The ATL Wedding Officiant

Pricing

Prices start at $350

Packages

Prices start at $150

About The ATL Wedding Officiant

The ATL Wedding Officiant

Wedding Officiant

You Deserve the Very Best for Your Wedding Day! Let North Georgia’s Award-Winning Officiant Create a Custom Ceremony That Will Fulfill Your Dreams, Entertain Your Guests, and Be Remembered for a Lifetime! Professional Wedding Officiant and ordained, nondenominational minister, Valarie Manning offers wedding, elopement, and vow renewal officiating services for Christian, non-denominational, interfaith, and non-religious ceremonies for ALL couples. No matter your vision...from the formal, traditional to whimsical and fun, she can help turn your wedding dream into reality!

Valarie is dedicated to crafting one of a kind, custom ceremonies tailored to the unique personalities of each couple. During the planning process, she is happy to provide guidance with vow writing, as well as incorporating new and old traditions into the ceremony. She easily accommodates special requests such as handfasting, unity shots or sand jar ceremonies and much more. Valarie serves couples in Metro Atlanta, Athens, throughout Northeast Georgia, and Upstate South Carolina.

In three words: Collaborative, Confident, Supportive

Services

Ceremony types

  • Civil Union
  • Commitment Ceremony
  • Elopement
  • Interfaith Ceremony
  • Legal License Signing
  • Multicultural Weddings
  • Non-religious Ceremony
  • Other
  • Religious
  • Vow Renewal Ceremony

Religious affiliations

  • Christian
  • Interfaith
  • Other
  • Secular
  • Spiritual

The ATL Wedding Officiant packages

Budget Elopement

Description

Just the two of you. Short, simple and sweet!

What’s included
  • A 15-20 minute phone consultation
  • Your choice of simple civil or Christian ceremony
  • Choose my location in either Athens or Commerce
  • Return of the signed marriage license to the court
  • Couple and photographer only. No guests.
  • Available by appointment only:
  • Monday-Friday 10 AM-3 PM Fee: $150
  • Sunday, 12 PM-3 PM Fee: $225
  • Same day appointments available!

Athens Area Micro-Wedding

Description

For the couple who wants to get married without all the fuss. Whether it's just the two of you or sharing with a few close friends, an elopement is the perfect solution!

What’s included
  • A 15-20 minute phone consultation
  • Your choice of simple civil or Christian ceremony
  • Return of the signed marriage license to the court
  • Wedding Couple, up to 16 guests, and photographer
  • Banks, Clarke, Jackson or Madison County Only
  • For other Counties, please see Weddings
  • Monday-Thursday, Fee: $225
  • Friday or Sunday, Fee: $250
  • Nonrefundable Payment In Full Required at booking

Custom Wedding Ceremony

Description

With a focus on personalization and attention to detail, The ATL Wedding Officiant works closely with each couple to create a ceremony that reflects their unique love story. Valarie uses their vision to craft a one of a kind experience that may include personal vows, readings, participation from friends or family, cultural, religious or unity elements such as hand fasting, wine blending, foot washing, and much more. The couple approves the final draft, and the script is uniquely theirs!

What’s included
  • Unlimited consultations
  • Assistance with vow writing, if requested
  • Creating a custom marriage ceremony for the couple
  • Officiating at the couple’s chosen venue
  • Return of the signed marriage license to the court
  • Fees from $350, dependent on distance travelled
  • Rehearsal Attendance from $100
  • Nonrefundable 50% retainer due at booking

Custom Vow Renewal

Description

The perfect way to tell your partner that you would marry them all over again! Renew your marriage vows privately or share the experience with family and friends. A Vow Renewal includes the same features as a custom wedding ceremony with one difference. Instead of filing a marriage license with the court, the Officiant creates a commemorative Vow Renewal Certificate for the couple. Pricing is the same as a custom wedding ceremony because the same amount of work and time go into creating both.

Reviews

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    Jamie

    Rating: 5
    •Apr 11, 2025

    She is your girl!

    Valarie is seriously amazing at what she does! She wrote an entire custom ceremony for my husband and I. We had conversations about how religious we are, readings we liked, even about our families. She offered ceremony suggestions and we ended up doing a beautiful cord of three [strands] that’s now hanging in our bedroom! She also helped SO much with writing our vows! No amount of Pinterest helped me get started on my vows, but she sent a guide and I finished within an hour! She is your gal!”

  • K

    Kayleigh

    Rating: 5
    •Apr 11, 2025

    Wonderful Experience

    ATL Wedding Officiants was very professional, reasonably priced and most importantly, performed a beautiful ceremony for our wedding. They helped us write our ceremony script and we were able to personalize it however we wanted. On the day of the wedding they were on time and ready to go. We were very happy with the job they did.

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I've been officiating weddings since March 2019.
I officiated my first wedding in March 2019. As of June 2025, I’ve joined over 350 couples in marriage.
YES! You can absolutely customize your ceremony! This is YOUR wedding, no one else's. I craft one-of-a-kind ceremonies that reflect your personalities and fulfill your dreams.
Yes, I do attend rehearsals and highly recommend them. A rehearsal is more than just practicing the processional and learning where to stand. It gives everyone a chance to meet and get to know each other, and become familiar with the environment so that everyone is relaxed on the wedding day. Most importantly, a rehearsal provides the couple with the opportunity to become familiar with the flow and all the elements of the ceremony so that they can be more relaxed to focus on each other, rather than what comes next. Because not all couples want a rehearsal, my Officiant fee does not include rehearsal attendance. Rehearsal fees begin at $100.
Absolutely! I can create a ceremony for you just as if this is your first wedding. Many couples get married at the courthouse for legal purposes and have a big wedding at a later date. That's fine! Whether you are treating this as your first wedding or a vow renewal years later, I can create a unique, personalized ceremony for you for the same pricing as a regular, full wedding.
No, I do not require premarital counseling, nor do I provide it. That is out of my scope as an Officiant. I am not a licensed marriage counselor, so I am not qualified in that field. If interested, I do provide my clients with pre-marital counseling resources.

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