Pastor James is 1000% on top of every aspect of every step in the preparation and officiating processes.
From pre-planning our plans and vows, to asking questions and doing his own additional research, to telling our love story, he was proactively involved.
He showed up early for our rehearsal and became part of our family, helping us empty the suv of groceries and then defrosted the shrimp!!! Then, when everyone arrived for the rehearsal, he put his Pastor role on and and left after it was all planned perfectly, going over everything twice.
Wedding day, there was a regatta at Fort Monroe and my mom and I were LATE stuck in traffic after hairdressing and makeup delays and I was in tears trying to get through the tunnel bumper to bumper traffic, with some man in a minivan flipping me off and racing-weaving through traffic getting beeped at almost hitting my brand new car and many others! I got to the Chapel of the Centurion by the skin of my teeth and my mom arrived a few minutes later.
I was fully prepared to not get married because the ceremony was so delayed, telling him to leave whenever he had to leave, not wanting to ruin anyone else’s wedding, making sure he could get to his next wedding on time. I was thinking we may not get married that day after 2-1/2 years of delays due to moving and then Covid delays. I was planning out alternatives during the bumper to bumper crying in my wedding gown drive trying to get there to get married while our parents and best friends were in state. I was thinking about how we could ask to get married at church that next day, Sunday, or the courthouse on Monday by a Judge. When I FINALLY arrived at the Chapel, Pastor James greeted me like he didn’t have a worry in the world. He was kind, supportive, patient, and smiling!
Pastor James not only waited patiently, but he Aldo took my cell phone to the Photo/Video guys because we were doing Facebook Live and also recording a video too. When we watched it later, he had walked around taking a b roll tour of the venue and talking to our at home guests!
He didn’t even shorten our service AT ALL! He had a long love story and vows that he didn’t NEED to do because they were his own add-ins no one would have known if he took those parts out or shortened them, but he didn’t shorten anything!!!!!
Our wedding was AMAZING, funny, sentimental, beautiful, romantic, truly Christian, and PERFECT TO A T!
Then we received a thank you card from him a couple days later before I even had a minute to send ours out or write his reviews!
He’s amazing. There are no words to express how grateful we are.
I’m in tears writing this because I’m so grateful for everything he did for us.
He’s worth every penny and I pray for blessings to shower him and his family.
Thank you thank you thank you Pastor James, the 757 Wedding Pastor!!!