The plain-language ground rules.

1. Agreement to these terms

By visiting officiantdoug.com or learn.officiantdoug.com, submitting the contact form, requesting a chapel time, purchasing a course, or otherwise using anything we offer, you agree to these Terms of Use and Service. If you do not agree with them, please do not use our sites or services — you are always welcome to reach us directly by phone or email instead.

These terms apply to our websites and to the courses and digital materials we sell. If you go on to book a ceremony, a separate service agreement will cover the details of that booking. Where the two ever differ, your signed service agreement controls the ceremony, and these terms continue to govern your use of the websites and courses.

If these terms are treated as an offer, acceptance is limited to these terms as written.

2. Who we are

Our websites are operated by Officiant Doug, LLC, a wedding officiant and premarital education business based at 455 Harrison Ave, Suite H, Panama City, FL 32401, serving couples throughout Florida, Alabama, and Georgia. In these terms, “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Officiant Doug, LLC, and “you” refers to the person using our sites, inquiring about services, or enrolling in a course.

3. What these terms cover

We do three related things, and these terms cover all of them:

• Our websites — officiantdoug.com, learn.officiantdoug.com, and any other site or page we operate.
• Ceremony services — writing and performing weddings, elopements, vow renewals, and related ceremonies.
• Online courses and digital materials — including our premarital course, Your Story, Together, along with any workbooks, videos, downloads, or certificates that come with it.

Where a section applies to only one of these, we say so. Everything else applies across the board.

You need to be at least eighteen years old, or otherwise at the age of majority where you live, to use our sites or buy anything from us. Our services are intended for adults arranging a ceremony or preparing for marriage. If you use our sites on behalf of someone else, you confirm you have their permission to share their details with us.

4. Using our websites

You are welcome to browse our sites, read them, print pages for your own planning, and share links to them. In return, we ask that you use them in good faith and in accordance with Section 18.

5. Inquiries, availability, and booking

Information on our websites — including described ceremony types, chapel options, course descriptions, and any pricing shown — is provided for general information and is not a binding offer. Availability shown on the booking calendar reflects what is open at that moment and can change while you are looking at it.

Submitting the contact form, requesting a chapel appointment, or exchanging messages with us does not by itself reserve your date. A date is held only once we have confirmed it with you in writing and any required agreement and retainer are in place, as described in your service agreement.

If a date matters to you, the safest thing is to reach out early and get written confirmation. Popular dates in this area go quickly.

6. Ceremony services

We provide officiant services for weddings, elopements, vow renewals, and related ceremonies, including writing and performing the ceremony and, where applicable, completing and returning your marriage license to the issuing authority.

Every ceremony is prepared individually. Descriptions, sample wording, and photographs on our sites illustrate past work and possible approaches; your ceremony will be built around your own plans, and the specifics of what is included are set out in your service agreement rather than on this page.

We reserve the right to decline or discontinue service where a request falls outside what we are able to perform lawfully or in good conscience, where safety is a concern, or where conduct toward us or others involved is abusive. In that situation we will tell you promptly and handle any refund according to your service agreement.

7. Online courses: enrollment and access

When you enroll in one of our courses, you are buying access to the course as it exists at the time of purchase, for your own personal use in preparing for your own marriage.

A few things worth knowing up front:

• What you get. Access to the video lessons, the couple’s workbook, and any downloads listed on the course page, delivered online. What is included is described on the course sales page at the time you buy.
• One enrollment, one couple. A single enrollment covers you and your partner. You may share your access with your partner; you may not share it with anyone else.
• How long access lasts. Your access continues for the period stated on the course page. If no period is stated, access continues for as long as we offer the course, which we do not guarantee indefinitely.
• The course may change. We update lessons, materials, and pricing as the law, our teaching, and the tools we use evolve. Updates released while you have access are yours at no extra charge. We may also retire or discontinue a course; if we retire a course you are actively enrolled in, we will give you reasonable notice and a fair opportunity to finish or download your materials.
• Completing it is up to you. We provide the material and the structure. We cannot guarantee any particular outcome for your relationship, your marriage, or your license application.

