I have performed many wedding ceremonies at all kinds of wedding venues in Southern California and I have seen what works and what fails to provide the effect that the bride and groom intended. I’ll check in once in a while and offer you my perspective of wedding ideas.

By clicking to the right area that says “Categories”, click on category of Wedding Ideas to get to my current wedding tidbit.

Many people I talk to think that the Confidential Marriage License is not a valid license, but that is not the case. The only thing that a Confidential Marriage License does it protect your marriage license information from public view. As it is right now, ANYONE can view your personal information on a Public Marriage License and the county has the ability to sell that information to database companies.

Go to my marriage license page on my main website and view what information that someone would get ahold of if you apply for a Public Marriage License. I highly recommend a Confidential Marriage License because in this day and age of identity theft and telemarketing I believe it is very important to make your personal information as private as possible. Don’t you?

I can issue a Confidential Marriage License to you if your wedding takes place in Los Angeles County and you attest that you live together as I am an authorized agent of the county and I can deliver that marriage license to you. Give me a call.

Chris Robinson, Officiant Guy

Chris Robinson is the Officiant Guy in Los Angeles, California. He is a non-denominational wedding minister, an attorney and a notary. He also has other wedding ministers on call to help couples in need of an officiant. The combination makes him a very reliable wedding professional.

He officiates wedding ceremonies in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Chris is specially authorized by Los Angeles county to issue confidential marriage licenses, which is the kind of marriage license that protects your personal information from the general public. Since he can issue the license on the spot, he helps many people to elope and get married easily.

Chris is a calm influence on a hectic wedding which makes him very popular. He is a frequent TV guest because his manner is very smooth and sophisticated.

Chris is a father of 3 young children, and has been married for 16 years.

Get more information on the wedding officiants helpful website at http://www.officiantguy.com/

This is a photo taken from my phone of the line I usually encounter at the Los Angeles County Clerk's Office.

It’s not an exciting place, but it’s a necessary one. If you are having a Southern California wedding then you need a marriage license first before you get married so obtaining a marriage license is necessary either at the County Clerk’s Office or through one of the few specially trained notaries available, such as myself.

There are only eight County Clerk’s offices in Los Angeles and over 10 million people living here. And all but one office closes at 3 pm. The other one stays open until 4 pm. Do the math and you can imagine what I come across when I make the trip every week. There are just way too many people and the parking lot is overcrowded and confusing. It is unquestionably a very frustrating experience. Most of my clients feel that way too so they ask me to issue their license so they can avoid such an ordeal.

Those who choose to get a Los Angeles marriage license themselves usually tell me that they regret it because it eats up most of a work day and both bride and groom must show up together during limited business hours. Taking the day off of work can sometimes be a costly thing especially when you are planning a honeymoon together and need that extra time for fun.

So, if you’d rather not spend a good portion of your work day waiting in line and filling out the frustrating paperwork of a wedding license, I can do it for you. Isn’t there already more wedding stress than there has to be?

I am a marriage officiant in Los Angeles. I am also an attorney so paperwork is second nature to me. It’s important to me that I follow proper procedures and get your marriage records filed. What’s more is that I always have extra marriage licenses on hand so I can issue one to you on a moment’s notice.

Click on marriage license to get to my main website

When people ask me what I do, I tell them I am a wedding officiant. I usually get that quizzical look and then the question: “Uh, what is a wedding efficient?” “No, no. A wedding oh-fish-ee-ant,” I say, enunciating.

Almost everyone I have said that to doesn’t know that my profession exists. You can call me whatever you want – - wedding minister, wedding clergy, wedding official, wedding officiate, ceremony officiant, humanist officiant, celebrant, that guy who marries people, officiant dude- – anything. That’s okay. It’s more important that you know what I can do for you.

I can help you get married, easily. In addition, I can issue you a marriage license. I save you time and hassle and can accomodate any type of wedding ceremony or wedding requests. I’m here to help.

Below are some official definitions, or officiant definitions you might say:

From A Glossary of Terms :

Officiant
This is the cleric or secular official that carries out the ceremony. For non religious weddings, he or she might be a justice of the peace, magistrate or even the Captain of a ship (when onboard).

From Wikipedia:

Officiant
An officiant is someone who officiates at (i.e. leads) a service or ceremony, such as marriage, burial, or namegiving/baptism. Officiants may be ordained by any denomination as members of their clergy, or by secular/Humanist or Interfaith/Interspiritual religious bodies. Officiants differ from Chaplains in that Officiants serve the unaffiliated public at large, while Chaplains are usually employed by an institution such as the military, a hospital or other health care facility, etc. The term “Officiant” also includes Justices of the Peace, celebrants, notaries, and other people empowered by law to perform legally-binding private ceremonies.

Marriage Officiant
Marriage officiant is a civil officer who performs acts of marriage or civil union. Their main responsibility is to receive and witness the consent of the intended spouses and to ensure the legal formalities, and hence the validity of the marriage or civil union, observed.

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Southwest Magazine, Spirit, recommended Officiant Guy

A man wrote into the Fly Girl column of Spirit, the monthly magazine issued by Southwest Airlines. He and his fiance had decided on a private small wedding when they got engaged but it started snowballing into a larger, more stressful wedding. He wanted to elope and was thinking about a destination wedding.

Fly Girl responded that wedding planning is stressful and talked about elopement packages and wedding location alternatives. She suggested us!

From Spirit, September 2007 officiant recommendatons:  “You could do . . . a California terrace overlooking the sea (check out Officiant Guy, who covers the waterfront of SoCal at officiantguy.com).”

Don’t forget that he can also issue you a marriage license, so your elopement package is easy. Plus he knows a great photographer who makes you look great!

Thanks Fly Girl for recommending the Officiant Guy.