Checklist

Checklist

Wedding Officiant Business Start Up
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  • Verify that your jurisdiction recognizes the online church you use to be ordained.

  • Become ordained as a wedding minister.

  • Register as a wedding minister with state/jurisdiction if necessary.

  • Complete any other actions (fees, forms, registration etc.) that your jurisdiction may require of wedding officiants.
  • Learn how to complete a marriage license and how, when, and where to file the marriage license.

  • Find out if you will need to charge any state sales or use taxes.
  • Learn about state and federal taxes you will need to pay on earnings.

  • Learn about keeping written records of sales, expenses, and earnings.

  • Set up a system for recording your sales, expenses and earnings.

  • Consult an accountant about the legal requirements you will have to adhere to in running your small business.

  • Think about your niche, types of wedding packages, services you will offer and the prices you will charge.
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  • Study written ceremonies, familiarize yourself with ceremony elements, construct and write ceremonies and vows.

  • Give your company the perfect name as you take into consideration your target customer, your packages, your niche and available domains.

  • Register your business name with your appropriate jurisdiction, often referred to as, DBA (doing business as) or Trade Name.

  • Choose a domain name for your website.

  • Register your domain name. (I use GoDaddy - World's No.1 Domain Registrar) (Affiliate Link)

  • Secure webhost service for your website and blog.

  • Set up a professional email name and account via your webhost service using your own domain name mailboxes.

  • Create and print your business cards.

  • Create and publish your Website.

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  • Submit site to search engine Google.

  • Submit site to search engine Yahoo.

  • Submit site to search engine Bing.

  • Submit site to Norton Safe Search to receive a safe rating.

  • Submit site to McAfee Site Advisor to receive a safe rating.

  • Distribute your business cards to local wedding vendors, florists, photographers, DJs and musicians.

  • Distribute your business cards to local wedding venues, such as, country clubs, restaurants and hotels.
  • Distribute your business cards anywhere in your community that allows for small businesses to display their business cards.

  • Post your wedding officiant listing on Yellow Pages.

  • Post your wedding officiant listing on LinkedIn.

  • Post your wedding officiant listing on Google Places.

  • Post your wedding officiant listing on Yahoo Local.

  • Add your business profile to Manta.com, an online directory for small businesses.

  • Join American Association of Wedding Officiants and post listing in AAWO officiant directory.

  • Post your wedding officiant listing in the Wedding Wire directory.

  • If you were ordained by Universal Life Church Monastery, be sure to build a profile and post a classified listing in the ULC directory.
  • Search the web for additional wedding officiant directories, review their terms of use and list with the ones that suit your needs.

  • Create a Facebook page for your wedding officiant business.

  • Create a Google+ profile for your wedding officiant business.

  • Create a Pinterest business account for your wedding officiant business.

  • Create a Twitter Account for your wedding officiant business.

  • Have proper, professional, neutral color attire ready for conducting a wedding.

  • Have a proper binder to organize the printed narrative of your wedding ceremonies that you will hold in hand as you perform the ceremony.

  • Make ready any other supplies you may need for conducting a wedding.

  • Have Printable Keepsake Wedding Certificates ready to give to your clients if that is part of the package you offer.

  • Study wedding ceremonies and become familiar with the processional, recessional and positioning of members of the wedding party.

  • Practice your voice and diction and familiarize yourself with the words you will be speaking.
  • Recite your wedding ceremony delivery repeatedly until you feel comfortable and confident.

  • Decide what your requirements and policies will be regarding deposit amounts, refund policies, full payment, cancel fees and late fees.

  • Prepare a booking contract/agreement.

  • Plan how/where you will meet your clients to book/confirm weddings.

  • Visit the How To Be A Wedding Officiant website for helpful tips and subscribe to the newsletter.

  • Look forward to booking your first client and performing your first ceremony with loving enthusiasm and anticipation!

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