8. Your course account and the course platform

Our courses are delivered through a third-party learning platform. Creating an account on that platform is required in order to take a course, and that platform’s own terms and privacy practices apply to your account there alongside these terms.

You are responsible for keeping your login details accurate and confidential, and for anything that happens under your account. Please tell us right away if you think someone else has gained access to it.

We do not control the platform’s uptime, features, or how long it remains available. If it goes down, we will do what we reasonably can to restore access or get you your materials another way.

9. What you may and may not do with course material

The videos, workbook, worksheets, readings, scripts, and other course materials are ours, or used with permission, and are protected by copyright.

You may: watch the lessons, download and print the workbook and any materials marked as downloadable, complete them, and keep your own filled-in copies for your personal use.

Please do not: copy, republish, resell, sublicense, or give away the course or its materials; record, screenshot, or re-upload the videos; share your login or otherwise let people outside your enrollment use the course; or use the material — including feeding it into an AI tool — to build, train, generate, or sell anything that competes with it.

If you would like to use our material with a group, a congregation, or a class, just ask. We are often glad to arrange it in writing.

10. Certificates of completion

Our premarital course is designed to meet the requirements of Florida Statute § 741.0305 for premarital preparation courses, and we issue a certificate of completion when you finish it.

Two honest caveats. First, the certificate confirms that you completed our course; the county clerk’s office makes the final determination about whether to apply any license fee reduction or waiting-period change to your marriage license, and their requirements can change. Second, we cannot issue a certificate for a course that was not actually completed, and we cannot backdate one. Please confirm current requirements with your issuing clerk before you rely on a certificate for a particular date.

11. Your responsibilities

A ceremony and a course both depend on a few things only you can take care of:

• Accurate information. Names, dates, times, locations, contact details, and billing information you give us need to be correct and kept up to date.
• Your marriage license. Obtaining a valid marriage license from the appropriate county or authority, meeting any eligibility and waiting-period requirements, and bringing the license to the ceremony are your responsibility. Without a valid license in hand, a legal marriage cannot be solemnized.
• Venue arrangements. Securing your venue and any permits, access, or vendor coordination it requires.
• Timely communication. Responding to planning questions and providing ceremony materials in reasonable time before your date.
• Legal capacity. Confirming that you and your partner are legally free and eligible to marry.
• Finishing the course in time. If you are taking the course to meet a deadline — a license appointment, a wedding date — leaving yourself enough time to complete it is up to you.

12. Fees and payment

Ceremony fees, retainers, travel charges, and payment schedules are set out in the quote and service agreement you receive, not on our websites. Any figures shown on the site are illustrative starting points and may change based on date, location, travel, and what your ceremony involves.

Course prices are shown on the course page at the time of purchase, and course payment is due in full at enrollment unless a payment plan is offered and you enroll in it. We may change course pricing, run promotions, or end them at any time; a price change does not affect a purchase you have already completed.

Invoices and payments are handled through our client management, learning platform, and payment providers. Those providers may apply their own processing terms, and card details are handled by them rather than by us. Amounts are stated in U.S. dollars unless we say otherwise, and you are responsible for any taxes that apply.

We may decline or cancel an order, or limit purchases, where an order appears fraudulent, duplicated, or placed for resale. If we do, we will try to reach you at the email or phone number given at the time of the order.

13. Refunds

Ceremonies. Retainers are non-refundable, and rescheduling and cancellation terms are governed by your service agreement, since they depend on the date and arrangements involved.

Courses. Enrolling gives you immediate access to the videos and downloadable materials, so course sales are final and we do not offer refunds. Please read the course description before you buy, and ask us anything you are unsure about — we would rather answer a question first than have you enroll in the wrong thing.

If something has gone wrong on our end, that is different. If you cannot get into the course, you were charged twice, you bought the wrong course, or the material is not what the course page described, contact us and we will make it right.

Nothing in this section limits any refund right you have under applicable law that cannot be waived.

14. Changes, cancellations, and events beyond control

Plans change, and we will work with you when they do. Rescheduling and cancellation terms for ceremonies — including how retainers are treated and any deadlines that apply — are governed by your service agreement.

