If you are, and hired a minister/priest/rabbi aside from the church/synagouge they charge you a fee let's say between $400-$500, and they are taking that not donating it should you tip them as well??
nferrandi
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I'm not planning on tipping them. I feel like they're making more than enough money for 20 minutes of service.
brideinapril
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I had a judge, his fee was $300 and that is all we gave him, no tip.
dkwife
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Mine is charging me 650 plus 100 transportation fee... I am inviting her to the cocktail hour, that is tip enough!!
oakslady
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my revrend told us that shew usually gets between x and y but we should give her whatever we feel it is worth --- i think that is a great way to do it - we are actually giving her a bit more cause she has been so great - and we invited her and her husband to the reception
Corduroy94
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Our minister is a personal friend who is flying in for the wedding. He told us he would prefer we make a contribution to their favorite charity in an undisclosed ammount & to 'tip' them so to speak we are paying for their hotel - but they won't find this out till they go to check in!
Our friends are paying $250 for a Lutheran minister (who was refered to them by a friend) & since this goes directly into his pocket - no tax - they are making a donation to a Lutheran missionary in India. I think it's $200 in th minister's name.
no stress bride
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The Judge we are using is a family friend of my family and we are going to give him a Gift Certificate only cause I know that he will not except money from us plus him and his wife are also invited to the wedding!!
JuneBabyBride
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Thanks ladies, so I guess the money he wanted that goes in his pocket should be enough, I don't know him, he was recommened but I have only met him once in the year I have had him booked.
nferrandi
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We've had ours since November and we haven't even met them yet. I keep calling and the Rev. tells me to call back in a few months. He said we'll set up a meeting after the school year, so we'll probably only see him once, maybe twice before the wedding.
Leslie
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We're paying our minister $300 and inviting him (and his wife) to our reception.
I'm not planning on tipping.....
btrflygrl
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DH wanted a friend of a friend that lived in CA, so we flew him and his wife and put them up in the hotel for 4 nights. They came to our RD and they came to the wedding. We also paid him $200 for performing our service...so all in all our Pastor cost us about $1400. It was well worth it because he performed the most beautiful ceremony!
