About Us - Weddings by reverie

A few words about us

And our dreams

Two wedding rings on autumn yellow leaf on green wooden rustic background in the park. Close up.

Why Choose Us?

Love anywhere anytime.

Whether your wedding is large or small, our team of experts can provide the direction you need to have the wedding of your dreams.
Our track record for consistency, service, and expertise help make your reveries a reality. Now that you have chosen to wed the love of your life, we want to be a part of making that dream come true.
Your wedding day will be the most magical day of your life thus far; and it should be personal, beautiful, and memorable.

What we offer

Services

Ceremony Services

Officiants and everything you need

Wedding Ceremonies

At Weddings by reverie, we think that no two couples are alike. So, their ceremonies shouldn’t be, either!

Our trusted group of wedding officiants have the experience, expertise, and passion to help you create the engaging, personal and memorable wedding ceremony of your dreams that you, your family and guests will always remember. Each of our officiants provides you a unique ceremony, professionally delivered wedding ceremonies.

We have over a decade of outstanding service and experience. We are here to help you begin the exciting process of planning your wedding, and we would be honored to be part of the most essential component: your ceremony.

We’ve created an extraordinarily easy and enjoyable system for creating your perfect wedding ceremony, and we’re both privileged and proud to provide our services to all couples. Your guests will always remember how your wedding ceremony was so unique and ideal for you, and with one of our officiants, you’ll have the wedding ceremony of your dreams!

Renewal Ceremonies

Renewing wedding vows can be a meaningful, touching, revivifying ceremony for you and your children, family, and friends. As a married couple, it is a time to pause and reflect on where you have been and where you are going. It is also a wonderful example to set for your children and grandchildren.

Can you imagine a more beautiful scene than children watching their parents joining hands and hearts as they affirm the magnitude and strength of their enduring love? What greater life/love lesson?

We often say at these ceremonies:

True love does not wither or die. It merely ripens.

Afterwards, many couples comment as to how surprisingly romantic it all felt! So, take advantage of a special moment and reflect on the journey life has taken you on so far. This is a special ceremony meant to spark the loving memories of your special day.

House Blessings

If you believe in blessings, consider getting one for your home. It’s a taboo subject for real estate agents. But for many homeowners, it’s a tradition. For centuries, many different cultures have done something strikingly similar to their dwellings: they bless their homes. In the first Century A.D., some early Christians believed sanctifying their homes would ward off evil spirits. Not to be confused with the more popular trend of housewarming parties, house blessings usually involve spiritual aspects.

If you’re going to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in the roof over your family’s head, why not take a few minutes to perform a ritual that could result in serious peace of mind? Here are some things to keep in mind if you’re considering a house blessing.

They are subjective

No one religion lays claim to the house blessing rite, but it’s often associated with Christianity. A typical Christian blessing involves prayer and the sprinkling of holy water. Accessories and clergymen aside, all you really need to perform a house blessing is a dwelling and an intention.

They can happen whenever

House blessings are often performed when homeowners move into new homes, but they can be performed at any time and for any reason. Some churches offer the service every January during the Epiphany, when the wise men visited baby Jesus.

They can be social events

Christians could easily pray over a new home themselves, but there is comfort and joy in the fellowship of praying together—making the practice a social event as well as a spiritual one.

Baptisms /
Baby Dedications

A baby dedication is a ceremony in which believing parents, and sometimes entire families, make a commitment before the Lord to raise that child according to God’s Word and God’s ways. Many Christian churches practice baby dedication instead of infant baptism (also known as Christening) as their primary celebration of a child’s birth into the community of faith. The use of dedication varies widely from denomination to denomination.

Roman Catholics almost universally practice infant baptism, while Protestant denominations more commonly perform baby dedications. Churches that hold baby dedications believe baptism comes later in life as a result of the individual’s own decision to be baptized. The practice of baby dedication is rooted in this passage found in:

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

— Deuteronomy 6:4-7, ESV

Responsibilities involved in baby dedications

Christian parents who dedicate a child are making a promise to the Lord before friends and family to do everything within their power to raise the child in a godly way — prayerfully — until he or she can make a decision on his or her own to follow God. As is the case with infant baptism, it is sometimes customary at this time to name godparents to help raise the child according to godly principles.

