Clergy for Weddings

Reverand Rich Lindvall was our officiant for our wedding, and for the most part everything went okay. He sent us s bunch of options for how we wanted our ceremony to be constructed, but we didn't really like one in particular so we decided to take different things from a few and make our own. The choices for vows also weren't that special, so we wrote our own and it was much more special to us. The thing that I wasn't happy about was about 2 weeks before our wedding I had emailed Rev. Rich for some information and some last questions that I had and I didn't hear from him until 4 days before our wedding! He also asked us if we wanted him at our rehearsal(for an additional fee) and we decided that it wasn't necessary since he was familiar with the location and he insured me that he really didn't need to be there. However, he said that he would call me on the Wednesday before our wedding (we had our rehearsal on a Thursday, wedding on Friday) but he still didn't call us. Then on the night of our rehearsal he called us at 6pm and said he was at our venue and there for the rehearsal. When we gave him our final payment that night, he told us it would be an additional $100 for him coming to the rehearsal...even though he never told us he was coming. Needless to say, we told him we didn't know he was coming and he let the additional $100 slide. Our actual ceremony went great and went off without any problems. We did do a rose ceremony for our mothers..and he never made any announcement or indication to our guests as to why we were giving each others parents roses. All in all, because we put together our whole ceremony and made it very personal, I was happy and we got a lot of compliments from our guests that said they enjoyed our ceremony a lot.

Rev. Lindvall was the perfect officiant for our wedding. The material he provided in the planning process was so helpful. He assisted us in putting together a very meaningful, spiritual service that was non-denominational. He incorporated our own personal tastes and preferences and offered suggestions that were very good. He also made himself very available to us, and eliminated all of the uncertainty!

Rev. Richard Lindvall conducted the wedding service for my daughter. He was compassionate, creative, attentive and presented a beautiful, meaningful ceremony. He was always available to consult with and made very constructive suggestions to enhance the ceremony. Many of our guests went out of their way to come to me and comment on what a beautiful service my daughter had. I would highly recommend Rev. Lindvall, he has extensive experience in many venues, and draws on the experiences to present the most meaningful, memorable wedding ceremony for all involved.

Reverend Rich Lindvall did a fabulous job at my wedding. As part of the preparation Rev. Lindvall sent me several different services he created so that I could decide what I liked and didn't like and what best fit my personality. I made several changes and Reverend Lindvall was very accomodating. He also took the time to talk to both my fiance and me about how we met and asked for stories of our life as a couple, and tastefully incorporated these very personal touches into our ceremony. Reverend Lindvall was very warm and friendly at the rehearsal dinner and reception, added humor in all the appropriate times, and gave a nice blessing at the reception. Reverend Lindvall helped make my ceremony wonderful and I highly recommend him.

Rev. Rich is a very person, however my experience wasn't as satisifying as I hoped. Rev. Rich did not write one sentence of our ceremony. He provided examples of other ceremonies that he has done.. but left me to copy and paste the sections that I wanted.. While the flexiblity was nice, our ceremony was very non-personal and we could have done the same thing from a book from the library. Rev Rich did not provide the value I was looking for in creating the ceremony. I had to add "write the ceremony" as a task to my already long list of wedding things to do.

While Rev Rich did a great job during our rehersal night (you will have to buy him a room for the night of the rehersal).. the wedding day was less then great. After months of planning my special day and finally saying my vows..staring into my groom's eyes... RING RING.. cell phone goes off.. Rev Rich's cell phone...loudly. Of course not only does the phone ring, but the voicemail indicator goes off as well. He apologized saying that his son was in the hospital and his wife was letting him know of his status. I was ok with that.. however, if your son was in the hospital and your wife (who also works at CFW) calls you during your service.. you would think he would be on the road ASAP after the ceremony, right? No, he stayed well after the blessing and well into the dessert table. I am trying to be strong and undertstanding, but a Rev that doesn't utilizes his viberate option on his cell gets no more then 1.8 stars from me. My wedding vows will always be infamously remembered by myself, my family and friends as an embarrassing and awkward moment.

We found Clergy For Weddings on our preferred vendor list from our wedding venue. Reverend Rich was really nice to work with, he is always available and easy to talk to even though we only met over the phone prior to the wedding. Reverend Rich worked with us to make a ceremony that was custom for us. We did not want a religious ceremony and we also did not want a lengthy ceremony so he sent us some samples and we got exactly what we had hoped for. About 1 week before the ceremony I called Reverend Rich and was a little nervous about how everything would come together. He walked me through everything on the phone and made me feel at ease, he also gave me several useful suggestions on how to make the ceremony flow perfectly. The ceremony turned out great and we were very pleased with the outcome, my husband and I both enjoyed working with Reverend Rich and we thank him for his services.

Rev. Lindvall did our wedding services. He did a fantastic job! He gave us many options of different services for us to look at and well as give us suggestions on how to make our vows special and unique to us. He interviewed both my husband and I about how we met and incorporated those facts into our service. I enjoyed having that extra added and so did my guests! I would recomend him to anyone who needs a Reverend. Awesome job making my wedding day just what I always dreamed of!

Always a pleasure to have Clergy for Weddings at Belvedere Events & Banquets! They make your ceremony special to the needs of the bride and groom!

Always a pleasure to have Clergy for Weddings at Belvedere Events & Banquets! They make your ceremony special to the needs of the bride and groom!