and June Birrittella

July 2004
Dear Rev. Kris,

We are sending our heartfelt thanks for a job well done on our wedding ceremony. Finding what we were looking for in an officiant was a discouraging “task” for us. Our prayers were answered when we met you. With your warm personality and bright smile we felt an immediate connection.You were personable, sincere, honest, professional, easy to talk to, creative, dependable and so the list goes on. We loved that we were able to write our own ceremony (especially because our unique situation). You were helpful with suggestions and sharing material. You were there all the time to guide us, and your creativity put the finishing touch on things. We appreciate you taking the time to familiarize yourself with our situation and the importance of what we wanted incorporated into our ceremony.

At rehearsal and on the wedding day, you took the time to meet and interact with our families and friends. Simply put, you made one Bride very happy, and kept one Groom from fainting.We look forward to staying in touch with you. When we look back at our wedding, we think of you and how we were blessed with an Angel.

With our love and blessings,

Lisa and Gary Chatfield

Hi Rev Kris!

We really wanted to thank you for such an absolutely wonderful ceremony on July 11th at Casa Larga. It was everything that we had hoped for and more. We received numerous compliments about the entire wedding, but particularly the ceremony. We heard compliments about how personalized the ceremony was, saying our vows at the same time, the rose exchange, as well as the birds. The ceremony is something that we will cherish forever. In fact, we already have our roses from the rose exchange preserved and displayed in our living room. I have attached just a few pictures from the wedding. I thoroughly enjoy the one from the ceremony with the rays of sun shining down on us....that doesn't happen at every wedding! Thanks again so much for everything. You helped to make an incredibly special day in our lives a truly memorable and heart felt one.

Cordially,
Chris and Brooke Elnicky

Good Morning Reverend Kris-

We sincerely apologize that it has taken us over a year to send you these photos. It is amazing how fast the time goes and how incredible our first year together has been. So much so, that we welcomed our little daughter, Alana into the world on August 22.

Over a year latter people are still talking about our wedding and what folks have said is "the best" ceremony they have ever seen. We are so grateful to have met you and even luckier to have had you perform the ceremony for our marriage. It was remarkable !!!!

Thank you again -

John, Adrienne and Alana Turbeville

We knew that the search for an officiant for our wedding ceremony was over the first time we met Rev.Kris. Her professionalism impressed us and her open-mindedness and calm demeanor put us at ease. We knew she would be just the person to marry us.During the wedding planning process, Rev. Kris helped us create a ceremony that reflected our beliefs, hopes and dreams. Always responsive to our questions and requests, she made the creation of our ceremony an enjoyable experience. Our friends and family were full of compliments for our officiant after meeting her at our wedding rehearsal, and the compliments continued after the ceremony itself. We couldn't be happier with the special role Rev. Kris played in our wedding and wouldn't

hesitate to recommend her to anyone!

Lea and Jason Nordhaus

Dear Rev. Kris,
It is with much gratitude that I write this note to you.After Mike proposed and we began to think about what a wedding meant to both of us, we decided that we wanted the focal point of our wedding to be the words spoken during the ceremony. It is then, by fate, that we stumbled upon your services. The words were important to us because we wanted to convey to our friends and family what marriage meant toboth of us. A traditional ceremony would just not do. Your ability to take our feeling and sentiment and turn it into our dream was a true gift.

Mike’s mother and step-father were so moved by the ceremony that afterwards they pulled you aside and asked you to renew their vows right there on the spot. With out the slightest hesitation you agreed. Watching them renew their commitment on the same day we declared ours is one of our most treasured memories from the day.

Thank You so much for allowing us to express our true feeling and for being so willing to go with the flow of the day. Your contribution to our special day is greatly appreciated.

Mike and Josie Kozak

Reverend Kris,

I just wanted to thank you for helping us to create such a beautiful wedding ceremony. We were looking for something that was unique, and also a true reflection of our love.

We wanted something that spoke from our hearts. I can't tell you how many people told us that it was the most beautiful ceremony they had ever attended. I don't think there was a dry eye in the room!

Thank you again for being a part of our day and helping us to make it perfect.

Best Wishes,

Chris and Amy Brand