Parents who make this vow, or commitment, are instructed to raise the child in the ways of God and not according to their own ways. Some of the responsibilities include teaching and training the child in God’s Word, demonstrating practical examples of godliness, disciplining the child according to God’s ways, and praying for the child.

In practice, the precise meaning of raising a child “in a godly way” can vary widely, depending on the Christian denomination and even on the particular congregation within that denomination. Some groups place more emphasis on discipline and obedience, for example, while others might regard charity and acceptance as superior virtues. The Bible supplies abundant wisdom, guidance, and instruction for Christian parents to draw from. Regardless, the importance of baby dedication lies in the family’s promise to raise their child in a manner consistent with the spiritual community to which they belong, whatever that might be.

The ceremony

A formal baby dedication ceremony can take many forms, depending on the practices and preferences of the parents. It may be a short private ceremony or a gathering of family and friends.

Typically, the ceremony involves the reading of key Bible passages and a verbal exchange in which the officiant asks the parents (and godparents, if so included) if they agree to raise the child according to several criteria.

Sometimes, the entire gathering is welcomed to also respond, indicating their mutual responsibility for the child’s well-being. There may be a ritual handing-off of the infant to the officiant, symbolizing that the child is being offered to God. This may be followed by a final prayer and a gift of some kind being offered to the child and parents, as well as a certificate.

An example of baby dedication in scripture

Hannah, a barren woman, prayed for a child. She made a vow, saying,
“O LORD Almighty, if you will only look upon your servant’s misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the LORD for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head.”
When God answered Hannah’s prayer by giving her a son, she remembered her vow, presenting Samuel to the Lord:
“As surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD. I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him. So now I give him to the LORD. For his whole life he will be given over to the LORD.”
And he worshiped the LORD there.

— 1 Samuel 1:11-28, NIV

Our other services

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Coordinators & Planners

In the first flush of joy after your engagement, you probably began browsing wedding websites, social media sites like Pinterest, and magazines. If you soon felt buried by a blizzard of checklists and a daunting array of decisions, you and your fiancé might want to think about hiring a professional wedding planner or coordinator.

Depending on your budget and needs, you can contract:

a full-service planner to arrange every detail,
someone to assist you only in choosing your wedding location and vendors,
a day-of coordinator.

Our process always begins with getting to know you. We aim to be the ones who help you plan the wedding of your dreams. We offer event planning and design services specializing in weddings. With experience executing high-level events, we combine logistical expertise with effortlessly chic designs. Our events are layered with decor elements that fit your theme/style, when combined, create a cohesive and impactful design.

At the core of our service is a belief that your event should be as unique as you and your story. Leaving your guests with memorable, and sensory experiences, that will stand the test of time.

Security

You can feel secure with Weddings by reverie Security Guards at your event. Weddings, parties, promotional events, corporate meetings. You name it, we’ll secure it for you. And we make it easy.

There’s one thing nobody needs in the midst of planning, promoting, and staging an event–large or small: One more thing to worry about. The job is complicated enough without having to fret about such potential glitches as security guards who just might not make the grade. Maybe you have seen the wrong, poorly trained or inefficient guards at other events, and maybe you know too well the complications they can cause.

That is why we stand ready to take all those worries off your shoulders, with our exceptional corps of Security Guards who are always highly trained, fully insured, absolutely reliable, and–even with all that–surprisingly affordable.

We know that there is something incredibly special about your event, and we believe there should be something very special about your event security, too. If your event requires a rare breed of event security guards who can bring the blend of experience, judgement, sensitivity, efficiency, and professionalism that you expect, and your guests deserve then we have the team for you!

