Services
We create for you uniquely customized wedding ceremonies to treasure for a life time with special all inclusive wedding packaging – premium photography and much more
Make Southern California your wedding destination. I and my team are licensed notaries in the state of California and are special notaries in the counties of Los Angeles and Riverside. Our team is licensed, bonded and insured.
- California Public Notary
- Certified Riverside and Los Angeles County Special Notaries
- Wedding Officiates &
Ordained Ministers for 15 years - Bonded
- Insured
- Non-Denominational
- Wedding Officiating Services – which includes all wedding types specializing in destination weddings
- Beach Weddings
- Elopement
- All Inclusive Packages
All Weddings are Custom written and authored to fit the life style and spiritual preferences of our clients.
- Wedding Planning
- Day of Coordination
- Notary Services
- Los Angeles and Riverside County Confidential Marriage License
Wedding Planning
We specialize in Day Of & Month Of wedding coordination, but can also plan other events.
We offer full planning services. We will help to ensure your event runs smoothly and most importantly, make it a day full of wonderful, everlasting memories.
Whether the event is as big as a full wedding or as simple as an elopement, we can create custom packages to suit your needs and budget. We serve Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Riverside and any where else
Day of Wedding Coordinator ~ $700
This package is for the couple who needs less help. Allowing us to help you with the Wedding Rehearsal and Day of Coordination to Include the following:
- Pre-Initial Consultation, Site tour and then Wrap-Up Consultation
Unlimited phone calls, text & email contact - Attend your rehearsal to ensure the wedding party’s organization and timing
- Minute-to-minute timeline for you and your vendors; as well as, coordinating with all vendors to ensure everything arrives on time and is in correct location
- Oversee ceremony and reception site by following timeline and managing event
- Assists bride, family and wedding party as needed
- Coordinate with photographers for pre-ceremony, ceremony, and post-ceremony photos
- Greet guests to the guest book and gift table and direct them to the timeline of events during the ceremony and reception
- Coordinate and Oversee with your DJ/Band Leader your timeline for special announcements to be made for your Cocktail Hour, Receiving Line/Presentation of the Newlyweds, Buffet/Dinner Announcement, Toasts, Special Dances, Desserts/Cake Cutting, Garter/Bouquet tosses or any other reception activity
- Distribute all remaining vendor payments
- Making sure your wedding certificate and license are in a safe location
- Packing of all wedding gifts/all bride and groom personal belonging loading and them into designated person’s vehicle
- Staying through your last planned activity (usually right before the dance party begins) to ensure that all the above flows
Month of Coordinator ~ $1300
This package is for the Month of Coordinator for the couple that has started the planning and found the venue, but needs help with completion. It covers all the unfinished details that the couple needs assistance on and helps make the couples vision a reality as well as all Day of Coordination Duties with unlimited person to person meetings, phone calls, e-mails and texts.
Final Planning Meeting: We’ll get together before the wedding and help wrap up any loose ends. This is a great time to review vendor contracts, discuss the wedding day timeline, determine any outstanding vendors or issues, plan the order of your wedding ceremony procession, and finalize setup instructions for your coordinator.
Wedding Day Timeline: Create your Timeline. When should you do your first dance? When should you cut the cake? We will help you determine a solid plan for the wedding day so nothing is forgotten and that everyone is on the same page.
Vendor Confirmation four weeks prior to wedding: Let’s face it – the last few weeks before your wedding will be hectic enough without having to double-check your vendors! There are RSVPs, the seating chart, writing thank-you notes for early gifts, and preparing for the rehearsal, among many other things you’ll be worrying about. We’re here to do as much as we can for you during this busy time so you can focus on the most important reason for your wedding: your fiancé!
Rehearsal Direction: Let us help line up your wedding party and show them how it’s done! We also direct ushers and cue music for your processional and recessional.
Ceremony Set-up: We arrive at your ceremony site as early as possible to display programs, set up a unity candle or other ceremony items, arrange pew decoration, and give your ushers a last-minute reminder of how to seat guests.
Reception Set-up: We will decorate your reception site! This may include placing favors at each setting, putting out table numbers, setting out place cards, displaying a guest book, decorating tables, or an assortment of many other different things!
Event Management: Our role on your wedding day is to prevent & fix any problems that may arise during your event while helping you maintain a cool composure. This includes alerting your parents when it’s time for their special dances, steering you to the cake when it’s time to cut, and reminding the catering staff to pour champagne just before the toasts. This will allow you to enjoy quality time at your wedding reception and enjoy your first few hours of marriage among dear family and friends. We keep things in order and moving so you don’t have to!
