Hank Visscher

I immediately felt as ease with Hank when I talked with him on the phone. We needed a non-denominational officiant for our wedding, and after we met with him in his Walnut Creek office we knew he fit the bill.

Speaking of the bill, he charges $350 (usually $400 but we didn't do a rehearsal with him the night before). That's lower than most officiants around. Niiiiice.

Hank is very organized and requests a list of who's walking with who down the aisle. He practices the bride hand-off with the parents, and he also brings his wife along and she lines all the attendants up and makes sure everything runs smoothly. You feel like you're in good hand with Hank and, with respect to "King of the Hill," Hank's wife.

He followed our wishes on what we wanted in the ceremony. He also included a rose ceremony (no, nothing like what's on "The Bachelor") by request. It's a nice way to include the moms in the ceremony since the bride's dad gets the big role.

His words during the ceremony are all really nice. The only thing that struck me as odd was that he mentioned at the end of the ceremony for no particular reason how I'd e-mailed him asking if I'd left my sweater at his office. It almost seemed like he looked through our correspondence with us so he could personalize the ceremony (since he does about 100 a year) and that's all he could come up with. Nevertheless, we were really happy with him.

Hank is just great! When we first met with him, I knew he was the one that should marry us -- -I cried when he walked us through the ceremony. He did a fabulous job marrying us --- and in fact, one of our good friends liked him so much, he married them too!