Valet Services

We offer our clients top of the line quality trained, uniformed parking attendants. Your guests will value the way we take care of their vehicles, as well as enhance the first impression of your wedding. We will provide convenient, safe parking for your guests no matter the weather.

Weddings by reverie understands that our valet parking attendants will be the first and last impression your guests have on your special day. Our number one priority will be to ensure that your guests are satisfied with the service we provide. Let us handle all your parking needs so you and your guests can relax and enjoy your big day!

Childcare

Weddings by reverie delivers on-site child care services, providing a nurturing, engaging, and secure setting for kids of all ages during your wedding ceremony and reception. Childcare providers arrive at the event with games, toys, activities, arts & crafts, and music to help keep the young attendees entertained.

Parents, friends and family can be focused on your event knowing that qualified sitters are watching their children safely nearby!

Beer Donkey

Coming soon

Entertaining two different families at your wedding can be hard, and full of potential awkward pauses in conversation. Enter the beer donkeys.

These adorable donkeys dressed up serving beer, wine, soda, or any whatever beverages you provide at your cocktail hour or reception. Your guests can give these long-eared friends a hug, a treat (donkeys love carrots), or they can take a photo to remember the experience. The beverage packs that the donkeys wear amount to only about forty pounds, a negligible amount to their weight and bodies. Care has been put into making sure that the donkeys feel comfortable, safe and calm during ceremonies and parties.

Donkeys have been around forever and have always been working animals, whether that meant carrying a rider, packing supplies or helping out around the farm. Whole economies have relied on donkeys.

Having the Weddings by reverie Beer Donkeys can make your event even more memorable. Everyone wants to get photos with the donkeys, and people get creative with the type of photos they want. It’s easy to see why guests will be talking about “that wedding with the donkey” long after the event.

First Dance Lessons

Make your wedding dance memorable!

Everyone loves to watch the bride and groom share their first dance as a couple. Don’t worry about improvising on the spot.

Tell us your wedding song and we will choreograph and teach you a unique routine for your special day. You and your first dance will shine!

DJ & Music

DJ services provided by the excellent Erie DJ Company.

Why choose us?

Have you ever been to a qedding just to leave at the end of the night saying to yourself “Well, that was just like any other wedding.”?

Our goal is to make sure your guests leave exhausted from dancing all night, saying to themselves “That was one of the best weddings I’ve ever been to!”. With all of our experience DJing weddings, we know how to keep your guests on dance floor without the cheesiness of the “Typical Wedding DJ”.

Collectively our DJs have over 30 years of experience rocking weddings in Erie, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buffalo, & More! Over the years, we have been awarded multiple “Best of Wedding Awards” and one “Weddings Hall of Fame Award” by The Knot. Weddings are our specialty, and we’re fully equipped and insured to make sure your event is memorable, fun and hassle-free.

Who are our DJs?

We only pick the best local DJs and they must be able to rock a dancefloor, while staying true to the client’s requests. All of our award winning DJs have professional experience at weddings & nightclubs and everything in-between. We quote each event individually based on your needs. We can guarantee you are receiving the best possible service and value for your money!

Meet our team

Our officiants and collaborators are always at your disposal to make your wedding day the best!

Officiant

Steve

Officiant

Tracey

Officiant

Brenda

Officiant

Paula Jo

Coordinators & Planners

For your special day's every detail

Wedding Planners

Wedding planners are all about the logistics, from vendor referrals and contract negotiation to day-of execution of your vision. Some planners also provide design or styling services, helping with the creative specifics of your wedding day, while others opt to leave those details to a wedding designer—which means you’ll need to hire two professionals to create the day you’ve dreamed of.

Planners take the guesswork out of the process, making planning a wedding as seamless and smooth as possible. A planner will keep track of your budget and handle the logistics. This is a skill that many can learn, but only the best planners have the years of experience and credentials that set them above the rest.

Be sure to discuss whether your planner offers design services beforehand. If they don’t, you may want to hire a wedding designer as well.