Wedding Officiant
What is a Wedding Officiant
An officiant is someone who officiates (i.e. leads) at a service or ceremony, such as marriage, burial, or namegiving/baptism. Officiants may be ordained by any religious denomination as members of clergy, or by any official secular organization. Officiants differ from Chaplain 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” includes Justices of the Peace, celebrants, marriage commissioners, ministers, notaries, and other people empowered by law to perform legally binding private ceremonies.
What You Can Expect
when you meet a wedding Officiant. If you’ve never heard the term before, an Officiant can be religious figure or judge other county official.
Not all officiants are true ministers or pastors. A minister is a religious figure that has been through formal training with an established church. Those who are ordained on the internet are what is known as honorary ministers some will have the title of Minister, some will adopt Reverend as a honorary sign of respect.
How To Prepare For Your First Meeting
Before you meet with your Officiant, there are a few questions you should know the answers to. It’ll help you and your Officiant plan your day as easily as possible, and you won’t be surprised when your Officiant asks. Most of my first meetings with couples run about an hour, so arrange a time when you can relax and enjoy talking about your wedding.
- Tell me how you met – every meeting story has something special. I also like to ask each person how they knew the other was The One. More wonderful stories!
- What are the values that are important to you in your marriage? Knowing what values are important to my couple helps me shape and focus the ceremony. Family, true partnership, love, honesty, and loyalty are great to talk about during the vows. it helps me craft your perfect ceremony.
- It’s crucial to nail down a style – short and sweet? Romantic and flowery? Solemn but joyful? Warm and familial? For those who are undecided we offer video and audio samples – think of it like tasting ice cream. When we know the flavor, you can build your Sunday !
- How about your vows? Do you wish to speak your own personal vows.
- Who is in the wedding party, if you’re being escorted down the aisle, and if you want to honor anyone special.
- Are we including children in the ceremony.
- There might be extra ceremony elements you want to include.
- Rose ceremony.
- The water or sand ceremony.
- The hand ceremony, or a handfasting.
- Do you have a cultural ritual you want to include?
A good Officiant won’t insist on specific requirements and will give you every consideration on your day. It’s your wedding!
Shop around – if there’s anything about the person you’re talking to that makes you feel uncomfortable, remember that you do have other options.
Pricing varies widely based on location, so you may want to do a little research to make sure you’re getting a reasonable rate.
Check reviews! It’s worth the time to investigate anyone you hire for your wedding!
Notary Services
We come to you…
Sand to Sea Weddings is an authorized Agent and Special Notary of Los Angeles and Riverside Counties. This gives us the ability to handle all of the legal paperwork associated with your marriage easily, quickly, and confidentially.
In addition, Reverend Lisa Phillian is an Ordained Minister able to perform Wedding Ceremonies anywhere within the state of California.
What Is A Notary?
A Notary Public is an official of integrity appointed by state government —typically by the secretary of state — to serve the public as an impartial witness in performing a variety of official fraud-deterrent acts related to the signing of important documents. These official acts are called notarizations, or notarial acts. Notaries are publicly commissioned as “ministerial” officials, meaning that they are expected to follow written rules without the exercise of significant personal discretion, as would otherwise be the case with a “judicial” official.
A Notary’s duty is to screen the signers of important documents — such as property deeds, wills and powers of attorney — for their true identity, their willingness to sign without duress or intimidation, and their awareness of the contents of the document or transaction. Some notarizations also require the Notary to put the signer under an oath, declaring under penalty of perjury that the information contained in a document is true and correct.
Impartiality is the foundation of the Notary’s public trust. They are duty-bound not to act in situations where they have a personal interest. The public trusts that the Notary’s screening tasks have not been corrupted by self-interest. And impartiality dictates that a Notary never refuse to serve a person due to race, nationality, religion, politics, sexual orientation or status as a non-customer.
As official representatives of the state, Notaries Public certify the proper execution of many of the life-changing documents of private citizens — whether those diverse transactions convey real estate, grant powers of attorney, establish a prenuptial agreement, or perform the multitude of other activities that enable our civil society to function.
Qualifications
- Insured – The insurance protects the client from damages that could occur due to an unforeseen accident that might prevent the Officiant from performing their duties.
- Bonded – bonding assures honesty and protects you against fraud
- I am bonded and insured. What this means to you is I have gone through an FBI background check and have been proven to be above reproach. I work as an authorized agent of Los Angeles County. I issue Confidential Marriage Licenses, perform wedding ceremonies, as well notarize and handle all the overwhelming paperwork.
- Because I am bonded, this assures you that I have no criminal record, that I must answer to a professional code of ethics and I am accountable for my actions.
- Authorized – By The County of Los Angeles and Riverside to Handle all Legal Aspects of Marriage Documents
- Authorized Agent Of Los Angeles County and Riverside Counties
- Authorized – By the County of Los Angeles and Riverside to issue Confidential Marriage Licenses