Below are some recent reviews of my services. Please feel free to peruse my reviews at the source by visiting my pages on The Knot, WeddingWire, or Google.
For the TL;DR crowd, I made a helpful word cloud of the most common adjectives (plus a few choice nouns and verbs) used in my reviews.
My wife and I are notoriously difficult to please but we could not be more thrilled with the services provided by Tim. Tim’s officiating of our wedding could not have been more heartfelt or beautiful. It was truly wonderful and we shall be forever grateful to him for making our big day perfect. Trust me when I say that every one of our guests we’ve talked to agree that the ceremony couldn’t have been more amazing and it’s all thanks to Tim. We will always look back fondly on the brief time we were lucky enough to have met Tim and have him involved in our lives forever. Thank you Tim, and thank you for caring.
It was very important to George and I to have an intimate non-religious ceremony. After an hour long conversation with Tim, I knew he was our guy. He allowed us to create our own day while still keeping it structured. When the big day happened, I was so filled with emotion and absolute happiness. Tim pulled it off and we even lived out of state! My favorite part is when he read our “Why We Want to Marry” emails. George said things in that letter to Tim I never knew he felt. Tim is amazing!
Honestly, my fiancé (at the time, now my lovely wife of course!) found you and filled me in on your background. I liked what I heard and was totally onboard. The first time I met you was about an hour before I got married. When you introduced yourself it was like we were already best friends and started a bromance! We didn’t have a rehearsal, so we filled each other in on what we wanted to have happen. It went off without a hitch! Your readings and adlibs of our personal stories were great. I wouldn’t have changed a thing. Tim Greathouse, as advertised in his name, simply just GREAT!
Tim took time out of his day to meet with us a few weeks prior to our wedding day and answered all of our questions. He was also kind enough to find time to rehearse with us in the afternoon the day before our wedding. He did a wonderful job personalizing our ceremony. Our guests really enjoyed his reading and remarked on how memorable our ceremony was. Thanks so much for helping us start our life together as husband and wife!
Tim was absolutely wonderful! For the last year of planning my wedding I had a great deal of trouble finding the perfect person to officiate our special day. My husband and family is Christian and I do not claim a religion. I wanted to satisfy everyone. I was in such a bind that I had at one point asked a good friend to do the wedding but I really wanted a real officiant. Only a month before my wedding my mom told me to just give time a call and see if he’s free. I emailed Tim and told him my situation. He was great! Tim was able to squeeze us in before another ceremony. I was so thankful! I met Tim right before the wedding started, while sitting in my limo. He was very calm which helped my nerves and we practiced saying my vows. The wedding went off without a hitch and I was more than pleased with him! Thanks again Tim! You made my special day even more special!
We’ve attended a lot of weddings and it always seems to be the same thing over and over again. We would like to think of ourselves as a special couple and Tim gave us the chance to express this. We’ve been married for going on two weeks now and we’ve had numerous people who attended our wedding tell us how personalized the entire ceremony was. Tim put us both at ease and we were able to relax during our ceremony. It felt as though Justin and I were not just going through the motions of a wedding ceremony, we were two people who honestly love each other getting married. We both feel very lucky to have found someone as wonderful as Tim to be such an important part of our perfect day.
On 6 August 2011 Tim Greathouse married me to the love of my life. I had been waiting to write this review for two reasons: 1. My life has been a whirlwind since the wedding and time is hard to come by. 2. I wanted to give this review the thought and time needed to convey the amazing job Mr. Greathouse did. Let’s start at the beginning. My wife found Tim online when searching for an officiant for our wedding. She had been searching for awhile and was impressed by his website and the information he shared. We thought his background and what started it all was very impressive and got a kick out of his frequently asked questions. We were surprised to learn that Tim’s house was actually not all that great, but merely adequate! After perusing his website we decided that we would like to meet him in person so my wife emailed him to set up an appointment. As we live in Columbus, we had to schedule our meeting on a weekend in order to combine it with our vendors. (Note: I do not consider Tim as a just a “Vendor”) It was an early Saturday morning when we met Tim at a Starbucks right outside of Akron. When we walked in and saw him walking over to greet us, the first thing I thought was “Wow…he looks like a slim version of Al Borland!”. We proceeded to tell him about ourselves and he in turn discussed his background and his process for a ceremony. My wife had an idea in mind on how she envisioned our ceremony to go and had actually picked a “canned ceremony” script out that she liked. Tim then went on to inform us that he does not work with them. He further explained how he takes his duty and responsibility very seriously and it reflects not only the couple he marries but himself as an officiant. He further went on to tell us that he does not share his entire ceremony with the couple beforehand. Hearing this, it kind of scared us as we did not know what we would be getting. We soon said our goodbyes and watched Tim drive away. We got back into my wife’s Toyota Prius and looked at each other as my wife asked “What did you think?”