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Personalized Weddings in Minnesota
Written, coordinated, & officiated just for you

When you plan your wedding, you have hundreds of choices and a limited amount of time. With the right help, planning your wedding is a joy. Your wedding ceremony can reflect who you really are. Everything at your wedding will be done your way - but you don't have to be in charge.

You may use my 10+ years of experience planning, coordinating, and performing non-denominational, inter-faith, and non-religious wedding ceremonies to create a wedding ceremony that's right for you. I'm Reverend Tomkin Coleman, and as an ordained Anglican minister, I work full-time designing and officiating wedding ceremonies, working as a non-denominational Chaplain ministering to all faiths, including those who are not religious and those who are spiritual in their own way. Together, we can create a wedding ceremony that is special, meaningful, and uniquely yours.

Note that if you're planning a wedding on:

• A Saturday

• Between May and October of 2008

• Between 2:00 and 6:00 pm

You and your beloved may have different faiths, have different feelings about faith, or be non-religious. Your wedding can be spiritual and still reflect both your backgrounds. I'd love to plan with you to help create a personalized wedding ceremony that reflects your wishes, feelings and beliefs. 

• Your wedding can be religious, non-religous, or simply spiritual in your own way

• Customized to your beliefs and wishes

• Everything coordinated and rehearsed: Your ushers, music, parents, everything

• All-inclusive: Rehearsal, travel, re-writes

Why you may choose Rev. Tomkin Coleman to officiate your wedding ceremony

• You want a more meaningful wedding ceremony than a Minnesota Justice of the Peace or Judge can provide, one that is longer, more meaningful, and tailored and customized to your unique wishes, beliefs and values

• You may have selected a non-traditional wedding site in the Minneapolis or St Paul, MN area, a spot which poses unique challenges

• You may have found a Minnesota wedding chapel and then realized that a minister would be more appropriate than a Judge or Justice of the Peace

• If you choose my services, you will have a flexible, experienced minister who is comfortable with planning and officiating the entire wedding ceremony and can ensure everything goes smoothly, no matter what your site or what kind of wedding you are planning

The planning process

• At our meeting 
  When we meet, we will go through all the elements of your wedding ceremony - vows, rings, readings, everything - including recommendations for wedding vendors, suggestions for music, your family considerations, your wedding party choices, location characteristics, and everything else involved in planning your special day

• Reserving my services
  Once we meet, you may reserve your date and time with a non-refundable deposit of half the fee. Your deposit then applies towards the fee. Once you've reserved my services, I will get right to work on your ceremony scripting, writing up everything that we worked on at our meeting. The other half of the fee is due at the wedding rehearsal

• After we meet
  Within a week or two after we meet, you will receive the entire wedding ceremony scripting, 10-14 pages long, completely written up from scratch for your review. Your scripting will be a clear, well-organized document, completely detailed and complete. This writing out of the scripting for your review is especially important and unique to my services. I undertake this effort so that you will always know exactly what to expect. With this complete scripting in hand, you will feel secure and confident knowing that your wedding ceremony is personalized and customized to reflect your beliefs, values, and wishes.

• Changes
  Once you receive your scripting, you can go through it at your leisure to make sure that everything is exactly how you want it. If there are changes in the coming months, just let me know and I will send you a newly revised scripting, so we're always on the same page.  

• Rehearsal
  By this point, you'll have the complete and final scripting, with any and all changes you requested, and you will have the security of my conducting the wedding rehearsal so your wedding party, family, and everyone else is completely comfortable and confident. Your Minnesota marriage license administration will be taken care of by me so you can concentrate on more important things, like enjoying your big weekend.

• Wedding day
  Now you'll be completely ready for your wedding! On your wedding day, I will arrive 30-45 minutes before your ceremony. You won't have to remember anything - it's just "repeat after me." You won't have to be in charge of anything - you can just say, "Talk to Pastor Tomkin." You can be completely in the moment, enjoying your big day.

• Through the entire process - 

• Meeting together 
• Planning
• Writing the ceremony
• Re-writing
• Recommending
• Advising
• Rehearsing
• And the wedding itself...

...your thoughts, beliefs, and wishes are of utmost importance. 

Feel free to visit around the website, especially the FAQ, which gives information on fees and has all sorts of helpful information for getting your marriage license, visiting sites, and checking out vendors. When you've perused through the site and feel comfortable with my services, feel free to give me a call or drop me an email to check my availability for your date and we'll set up a time to meet and chat and plan.

I look forward to hearing from you!

See if I'm free on your date and time!
(612) 986-5528

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