Serving a diverse community since 2004, with over 700 satisfied couples

 

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Whether you're having a Maryland Wedding, a Washington DC Wedding, or a Virginia Wedding; taking steps to bond your partnership is the beginning of showing your love and commitment to each other.  It is the building blocks of creation that bonds two souls together for life.  

My service as a wedding minister and wedding officiant, is to help you carve and shape your ceremony into a reflection of your love.  I will work with you to create a uniquely special celebration that demonstrates who you are today, who you are becoming tomorrow, and who you where in the past.  

Even if you choose not to participate in the writing of your ceremony, I will create one for you that's built from our dialogue and reveals to me your inner feelings, uniqueness, beauty, and beliefs.  Either way, your ceremony will show a glimpse into your future.

Christian

Non-denominational

Interfaith

Civil

Traditional

Commitment Ceremonies 

Spiritual

Vow Renewal

 

As a traveling minister, I will come to your wedding site.  A site can be a home, garden, park, banquet hall, country club, ballroom, hotel, restaurant, yacht, or a hotel suite.

 

By letting me know where, when, and how to get there, will put me at the right place, at the right time.

 

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Fees:   Maryland Weddings, Virginia Weddings, Washington DC Weddings 

 

Small - Large Weddings

$435 (Within the Washington DC & Baltimore City Areas)

$435 to $895 (Outside the DC Metropolitan Area)

 

Rehearsals (same venue as wedding)

$150 (Within the Washington DC & Baltimore City Areas)

 

If you are eloping extemporaneously or planning a wedding, please call for my availability.

 

Monday - Sunday

10:00 am - 9:00 pm

(202) 253-3629

 

Eloping is one way to reduce the stress and cost of a wedding.  If money is an issue for you right now (buying a house more important), advice is coming to you from everywhere, and you feel the need to escape it all; consider eloping in Maryland.  Elopement ceremonies can still have that personalized flair.

 

After booking my services you will receive a free ceremony workbook with sample ceremonies and premarital questionnaire.

 

Please Note:  All ceremonies require a valid marriage license or original marriage certificate (for previously married couples) that must be presented to me prior to my officiating your wedding ceremony. For marriage licensing procedures, please check with the marriage bureau of the circuit court in the jurisdiction in which you are planning to get married, or click the above link.

 

The above fees are based on my experience, writing and revising the ceremony, traveling to and from the wedding site, rehearsal attendance, wedding party direction and coordination, my time corresponding with you, filing the county marriage license, officiating the ceremony, advertising cost, website hosting, 5% cost of living increase, other logistics, and (if applicable) a holiday wedding fee ($60 is added to the base cost).

 

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I am, Reverend Starlene Joyner Burns a Nondenominational - Interfaith wedding minister, wedding celebrant,  and wedding officiant.  In addition, I am the founder and director of SJB Ministries LLC; and the founder of God's Center for Divine Healing.  The healing center is dedicated to providing distant healing energy and prayer to those outside the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. 

 

I studied four consecutive years to become an ordained minister of Spiritual Science.  Prior to that I was ordained in the Christian faith.  With more than six years of experience, I am prepared for the responsibility of an interfaith - nondenominational wedding minister.  In addition, I received further training in the administration of the holy sacraments, (weddings, baby blessings, private baptisms, memorials, funerals (including pets), and other rites of passage), under the direction of a well known master administrator of the rites of passage.   I am compassionate, ethical, and professional.  As a wedding officiant, I will work hard with you to ensure that your wedding ceremony is memorable.

 

 

As a licensed minister, I am authorized to perform wedding ceremonies in Maryland.  Finally, I am registered in Washington DC and Virginia to perform marriages.  If you are having a Maryland Wedding, DC Wedding, or a Virginia Wedding; call me.

 

For a list of recommended vendors, please visit the vendors page.  The vendors listed on that page are only suggestions to simplify your task.  Please feel free to select your own vendor.  

 

Meanwhile, visit my article's page and learn how to start your wedding on time.

And if you would like to read my 5 star reviews, click the link.  

 

 

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The territory in which I will be offering my services as a wedding minister and wedding officiant are:  parts of Southern Maryland that includes;  Prince Georges County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County, and Charles County.  In addition, I will extend my area of coverage to; Montgomery County, MD; Howard County, MD; Anne Arundel County, MD; Frederick County, MD; Carroll County, MD; Baltimore County, MD; Baltimore City; MD; Arlington County, VA, Fairfax County, VA; Alexandria, VA; and Washington, DC.

 

Premarital coaching is available, but not required.  For additional information, kindly click the coaching link at the top of the page.

   

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Meeting (Initial Consultation)

 

Once we have agreed on a meeting date and time; kindly confirm it with me the day before or the morning (after 10:00 am) of our meeting.  This way I will know that you are sincere about your wedding plans and meeting with me.  If I do not hear from you, I will assume that you are no longer interested in my services.

 

All meetings are held at Panera Bread in the Vista Gardens Marketplace:  10531 Martin Luther King Jr. Highway, Bowie, MD  20720.  This shopping center is adjacent to my community.  And there are times when I hold meetings in my home or via Skype. 

 

If you would like to reserve my services at the end of our meeting, you will need and a $100 cash deposit.  Checks and money orders are also accepted. 

 

 

 

 

Click here for directions to my home office.