. I replied “I really liked him, I think he is our guy” She knew it too as she responded that she “LOVED HIM!”. My one condition upon hiring Tim, which he already addressed on his website, was that he does not shave the beard! As the months passed and our wedding day got closer, Tim was sure to stay in touch with us and make sure we were comfortable which was a huge relief. He provided questionnaires to us so that he could better understand who we were individually and who we were as a couple. Fast forward to the rehearsal. As we stood there going through the process he was thorough in explaining how the ceremony would go. He was the perfect balance of seriousness and comedy to keep us informed yet calm while providing a good laugh for everyone around. As we were having an outdoor wedding I asked him about “if it rains.” He replied that in all his time he has never had it rain on one of his weddings… Fast forward to the ceremony, Tim was coming from another wedding he preformed earlier in the day. He scheduled more than enough time to ensure that he was extremely early. He helped to make sure everything was set up, not only for him but the DJ as well. As it ticked closer to the start of the ceremony, that beautiful sky quickly turned dark and grey. Just before my wife arrived it started….it was a downpour! Quickly the guest fled for cover. There is no greater feeling then being crammed into a 50 person shelter with 150 of your closest friends and relatives on your wedding day! As our wedding was a few miles away from our backup site, we had made the decision earlier to go with the outdoor ceremony and did not set up the backup site. We were not sure what to do and nobody was making a decision. Tim, being the calm guy he is, took charge in assisting us in making things work. He went to my wife who was waiting in the limo and calmed her down. He advised us on rounding up the party and moving them back to the reception facility. He made sure I was ok and that at the end of the day, I would still be getting married! Once back at the reception site he rounded up the guests, got everyone in their places and started the show! I have written a lot already regarding Tim but words truly could not do justice to the ceremony he preformed. It was intimate and personal. It was comical and sappy. It was perfect! I could not have asked for a more perfect person to marry me to my wife! After the wedding we heard over and over and over from our guests how amazing the ceremony was. It made the guests forget about all they had gone through prior to the ceremony. Tim would go on to tell us it was us, but our wedding most certainly would not be what it was without the addition of Tim Greathouse! If you are having any doubts what-so-ever about whom you would like to marry you, I could not recommend anyone any more then I would recommend Tim. He is by far the best officiant I have ever witnessed and more importantly, a great person!
Tim Greathouse was everything we could have asked for and more. His amazing and personal ceremony captured the love and devotion we share with each other. He provided us a truly memorable experience which highlighted everything we wanted in our ceremony without including anything we didn’t want. Tim is exactly what we were looking for in an officiant and we would definitely recommend him to anyone looking for a secular alternative who wants a more beautiful and personal touch than what a JP will offer. He took the time to get to know us and what we wanted at our wedding and that made all the difference. We couldn’t have been more pleased by the way he helped on the day of the wedding to make sure all the little things went just right. P.S. We challenge you to find an officiant with better facial hair.
I cannot even count how many friends and family members came up to my wife and I to tell us that our ceremony was the most beautiful and touching of any they had ever been too. Tim’s approach to how a wedding should and could be done appealed to everyone, young and old. There were light-hearted moments where we laughed out loud and touching moments that brought a tear to every eye in the house. You could tell every word Tim said came from the heart, it wasn’t just somebody standing there dryly reading words off a page. It felt as though Tim actually cares about and loves what he’s doing, a quality that instantly makes you feel comfortable even at one of the most nerve-racking moments of your life. In addition, Tim was amazingly easy to work with. He was always fast to respond when we had questions, open to any and all ideas we pitched his way and just a general joy to talk to. Not only did we find an amazing officiant but also an amazing new friend.
Let me begin by telling you that Tim “rocked the house” at Stephanie & Ian’s wedding! I’m sure many of my family members did not know what to expect when they were invited to a wedding that was not in a church. I don’t think a lot of them had ever been to a secular wedding and frankly I think they were blown away to find out that just because a wedding isn’t in a church and does not involve a specific religion does not mean that it can’t be beautiful and meaningful. I think the thing that sums it up best is that my dad (Stephanie’s grandpa who will be 88 next month) was so moved by the ceremony that he got all choked up and could barely tell Tim what a great job he did. When you make grown men cry at a ceremony (and not just my dad there were others too) I think that says it all. Honestly everyone talked about how beautiful the ceremony was – even at the end of the reception they were still talking about it. Even today (weeks later) people are still talking about it!! The readings (Victor Hugo chosen by Tim and Dr. Seuss chosen by Stephanie and Ian) and the non-traditional but wonderful questions of intent and vows were the perfect mix of beauty, elegance, seriousness and laughter – just like the bride and groom!! Thank you Tim for finding a way to bring all of those things together. I don’t know how you do it but you do it well!