Nebraska Wedding Officiant
I’ll marry you, then play the reception.
I’m ordained, I’ve spent over a decade inside weddings, and I specialize in secular ceremonies — no scripture unless you ask for it. Whatever you want said out loud, I’ll write. Whatever you don’t, I’ll leave out. I’m based in Fremont, Nebraska, and I officiate across Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota.
The version I’d push you toward
Add the ceremony to your DJ package and it’s $750 — the same fully custom ceremony that costs $1,100 on its own. It’s $350 less because I’m already at your venue with the sound up and your timeline in my hand.
What that gets you that a separate officiant can’t:
One vendor, one contract, one person to call.
Your vows go through my system instead of the venue’s ceiling speakers. Audible past the fourth row.
The ceremony and the reception run on one timeline, because the same person built both.
No dead air at the handoff. The last word lands, the music starts.
If the ceremony runs long, I’m the one adjusting it — not the one being surprised by it.
Just need an officiant?
That works too, if I’m open. I take one wedding a weekend, and DJ couples tend to claim the date first, so standalone dates go early. Ask and I’ll tell you straight whether I’m free.
Semi-custom | $650
A call, a questionnaire, and a ceremony written from your answers. About twenty minutes, and right for most couples.
Fully custom | $1,100
We sit down and I write it from scratch — your story, your people, read back to the room in a way they’ll recognize. Rehearsal included.
Added to any DJ package | $750
The fully custom ceremony, $350 off, because your day is already mine.
How it goes
We talk — call or coffee — and I get the story.
I write it and send it over. You edit. Nothing on the day is a surprise.
I work the processional cues with your coordinator and your photographer.
I say the legal part, say the part that matters, and keep it moving.
I sign your license and get it back to the county inside the fifteen days the state allows.
The paperwork, in plain English
$25 at any county clerk’s office in Nebraska. No waiting period — you can walk out with it the same day.
Good for a year, and good anywhere in the state. The county you get it in doesn’t have to be the county you marry in.
You need two witnesses at the ceremony.
You have to be 19 to marry without parental consent.
Getting the signed license back to the clerk inside fifteen days is my job, not yours.
Your county clerk is the final word on any of this — call them if anything about your situation is unusual. Iowa and South Dakota run on their own rules; ask me and we’ll sort it out.
Let’s see if I’m free
Checking a date takes about five minutes and doesn’t commit you to anything.