I wish I would have taken the advice of the other reviewer of Lori's services and cancelled before the wedding, but that wasn't what happened.
My fiance and I hired Lori after an awesome first meeting and after meeting several other officiants that we just didn't seem to click well with. Initially we were excited about Lori and we thought that she was very well spoken, had a good presentation of how she works and what her style is and we also liked her reasonable prices. After spending a LOT of time crafting our own ceremony (using the numerous samples she provided) and centering the WHOLE THING around the personal vows that we wrote to each other, I made the mistake of trusting Lori to provide me with a printed copy of my vows to my husband during the ceremony (rather than bringing my own copy). She assured me, right before the cermony (literally 10 minutes before it all began) that she had my vows printed and ready to go, so that I didn't need to bring my copy down; however, when she handed them over for me to read in the middle of the ceremony, they were mis-printed. I read the first half on the first page with no problems and then the next page was an excerpt from my husbands vows, not my own. She basically mis printed everything and didn't have the rest of my vows available so, while I started to sob uncontrolably in the middle of the ceremony (because the whole point of the ceremony had been messed up), she was unable to help me recover and I had to "make up" something on the spot to finsih out what I started. It was the WORST feeling in the world. I spent so much time crafting my vows and was soo excited to read them to husband in what I thought would be one of the most memorable moments of my life, yet Lori managed to ruin all of that with one careless rookie mistake of not looking over what she printed to make sure it was correct. The job we hired her to do was simple - yet, she managed to severely mess it up.
I can't even tell you how much I cried over this (after the wedding of course, I didn't want it to completly ruin my night!) and my feelings about my wedding ceremony are clouded by embarasment and dissapointment over my vows, which I NEVER expected to happen!
After all was said and done, my husband had a long talk with her to let her know our disappointment in how everything went down and she told him that she would send us a "little something" in the mail to apologize. We assumed she would send us a small refund for at least part of the money paid, but no, all we got was a note trying to "lighten up" the situation with some optomistic words (no refund!).
All in all, I think that Lori is a nice person, but she is a little too scatter-brained, disorganized and definintely not detail-oriented enough to remember to double check her work and be a good wedding officiant. If considering her for your event, I wouldn't recommend that she be trusted with this large responsibility - Keep looking so hopefully you don't have to experience what I went through.
UPDATE:
I just wanted to let everyone know that after posting this review, Lori immediately sent my husband and I a refund for her services, along with a very kind note to further apologize. We are all human and we make mistakes, but I am glad that Lori (in the end) actually ended up doing the right thing by sending the refund, which was about the only thing that could be done to help correct the situation.
Per the notes that she sent us, I understand that she beat herself up a lot over this situation, so I am fairly confident that she won't make the same mistake again. read more