Oh boy! I hate to write this review because there are so many 5 star reviews. But, what happened, on my wedding day, was highly unacceptable.
Lisa seemed amazing, at first. She agr...ees to do my whole wedding for $150. We didn't have a large budget, so this was great! I paid the initial deposit which turned out to be $115. She immediately started sending over ceremonies for us to look over.
Then, I wanted to pay the rest of what I owed and it was another $115. So, $230 in total. It wasn't what we agreed on, but I didn't want to have a confrontation and have bad feelings before my wedding, so I paid it.
Everything seemed to go good after that.
The day before my wedding, Lisa emailed and informed me that she had the flu, but she had found someone to fill in for her. I wasn't given any contact info for this new lady, I was just told that she had all of the details of my wedding and would be there.
I was seriously worried, but trusted Lisa.
No other contact was made until 10 minutes before I was going to walk down the aisle. Yes, TEN MINUTES. And that contact was made by me, in a frantic attempt to let Lisa know that this replacement officiant had not shown up. (I also had ZERO signal to call anyone, so my fingers were crossed that a miracle would happen.)
Luckily, my photographer brought her husband, and while I was running around panicking about no one being there to marry us, she informed me that her husband was registered to officiate, but he had never done a wedding. I quickly shelled out cash (that was supposed to go towards our honeymoon) and gave him my phone with the full ceremony on it. He was so nervous, but we had NO other options.
He took his place to officiate and I started to walk down the aisle. My grandfather and I were walking slowly to "here comes the bride", and a female that I had never seen runs up, grabs the microphone and acts like nothing ever happened. She performed the while ceremony, but would not walk down to where my groom and I were standing. She stood in her own place that she assumed was okay (Because she wasn't there on time!) And she made us walk to her to recite our vows, in which she didn't even hold the microphone for us so that our guests could hear us.
She also didn't know that she had to hold the microphone close to her mouth (again, because she was late) so over half of my ceremony wasn't even heard by my guests.
I did voice all of these concerns with Lisa, over email. I also told her I was afraid that the replacement wouldn't file our marriage license if she caught wind that I was giving negative feedback.
The only thing Lisa came back with was "She is great at what she does and she will file the license. I will call every day to make sure."
She offered no remorse for my wedding day being RUINED. She offered no compensation for VERY POOR planning. She offered NO apologies for the behaviors and lateness of the replacement that SHE vouched for.
I DO NOT recommend Lisa Baker as a wedding officiant. Unprofessional, unapologetic, uncaring and her "word" means nothing.