Thomas Potwora, This is not so much a review, but a huge THANK YOU for what you did and how you captured our wedding. I want everyone else to read it so they know what they are getting!!
My husband and I attended a wedding where you were th...e officiant. It was in October of 2010 in Temecula, CA at a gorgeous winery. We were simply in awe of how you captured what that couple wanted to say through you. You described them as individuals then as a couple...simply amazing in how you were able to capture each person's essence, then their commitment, love, and happiness to be together.
At any rate, when we left that wedding we immediately wondered if you would be available to do ours. We waited a while to contact you, but thank God you were available to do ours. We met with you and your lovely wife, Melissa, for some lunch and discussion about what we wanted to convey at our wedding. I couldn't believe the amount of time and detail you went into during that lunch regarding our values as individuals, morals, desires, and character. Your focus to detail was amazing and you had gotten us thinking afterwards about each other, which made our commitment to each other that much stronger. I knew how we felt about each other, but I think for us to convey to a third person while in the presence of each other made us just "know" we were meant for each other.
There were about 100 people at our ceremony itself, which seemed to be a lot, and about 150 at the reception. I was asked numerous times about your services and provided your name to every single person who asked as they know someone, or are related to someone, who will be getting married soon. There were more compliments on your ceremony than I have ever heard at any previous wedding.
We loved that although our wedding was not a traditional "religious" ceremony there were references to God, spirituality, and our beliefs in one Creator of all there is...just how we requested it...spiritual but not "by the book" religious, for our purposes. Your interpretation of how I feel about my husband, and how he feels about me, was 100% spot-on. We've watched the video a couple of times and there were moments in the ceremony that we simply didn't remember since we were both nervous as a cat in a dog pound. It was a gorgeous ceremony and the words you used, how you used them, and certain inflections during times of the ceremony really enhanced it's meaning to both of us!
I want to thank you for our making our ceremony the best I've ever seen, and the only one I'll ever be a part of! I hope you get to officiate many other weddings and make other couples' days as special as you made ours!
Professional, courteous, and somewhat humorous is how I would describe our service from the time we met with you and Melissa through the reception itself. We are glad you were available and couldn't see how things would have turned out had you not been!!
I HIGHLY recommend your services to anyone seeking an officiant....if they want a quality service that is!!
Thank you, Thomas Potwora!