Duties

Puts in 80 to 250 hours.
Provides vendor referrals and negotiates contracts; schedules and attends all vendor meetings.
Creates detailed timelines and floor plans.
Helps determine and manage your budget.
Attends site tours and menu tastings.
Brainstorms style ideas and coordinates design details.
Coordinates hotel room blocks and transportation.
Manages the rehearsal.
Oversees everything on the wedding day:
- Makes sure everyone adheres to the timeline.
- Handles snafus.
- Manages vendors.
- Executes your vision on-site.

Hire a wedding planner if…

You have the budget for it.
You want the least possible amount of wedding-related stress.
You have no free time because of a demanding job.
You have no clue where to start when it comes to planning, and your organizational skills aren’t the greatest.
You have a very short time frame for planning.
You’re throwing a destination wedding and/or a wedding weekend involving multiple events.
You’re hosting your wedding in an unusual space (read: not a hotel, restaurant, or banquet hall).

Wedding Designer

It’s a special type of planner whose role is purely aesthetic and doesn’t include things like contract negotiations or attending appointments alongside the bride. They specialize in design, consulting on everything from floor plans and lighting design to the flowers, furniture, linens, and attire, and they help with the decisions that will give your event a cohesive, stylish, and sophisticated look. A designer has an artistic eye that allows them to conceptualize the whole event and truly transform a space.

Designers normally put in less time than general wedding planners. They carry out the following duties:

Creates the wedding’s design concept.
Provides color palette guidance.
Oversees the decor budget and vendors (florist, rentals, lighting, stationery).
Sources special props and equipment.
Attends a site visit to visualize where you want everything to go, devise a layout, and identify potential problems.
Creates detailed floor plans.
Ensures all of the decor elements are in place on-site at the wedding.

You should hire one if:

Decor is an extremely important element of the wedding for you.
You feel you need help boosting your creative skills.
You have a million style ideas that you can’t narrow down.
You’re trying to pull off a very specific or complex theme.

Wedding Coordinators

A wedding coordinator (also referred to as a day-of wedding coordinator) is logistically focused, and works on a shorter timeline than a planner. They usually begin helping you prepare a month before the wedding and function as the point person on the wedding day. They will confirm vendor contracts and create a day-of timeline, as well as make sure things like payments and guest counts are in order, but won’t be involved in the earlier planning phases or keeping track of your budget.

Coordinators make sure everything you’ve done up until they take over is in good shape. Hiring a coordinator to take over the month before your wedding gives them time to tweak any details and follow up on loose ends. Everything is in order, nothing is forgotten, and you’re free to enjoy your wedding day.

Duties

Puts in approximately 10 – 20 hours.
Meets with you before the wedding to get a handle on what you’ve planned.
Checks in with your vendors to review confirm logistics.
Reviews detailed timelines and floor plans.
Completes a final walk-through of the ceremony and reception sites.
Addresses any overlooked details (e.g. if you forgot to hire a coat check attendant).
Manages the rehearsal.
Oversees everything on the wedding day.

Hire a wedding coordinator if…

You want to play an active role in planning your wedding but would like someone to take care of the last-minute details and make sure you haven’t missed anything.
You’re extremely organized and detail-oriented.
You don’t have the budget for a full-service wedding planner.

NOTE

For liability reasons, our coordinators cannot serve food or drinks to guests, bus tables, hang anything decorations that require a ladder or move anything that is heavy enough to require machinery.

What is the difference between a day-of wedding coordinator and a wedding planner?

Wedding
Planner

Wedding
Coordinator

A full-service wedding planner basically handles everything for the couple, from start to finish. A wedding planner’s tasks include the overall design and vision of wedding, keeping the couples within their budgets, contract negotiations, the hiring of vendors, as well as execution of the event vision on the day of the wedding.

In contrast to planners, a wedding day coordinator will jump into the process a few weeks prior the big day, usually to help those couples who are planning the wedding themselves. Yes, there is help for those couples who are planning their weddings on their own!

