"If you
do only one thing for your St. John wedding, pick Anne Marie
Porter as your wedding officiant. She is amazing. The ceremony
was beautiful and meaningful and felt perfectly fit to us. Anne
Marie is so helpful, so genuine, so good at what she does, and
seems to enjoy her work so much that it isn't like work at all.
I was very worried about picking someone I didn't know off of
the internet and sending her $400. I'm skeptical by nature,
but I can promise that you don't have to worry about that in
this case. Pick her. You will be so glad you did - in every
facet of your wedding planning, but especially on your wedding
day. We planned our wedding about six months in advance since
it was a just-the-two of us event. I am very organized and like
everything planned carefully. Anne Marie catered to this, even
though everyone else in St. John is on island time. Anne Marie
either picked up her phone or returned my calls immediately.
She was responsive to emails, questions, concerns, requests
for recommendations, etc. I really put her to the test when
I panicked the night before a 9am wedding about transportation.
(We thought getting a taxi in St. John would be like it is at
home in Colorado, but it's different. The taxis are vans and
they usually wait to fill up the whole van before taking you
to your destination. I was worried that we wouldn't be able
to get to the ceremony in time.) Anne Marie answered her phone
at 9pm and calmly listened and offered me multiple options.
We found a solution that required her flexibility, and she made
the accommodation like it was nothing at all. But it was a huge
deal! I slept so much better that night and truly had the most
beautiful, peaceful wedding that I could have imagined. The
ceremony was perfect. The location Anne Marie helped us pick
was perfect. I cried through the entire thing (which was unexpected
to me) in large part because of how special Anne Marie helped
it to feel and the amazing words she said."
Shannon & Bryan
Colorado Springs, CO
