Most clients are shocked if I tell them in the introductory interview that I have criteria for my clients.
Most of them don't choose to have a contract with me, but when they do, once again they are surprised.
My contracts detail their work as well as mine and spell out the consequences of not doing the work.
It's always an attention grabber! Here are the three things that I find make you good clients.
And by good clients I mean those who really want a wedding ceremony that will move them from engaged to married and wedding vows that will form the basis of their lifelong marriage.
What's important for you to bring to the table with your wedding celebrant?

1. The willingness to do the work to create a vibrant, personal wedding ceremony.
   This means you'll have to do homework.
   It means multiple meetings with your celebrant, even if they're only virtual meetings.
   It means reworking and deleting and making inspired additions to the ceremony that will change your lives and join your futures.
   
2. The tendency and the willingness to be self-reflective people who will understand their gifts, their strengths and their weaknesses so that they can build effective wedding vows that will carry them through a lifetime of happy and productive marriage.
   I want people to know not only who they are, but also how they got here and why they are exactly right for each other.
   And if they don't know the answer to those questions at the initial meeting, I want them to leave in a hurry to find out more about themselves and this amazing person they are marrying.
   
3. The understanding that the wedding ceremony is the heart of the wedding day and the marriage its focus.
   (right, rather than the party.
   ) The majority of the wedding planning books and sites cast only the most casual sideways glance at the wedding ceremony as they're exclaiming over the importance of favors.
   If you stop and stay at the ceremony, the rest of the wedding will lead out from that.
   Plan your wedding ceremony first and be inspired by what seems like a wonderful way to connect the ceremony to the rest of the day.
   

The wonderful thing about being the right wedding clients for the right wedding celebrant; you'll have a great wedding ceremony that will touch and inspire your community.
You'll have wedding vows that you can live into forever.
And you'll know yourselves as individuals and as a couple and be known by your wedding celebrant in ways you hadn't dreamed possible, but now seems exactly right.