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All of our packages include an innovative, immersive ceremony writing process.
It’s your story. Tell it through your ceremony.
Pricing ranges between $525-$1050.
1
Getting to Know You Through Unlimited Meetings
We’ll send a questionnaire to learn about you two. Your answers will help us guide the following conversations together. We like to keep our conversations casual like friends chatting. We’ll ask some questions to help you tell your story, probably over dinner or a glass of wine. If you’re open to it, we love talking to family and friends to obtain more insight into you.
*applies to all packages except our base package, an affordable option for couples with limited budget.
2
Writing Your Story 100% Template-Free
Our writing process is truly like none other. We’ll send a link to a Google Doc so you can be part of the process while we write your ceremony 100% from scratch. We’ll setup additional meetings to keep learning about you and revise the ceremony until it’s perfect. We don’t use templates or filler material.
3
Prepping You for Your Day
No matter how big or small your ceremony is, every couple has access to The Vow Journal, Vow Sessions and The Rehearsal Guide, all materials to help you prep for your day. You’ll head into your ceremony with nothing to worry about – we’ll guide you through the entire thing!
Legals Only
Starting at- This package is for the legals-only. It is available:
- Monday – Wednesday at the officiant’s location of choosing
- With no custom ceremony, no vows, just our own custom legal bits.
- Within 40 miles of the metro area
- No guests, except the legally required amount for witnesses-
- No photography
- Do not select this option if you would like an intimate ceremony beyond the legal language. If you’d like to say your own vows, please look at our Base option.
All Standard
Starting at- Free Vow Journal prompt books (after January 2023) by I Just Want to Say
- Fully customized ceremony (100% from scratch – no templates!)
- (+ Unlimited Face to Face meetings)
- (+ Wedding any day of the Week)
- (+ Assistance with wedding vows)
- Video questionnaires for you two and your family + friends which you can keep as a memento
- Any location in the Chicago metro area
- Rehearsal Guide
- Travel outside the metro area is $1 per mile, roundtrip.
- Rehearsal can be added for +400 once the date and time are set
Base
Starting at- Fully customized ceremony (100% from scratch – no templates!)
- 1 digital meeting
- Monday-Wednesday Wedding
- Any location in the Chicago metro area
- Video questionnaires for you two and your family + friends which you can keep as a memento
- Travel outside the metro area is $1 per mile, roundtrip.

Your Team of Officiants
All of our officiants are professionally trained storytellers and writers with prior experience telling stories. Read and watch a bit more about them below!

Liz
Founder + Officiant
(she/her)
Liz founded Liz Rae & Co in 2015 during her best friend Maranda’s engagement. Her friend, Timmie, at the time also struggled with finding an LGBTQ-friendly officiant who custom-wrote ceremonies.Liz believes the ceremony is the best part of the wedding day and wanted to change the industry by emphasizing not only the importance of marriage ceremonies but inclusivity as well.
When she isn’t writing ceremonies, she’s working on editing her first novel and diving into her second. She’s been writing her whole life, but gained her storytelling knowledge through Faber Academy’s novel program and UCLA’s TV and Film Writing degree. You can read some of her writing on her website, Liz Rae and more notably, on Thought Catalog. She also writes terrible Instagram poetry at @iamlizrae, but wouldn’t recommend reading it.
She speaks Spanish, some French, and some Italian, and she’s lived in France, Italy, Spain, Peru, the United Kingdom. She’s traveled to every continent except Antarctica.
She loves writing weddings of all kinds — her favorite part about the job is figuring out how to tell each and every story! She can’t wait to get to know you and be part of your wedding. 🙂

Kelly
Officiant
(she/her)
Kelly’s journey to officiating may seem sideways at first, having started as a live storyteller, before transitioning to freelance writer, followed by magically finding herself standing on stages talking to hundreds of women about the intersection of self-doubt, mental health, and motherhood. But the truth is that Kelly writes about journeys and growth, and isn’t that precisely what marriage is?
Kelly loves getting to know the couples that she works with in order to best tell their story. She often kicks off meetings with couples by asking them how they want their ceremony to feel. Kelly believes a beautifully crafted ceremony feels not like reading from a script, but like finishing a very good chapter in an even better book. She can’t wait to help you write yours.
When not officiating, you can find Kelly spending time with her husband, 2 sons and 2 crazy dogs, knitting, hiking, cooking up a storm, and writing about mental health on her blog, Hey Kelly Renee.

Vincent
Floater Officiant
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