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A Timeless Event - With Dorothy, our wonderful officiant!

A Timeless Event

(4 reviews)

I got Dorothy's contact information at one of the bridal shows. After a few email exchanges, I felt…read morevery comfortable with her. When Henry and I went to meet with her and Rick for the consultation, we book them that very same day without hesitation. We were so impressed at how organized they were. The whole ceremony was broken down into smaller parts. For each part, we were given 4 choices on how we want the Officiant to address it. We wanted a really fun, semi-formal secular feel to our wedding so we mainly chose readings that talk about love and friendships. It was very easy to schedule the rehearsal date. They always show up on time. Dorothy responds to emails almost immediately. She was very kind to send up reminders on what else is missing way ahead of time. I wholeheartedly recommend them. If you want, check out the highlight of our wedding. This is what Henry decided to do for "a song:" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2STNxFq8Sw

I contacted Rick and Dorothy for day-of coordination for my wedding day. I explained to them that…read morethe wedding was on the minimalist end (e.g., no bridal party, no cake cutting, no bouquet tossing, etc.) and asked them to consider a rate reduction. They explained that their price was firm and they could not negotiate. I thanked them for responding to my inquiry and explained that we would not be procuring their services as the price was outside of our budget. Here is my email: Hi Rick and Dorothy: Thanks for the response. I totally understand that your prices are set based on the work you provide and have no doubt that the price is worth it. We have several miscellaneous services that we decided to add on after we established our original budget--the day-of coordinator being one of these services--and are tied by our supplemental budget. That said, we cannot afford to procure your services. Thank you for your time and best of luck. Regards, Teresita Their response to my decision not to go with them was unprofessional and a bit unsettling. Here is their response to my email: Teresita, Best of luck to you... you will need it. Thank you for contacting A Timeless Event. Sincerely, Rick Gonzales Wedding Officiant Certified Wedding and Event Planner Dorothy Gonzales Wedding Officiant Wedding Photographer Certified Wedding and Event Planner "Best of luck to you . . . you will need it." If you're planning an event, you know it's stressful and you worry about things going wrong. When someone tells you that you're going to need luck, it just adds to the loads of stress. Rick and Dorothy's response was just plain mean. Although we didn't end up procuring their services for our wedding and cannot speak to the quality of their services, I can speak to the quality of their professionalism--err, or more appropriately, lack thereof. Professionalism is a must for wedding planners who are expected to deal with vendors and guests. In my correspondence with Rick and Dorothy, they failed to exercise professionalism.

ForeverInspired - Watching these two.. falling MORE in Love as they answered my getting-to-know-them questions was golden! It's InspirationWedding(c) Magic!!

ForeverInspired

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If you are just browsing through for an Officiant. You can just stop here, and contact Mitch…read more Talk about things happening for a reason. Our plan A; Family Member, and B; Friend that we had asked to Officiate our Wedding BOTH backed out 9 days before our Wedding. I frantically spent the night searching for a replacement via social media with no luck since it was too last minute. I sent Mitch a message via Yelp, and he responded within 15 min :) Oh was I relieved. He kept continuous contact with us as the day approached. He was on time, and very professional. My only regret is that I did NOT find him sooner. My Husband, and I wish we could have participated in his Personalized Wedding. But I could not pencil in a meeting within a 9 day time frame :( We can not thank Mitch enough for giving us such a beautiful ceremony!!

1 star My husband…read moreand I had a small, casual wedding back in 2022-- a handful of family, one photographer, and us, in the woods. We deliberately chose not to be bridezilla/groomzilla about any of it. That wasn't because the details don't matter -- they clearly matter enormously to a lot of couples, and for good reason -- it was just how we chose to approach our particular day. And thank goodness for that, because it turns out even a low-key wedding wasn't low-stakes enough to get through him unscathed. He arrived 40 minutes late, despite being emailed explicit directions -- location, cross streets, confirmed by him in writing hours earlier. We paid our photographer extra out of pocket to cover the lost time. Mid-conversation about how pretty the trees were, he segued into officiating without telling us he'd started -- we found out afterward that our wedding video is incomplete because he never signaled we were live. My father, my only living parent, and who would have been my only guest at our wedding, was too sick to attend and was counting on that video to see the ceremony. He didn't get to see all of it. We wrote our own vows in advance, and he showed us that he'd pasted them into his nice-looking book..... and then he read none of them, later explaining he'd left the notebook on a rock behind him -- then pronounced us married anyway. He also offers handfasting on his site, with several named knot options; we corresponded with him in detail about which one we wanted. When it came to it he seemed to not really understand what to do with our handfasting cords- and kind of laid it over our hands, and wrapped it once or twice, and declared it good. There was no knot tied in the "tying the knot" bit. For some couples, and for some belief systems, that knot is the actual marriage act, not a nice extra -- so this isn't a small thing to skip. Then there was the paperwork, which was explicitly part of his service. Our marriage certificate went to the wrong county, delaying our certified copy by two weeks and jeopardizing my window to get on my husband's health insurance -- a real cost, not a hypothetical one. When we raised it, he told us we must have submitted it ourselves, despite us handing him a pre-addressed envelope for the correct county. For his version to be true, he'd have had to actively create a different envelope himself. He never once considered the possibility that any part of this was on him. We've decided as a couple to laugh at the absurdity of the incompetence of our "official" who brags so much about himself on his website, and we celebrate having a photographer who took our handfasting cords after the ceremony, looked us in the eyes and said "We're gonna fix this", and took us to a beautiful meadow, where she stood at the edge of the meadow to give us privacy while still getting pictures of us reading our vows to each other. The knot was truly tied, physically and emotionally, and we felt respected by the person celebrating with us. It turned out to be one of the most beautiful parts of our wedding, but it wasn't part of the official recorded ceremony. We're genuinely fine, and rolling our eyes about it now... But if you're a couple who's spent months or years planning a ceremony that means everything to you, I don't think "roll with it" would be an option, and I'd hate for anyone to find that out the hard way. Proceed with real caution.

Ceremonies By Esteves - officiants - Updated November 2026

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