Reverend Tanya K. Young

emails. Rev. Young returned my email right away. I liked her website because she does non-traditional weddings. My (now) husband and I are not very religious and don't belong to any church, but we wanted something nice and meaningful. I was very impressed with Rev. Young's professionalism. She immediately returned my emails and answered all my questions right away. She sent me LOTS of ceremonies (readings, etc) to choose from and we could have written our own stuff if we had wanted to. We found some great readings that really felt like they applied to our lives/relationship. We were able to meet with Rev. Young about 2 weeks before the wedding. She is extremely warm and personable and put us both at ease about how everything would be handled. We were getting married at Bodie Island lighthouse and 2 weeks prior to the wedding we still had not received the permit from the Park Service, she was able to alleviate any of our concerns about that by making suggestions how we could handle that if the permit did not come in time. She was very reassuring and obviously experienced in handling all kinds of these situations. She also recommended a great photographer and helped us find beautiful flowers. She seems to know most everyone in the wedding industry there so was a great resourse for our other needs too. The ceremony itself was beautiful!!! Even though we only met her once and she barely knew us, it seemed like she knew us for years as an old friend. Many of our family and friends came up to her after the ceremony to say what a beautiful ceremony it was and how she made everything so warm and wonderful. Everyone was truly impressed with her. I was 10 minutes late for my wedding because the matron of honor and I got stuck in traffic. So I arrived in a panic, but Rev. Young had already lined up the families and gotten the wedding party organized and showed the flower girls, etc. what to do. She took charge of all the details and kept all the guests (and nervous groom) calm and happy. When I got there she put me at ease and made sure everything went smoothly. I was also very happy that Rev. Young did everything we talked about for the ceremony, like honoring our fathers memories (both our fathers were deceased) and other little touches we had discussed. She did everything exactly how we asked and made it very personal even though we had chosen pre-written readings from her collection. She made it seem it was all written just for us. After the wedding, she filed all the paperwork immediately and arranged for us to get certified copies of our license in the mail. By the time we got home from the honeymoon, the copies had already arrived at our home. We would highly recommend Rev. Young!! It's too bad we live out of state and don't have other occassions for her services, but would not hesitate to recommend her to friends or family members in need of an officiant at OBX, we are so grateful we found her!!!