Welcome to our website

We are "Beachpeople", and we offer you simply the best, most fun, romantic and intimate wedding ceremonies this side of the Atlantic Ocean! While many other wedding services are willing to go to a beach to perform your ceremony, (usually for an added price...), we are the Real Deal! No added cost, and no lily white feet to be found under our shoes: we don't wear shoes! We are sailing, surfing, sea shell hunting, wave riding, sand castle building, sunset watching beach people through and through!

My guess is that you've been looking at wedding websites until your eyes cross, and now the fates have brought you here to me! I'll bet this is not the first wedding site you've looked at, but I'm sure hoping that with a little gumption on your part...(and some willingness to let your inner child loose), it might be the last!

Just so you feel you've found the right place, let me tell you that I didn't just ride into town on the back of a rutabaga truck! (Well, maybe I did..) I've married ~~almost~~ over 3000 couples over the years, and was venturing out to beaches, parks, and gardens performing weddings before it became the cool thing to do. I've married all kinds of people; tall, short, rich, poor, skinny, not so skinny, white, brown, yellow, red, black, multi colored, and maybe even a few who wanted to be invisible!

But one thing they all had in common was a desire to have a fun, simple, relaxed, spirited, and human wedding ceremony that was long on love and short on tension. I'd like to think that I delivered on that desire, and if it didn't come to pass, that was only because the couple didn't give themselves permission to relax and simply love each other.

Painless weddings? You're looking skeptical. And why shouldn't you? Words are cheap, and promises come easy these days. I'm sure you've had friends planning a wedding who got so stressed, they wanted to climb on top of all their wedding lists and jump off just to end it all! Wedding planning will do that to people.

So I guess I'll have to admit there might be some pain in the process, but now that you've met me, you might see that there's light at the end of the tunnel! With me, your wedding ceremony will laid back and relaxed, and you'll always have my permission to have some fun along the way. Why? Because during your wedding ceremony I will be feeling the same things that you are, and I prefer it not be the urge to vomit.

If you trust and let go, the rest will fall into place just fine, all by itself. I've seen it happen thousands of times.

My specialty is in providing an atmosphere of warmth, humor, love, simplicity, and a unique moment in time for the both of you. If you are feeling pressured over something in this process, give it the boot. Toss it out. Move on.

This is your wedding, and it ain't nobody's dang business what you do, say, wear, or believe in. In order to have success in realizing your romantic dream wedding, you have to know only one thing: nuthin'! You don't even have to suspect anything.

All you need is each other, maybe some rings, and a desire to tell that one person how much you love them, how much they mean to you, and that forever is about as far as you'll go to do it. I'll do the rest.

I'm not the normal, regular stuffed shirt one size fits all wedding officiant (incase you hadn't figured that one out on your own!), but a very laid back beach-sand and bluegrass bohemian who has always marched to the beat of his own drum. Maybe that's why I like drumming so much!

(So for those reason's, I'm probably not the best choice for any Bridezilla's out there...)

About now you're wondering if I'm for real, or if you should take a chance and hire me to perform your wedding ceremony. (Or maybe you're thinking I should be confined somewhere!) But maybe deep down inside, you're starting to find yourself getting filled with excitement instead of the usually wedding dread!

So are you about ready to move on to yet another wedding website, or are we a fit? You'll never know until you roll up your sleeves, throw caution to the wind and give me call!

On this website, you'll find plenty of information to help plan your special wedding event, and we offer many diverse and interesting options that I'm quite sure you'll be hard pressed to find

anywhere else! You'll find links for area locations, our low cost photography options, and my fees listed on the navigation at the top of each page.

And while you might find cheaper (or more expensive) wedding officiants, you won't find any that are quite like me! Remember that your wedding only happens once...

My ordination and spiritual practices lie in healing energy, so manifesting love, having fun (and being yourself) are big parts of our spiritual view!

I'm ordained by a North Carolina based non-profit organization called LEWA, who work to support, encourage, and coordinate professional and educational opportunities for Reiki and healing practitioners in alternative and holistic, energy based spiritual healing. In other words, I have to prove that I do what I claim, and desiring to be a wedding officiant by itself is not sufficient for ordination. I'm not an "one click" internet ordained minister, pastor, or priest!

Now, if you have a need for a denominational tone to your ceremony, I would advise you to go elsewhere to find your officiant. I just do not look or sound like a Catholic priest, a denominational minister, a rabbi, or an imam, and I approach your wedding as a holistic celebrant rather than a holy person. So, if you feel that positive energy fulfills your spiritual needs, I might just be the old beach hippie to perform your ceremony!

I am authorized by the states of North and South Carolina to legally solemnize the vows of marriage. I also perform various healing spirit and energy related services, rituals, and ceremonies in my community, but my foremost interests lie in rhythm spirit healing through both ritual and as trained Health Rhythm Drum Facilitators. I am constantly seeking to discover new and exciting methods to offer healing through energy based modalities including Reiki and Drumming Reiki.

As Pop-Eye says, "I yam what I yam", and truly practice what I proclaim- otherwise I would merely be a script reading fraud. As I've grown older, I've found that it's very important to be completely honest and open, and if my true spiritual views are in conflict with what is coming out of my mouth at your wedding, then this is not right at some level, and my spirit will be forced into a lie. I've found that my spirit is too important to damage or taint, especially for financial gain. By being true to myself, I go to a place where my inner child is doing the ceremony, and the Universal Energy reaches out to everyone present to create a relaxing, spiritual, and very human moment in time!

So what are you waiting for?

revtowne@aol.com or 910-575-8171