A coordinator will be logistically focused and available to you to get everything organized as you lead up to the day of the wedding. They are there to take over on the day of the wedding to ensure that all details that are planned, are executed. As we like to say, a day-of coordinator is essential for any couple who wants to do most of the planning themselves, but when their wedding day arrives, they need a professional to execute all of their hard work and planning. Having a professional such as a day-of wedding coordinator there to handle the logistics is so essential because a wedding couple should be able to enjoy themselves at their wedding and not worry about anything!

At what point in the wedding planning process does a day-of wedding coordinator come in?

A coordinator really comes into the process depending upon the needs of the couple. We have couples who book our services a year out from their wedding date because they already know the value of having a day-of wedding coordinator and want to ensure we are available for them on the day of the wedding. We also have couples who call us closer to their wedding, like two months out let’s say, which usually happens as their stress begins to mount and they realize they need help. They start to worry about details and aren’t sure how it will come together in the end so hiring us helps to alleviate that.

What does a day-of coordinator do to help the couples who are choosing to plan their own weddings ?

Weddings by reverie will take the day-of coordination a step further in these situations to help guide our couples through their planning process. We become a resource for them and remove some stress as they know we are just a phone call or text away! From the time of the contract, we do monthly check-ins, provide amazing vendor recommendations, give advice and guidance through their planning process while providing wedding day management on the day of the wedding. Our main goal is to ensure that our clients feel like actual guests at their own wedding!

Organization and attention to detail are key! This is a first time process for most wedding couples so that they are truly flying blind through the planning. With this in mind, we always recommend helpful ways to simplify planning. The guest list, floorplan design, seating arrangements, and timeline tools are invaluable throughout the planning process.

As the wedding day approaches, we construct a detailed timeline and run of show for the day of the wedding, confirm and manage all wedding vendors, and become their point of contact on the wedding day. We monitor and setup the wedding details, organize the bridal party and family for the ceremony as well as do damage control for anything that might come up on the day of the wedding. Think of day-of coordinators as your own personal wedding day ninja! Basically, we take the wedding you have spent the last year or so diligently planning come to life and without a hitch!

1. Book ahead of time

Whether you’re hiring a wedding planner, designer, or coordinator, it’s best to secure them as soon as you know your wedding date—even if they aren’t getting involved until the month before. This tactic also can help you get the most for your money. If a couple books us early, we’re happy to provide them with our list of performance-driven vendor recommendations.

2. Consider the cost

For the most part, full-service wedding production and design runs approximately 15% to 20% of the total wedding cost, depending on the planner’s experience, what region they’re based in, and how much time your wedding demands.

3. Vet your pros

Always read reviews and politely ask for references from other vendors and couples. We take great care in ensuring our collaborators are only the best in their expertise, and clients are free to make sure of that on their own. Furthermore,

4. Always put someone in charge of day-of tasks

Someone needs to make sure the wedding day itself runs smoothly and that everything you’ve planned is executed properly. But what if a professional wedding planner is not in your budget?

While most venue coordinators and catering managers are happy to handle basic on-site logistics and simple setups, keep in mind that they’re there for a task they were hired for. This means that they’re making sure the food is served on time, not that the DJ is playing the right songs or that there are enough pens for the guest book.

It’s helpful to tell them that you don’t have a planner and won’t be securing one, as they will do as much as they can for you. However, the best option is still to ask a responsible, trusted friend to handle a few important tasks, like managing the timeline or handling any issues that arise with vendors, and then to thank the person with a gift or favor.

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A few words about us

And our dreams

Why Choose Us?

Love anywhere anytime.

Tamer, Tracey and Steve

What we offer

Services

Ceremony Services

Officiants and everything you need

Wedding Ceremonies

Our other services

Especially for you ♥

Coordinators & Planners

Meet our team

Steve

Tracey

Brenda

Paula Jo

Legal

Coordinators & Planners

For your special day's every detail

Wedding Planners

Duties

Hire a wedding planner if…

Wedding Designer