The Wedding Officiants Fix Kit
Built for wedding officiants.
Couples search how much an officiant costs. Officiants lose money on the other side of that number: a fee set without looking at what couples actually pay, rehearsals and script writing done for free, travel nobody billed, a date held with no deposit, paperwork that has to be redone, cash and tips that never make the books, and taxes nobody withheld. I wrote this kit so you can check each one against your own bookings.
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The 8 leaks it covers
7 you can close it · 1 a pro decides
- Fee set without looking at what couples actually payWhere to look first: List your last ten ceremonies: fee, location type, and hours spent.Keep it from coming back: Review your fees once a year against your own booking log.You can close it
- Rehearsals attended for freeWhere to look first: Count the rehearsals you attended last year and the hours each took, with travel.Keep it from coming back: Ask the rehearsal question on every booking call.You can close it
- Travel to the venue never billedWhere to look first: For your last ten ceremonies, write down round-trip miles and drive time.Keep it from coming back: Log miles the day of each ceremony.You can close it
- Dates held with no deposit and no written agreementWhere to look first: Count the bookings in the last two years that cancelled or moved, and what you were paid for each.Keep it from coming back: No date goes on your calendar without a signed agreement and deposit.You can close it
- License paperwork returned late or with errorsWhere to look first: Rules for who may officiate, how the license is completed and when it must be returned are set by each state and county. Look up the rules for each county where you officiate before the ceremony.Keep it from coming back: Return the license within days, not at the deadline.You can close it
- Payment chased after the weddingWhere to look first: List any balances that were paid late or are still unpaid.Keep it from coming back: Send the reminder seven days before the balance date.You can close it
- Cash fees and tips never recorded, and self-employment tax not set asideWhere to look first: Log every payment, including cash and any tip: date, couple, amount, method.Keep it from coming back: Add each payment to the log the day it's received.A pro decides
- Custom script writing hours never countedWhere to look first: For your next three ceremonies, time each part: intake call, couple interview, writing drafts, revisions, rehearsal, ceremony.Keep it from coming back: Log writing time on every booking.You can close it
Free: one full leak from this kit
No sign-up, no email. Here is leak 1 of 8 exactly as it appears in the kit, so you can see what you get before you buy.
Fee set without looking at what couples actually pay
You can close it- List your last ten ceremonies: fee, location type, and hours spent.
- For reference, The Knot's 2025 Real Weddings Study reports an average officiant cost of $260: $240 for hometown weddings, $300 for domestic destinations, $320 for destinations and $460 for international destinations (VERIFIED: The Knot).
- Compare your fee by location type to those averages.
- Divide each fee by total hours, including meetings, writing, travel and the ceremony (CALCULATED: fee / hours).
- Decide your packages from your own numbers.
Your part: Know your per-hour number and set packages from it.
Your package sheet: Ceremony only (includes [MEETINGS], custom script, ceremony, license signing): [FEE] Rehearsal: [FEE PER HOUR / FLAT] Travel beyond [MILES]: [RATE] Deposit to hold date: [AMOUNT]
Review your fees once a year against your own booking log.
What this kit can't decide for you: We never tell you what to charge. The averages are context.
That's 1 of 8. The other 7 come the same way in the kit: steps, words to send, a habit to keep each one closed.
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What people in this work look up
When wedding officiants go looking for answers, they search things like “wedding officiant fee”, “how much to pay wedding officiant”, “wedding officiant business” and “become a wedding officiant”. Those searches turn up forms, averages and other people's numbers. This kit starts from your own records instead: the 8 places money leaks in this work, where to look first and the words to send to close each one.
What you get for each leak
- Numbered steps to close each leak
- Your part, spelled out
- Words you can use: letters and scripts, ready to send (fill in the brackets)
- A habit that keeps each leak from coming back
- An honest line on what the kit can't decide for you
A page from the kit
Questions people ask
Fee set without looking at what couples actually pay: where do I start?
Start here: List your last ten ceremonies: fee, location type, and hours spent. To keep it from coming back: Review your fees once a year against your own booking log.
Rehearsals attended for free: where do I start?
Start here: Count the rehearsals you attended last year and the hours each took, with travel. To keep it from coming back: Ask the rehearsal question on every booking call.
Travel to the venue never billed: where do I start?
Start here: For your last ten ceremonies, write down round-trip miles and drive time. To keep it from coming back: Log miles the day of each ceremony.
What it can't decide for you
This kit works from your own records. It doesn't give legal, tax, licensing or financial advice, and it never tells you what to charge. Where a CPA, attorney, insurer or state board makes the call, the kit says so and gets your records ready for them.
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Next step
- Run your free LeakReceipts check — it reads your own receipts and records and shows where money is leaking out, line by line.
- TrueNET — the whole-picture money truth: what you actually keep after every cost, across everything you earn and spend.
Use Jobber or Housecall Pro? Run the free leak check — it reads your job export in your browser and shows the money leaks the software doesn't flag. Nothing is uploaded.