The Wedding | A Podcast by National Award Winning Officiant Sonita M. Leak
By Sonita M. Leak
The Wedding | A Podcast by National Award Winning Officiant Sonita M. LeakMar 30, 2020
The Wedding | Officiant vs. Celebrant: What's the Difference?
Listen in to hear the answer to this question asked of me often...
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The Wedding: The Back End of 'I Do'
Listen in to hear about your Back End as a Wedding Officiant.
"...As you are connecting with your audience, giving queues and performing your service, you also have to be aware that you are giving the RIGHT queues and not making movements nor giving non-verbal queues that would..."
The Wedding | How to 'Marry' Your Media
The more you research Weddings, the more you can add to your content, to the Weddings themselves and bring it all together and disperse it through your Social Media...
Advertising Your Notary and Officiant Business for Valentine's Day
The Wedding Vlog & Podcast | How to Broadcast your Ceremony Using LoveCast®
Wedding Couples and Officiants, hear the benefits of having a LoveCast® (or live streamed ceremony). You capture your precious moments, family and friends get to see NO MATTER WHERE IN THE WORLD!
Visit www.WeddingsbySonita.com/LoveCastLiveStream for examples of a LoveCast® Wedding LiveStream.
The Wedding | Officiant Scheduling 101
You don’t know just HOW MANY TIMES I’ve been called to Officiate a ceremony where the Officiant either forgot about their duties on Wedding Day or overbooked because they may have had other underlying appointments. Communication is key in ours and really ANY business. You’ll want to operate your Wedding Officiant business so that...
Listen in to hear more!
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The Wedding | Add Wedding Officiant to your Notary Resume
The Wedding: Now Offering Wedding Officiant Consultations ONLINE
Are you looking at the option of becoming a Wedding Officiant? Are you currently an Officiant or member of Clergy already performing ceremonies and want to brush up on your Officiant skills? I now offer One-on-One ONLINE Wedding Officiant consultation sessions.
These hourly sessions are tailored to your experience level. For those new to the industry, the one hour consultation includes an introduction into the Wedding Officiant world. The consultation includes handy guides on ‘officially’ starting your business, from Marketing and Advertising, Budgeting, Staging, Self-Care, Vendor Networking and Ceremony Set-up.
For seasoned Wedding Officiants, the one hour consultation will include an Officiant business analysis. During the consultation, I will also give you hints and tips on how to make your business more efficient, honing in on time management, scheduling, oration and vow writing.
The Wedding: Marriage Behind a Mask - Part 2
With Coronavirus raging, how do you get married? Without family and friends being present? Can they be present, and HOW?
The Wedding: Bells Rings for Devan and D'Nazia Helm
Photography courtesy of Kimmy Cruz of Dogwood Grace Portraits
Congratulations to the Helms!
Devan & D’nazia were married in Downtown Greenville, South Carolina.
Applying for and Obtaining your Certified Copies of Your Marriage License in GVL (Follow Along - Link in Description)
This past few weeks, multiple couples have inquired about how to apply for their marriage license. You can visit the tutorial videos that coincide on Weddings by Sonita by CLICKING HERE.
You can visit the Greenville County Marriage License Division and apply HERE.
After you’ve visited and have begun the process, come back to visit me on WeddingsbySonita.com to get married!
~Sonita
*Please keep in mind that the marriage license division may begin reducing the number of applications based on administrator workforce availability.
NOTARIZING in a COVID Culture
Marriage Behind a Mask | A Briefing of Coronavirus' Effect on Our Industry
The World, the Weddings Industry and our Way of Life has changed… FOREVER.
As a Wedding and Marriage Officiant, I get to see couples at one of their optimal points in life. Now, with COVID-19, there has been a shift. The entire world is learning how to re-adjust; not just in business, but in also in hygiene, values and morals.
The Wedding: Celebrating the Marriage of Ioannis & His Bride Terri
Photography by Shana Pyburn of Piece of Py Photography
Married at the Spur of the Moment
February 24, 2020 – “A couple called me at 6:34pm on last night and inquired about getting married today. Given their schedule and the weather, we weighed several options. My suggestion, “Why don’t you get married tonight?”
A Complete TakeOVER | Introducing the New Owner of Complete Weddings + Events, Tia McAlister
Your Marriage Notary Sonita M. Leak had the honor of being called to notarize the finalized signatures for paperwork. Listen in for more information!
Photography by That Girl Amy Mack
Married Among the High Waves of the Raging Reedy River
Congratulations are in order for a couple married along our favorite local body of water.
Private Marriage Ceremony without Kate's Knowledge | The Village Grind
I marry couples for a living. Here's what happened the day I tried to pass a nuptials ceremony past a local barista.
Bobby and LaKeya Smith | November 19, 2015
Completed with all of the ceremonial pomp and circumstance, this couple was married 'Falls Park on the Reedy' style.
Eloy and Adamaris Williams | December 29, 2015
Congratulations are in order for this pair married in a quiet wooded area of Falls Park on the Reedy River.
Congratulations to the New Mr. & Mrs. Aaron & Quatina Lee
Married September 12, 2014
Listen in to hear about the nuptials of the couple.
It's Random Acts of Kindness Week | Pay it Forward
Have you ever thought to yourself when seeing a panhandler on the side of the road, “I’m not giving any money to them, they might buy alcohol or spirits with the money I give.” Some would argue that, if you …
Stepping into the Unknown
Podcast Feature of the Week - Owner and Host Sonita M. Leak - Adventures in Matrimony
"When you think about the position you hold as a Notary Public marrying a couple, there may be some doubt. What will people think? I am not a man or woman of the cloth. I am not a Minister. I am not a Pastor. I am not a Rabbi. I am merely a Notary Public."