Neither of us is responsible for failing to perform because of something genuinely outside our control, such as severe weather, natural disaster, hurricane evacuation, serious illness or injury, death in the family, government order, venue closure, or failure of an internet or platform provider. If such an event affects your ceremony, we will make reasonable efforts to reschedule or, where that is not possible, to arrange a suitable substitute officiant. If such an event affects course access, we will make reasonable efforts to restore it or extend your access period accordingly.

15. Third-party features and links

Parts of our sites and services are provided by other companies — the embedded contact form, the chapel booking calendar, the reviews display, the learning platform, the payment processors, and web fonts, among others. Those features are subject to their providers’ own terms and privacy practices, and we do not control how they operate or how long they remain available. We provide access to them as they come, without warranties of our own, and your use of them is at your own discretion.

Links to venues, vendors, county clerk offices, or other outside websites are offered as a convenience. We do not endorse or take responsibility for the content, accuracy, or practices of any site we link to. If you have a complaint about a third party’s product or service, please take it up with them directly.

16. Our content and trademarks

The text, ceremony writing, course materials, photographs, layout, design, logo, and other material on our websites are owned by Officiant Doug, LLC or used with permission, and are protected by copyright and other laws. “Your Story, Beautifully Told™” and “Your Story, Together™” are our marks.

You may view, download, and print pages for your own personal, non-commercial planning use, and use course materials as described in Section 9. Beyond that, please do not copy, reproduce, republish, adapt, or use our content or marks — including using site content, ceremony scripts, or course material to train, generate, or sell competing material — without our written permission.

17. Content you send us

When you send us photographs, vows, readings, stories, reviews, workbook answers, or other material, you keep ownership of it. You confirm that you have the right to share it and that doing so does not infringe anyone else’s rights.

If you give us a review, testimonial, or photograph for publication, you grant us permission to use, display, and reproduce it on our websites and in our marketing, along with your first name or the name you provided, unless you tell us otherwise. That permission can be withdrawn at any time — contact us and the material will be removed promptly.

If you send us suggestions or ideas for improving a course, a ceremony, or the site, we may act on them freely and without owing you anything for doing so. We mention this only so nobody is surprised later.

Personal details shared for the purpose of writing your ceremony, and anything you write in your course workbook, stay private. They are never published without your agreement.

18. Things you agree not to do

Whether you are browsing, inquiring, or enrolled in a course, please do not:

• Use our sites or services for any unlawful purpose, or in a way that violates someone else’s rights.
• Submit false, misleading, or impersonating information through the contact, booking, or enrollment forms.
• Send automated inquiries, bulk messages, advertising, or spam through the forms or by email.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our sites, the course platform, another person’s account, or any connected system, or work around any security or access limits.
• Interfere with the operation, security, or availability of our sites or the course platform, including by scraping, overloading, or flooding them.
• Upload or transmit viruses, worms, or any other code of a destructive nature.
• Copy, republish, resell, or reuse substantial portions of our site content, ceremony writing, or course materials as your own, or reverse engineer any part of what we provide in order to build something similar.
• Use our forms or the course platform to send us sensitive information we did not ask for — such as financial account numbers, government ID numbers, or health records.

If someone breaks these rules, we may suspend or end their access, as described in Section 24.

19. No legal, medical, or counseling advice

We are an officiant and a premarital educator — not a law firm, not a medical practice, and not a licensed therapy or counseling service.

Information on our sites or in our courses about marriage licenses, waiting periods, name changes, statutory requirements, or other legal matters is general and may not reflect current rules in your county or state. It is not legal advice and should not be relied on as such. Please confirm requirements with the issuing clerk’s office, or speak with an attorney about your own situation.

Our premarital course is education, not therapy. It is not a substitute for professional counseling, mental health treatment, or medical care, and it is not designed for situations involving abuse, coercion, or crisis. If a conversation in the course opens up something that needs more than a workbook, please reach out to a licensed professional. If you or someone you love is in danger, contact local emergency services.

20. Accuracy of information

We work to keep our websites and course materials accurate and current, but occasionally something will be out of date, incomplete, or simply wrong — a price, a description, an availability, a statutory detail. Material on our sites is provided for general information and should not be the sole basis for a decision without checking a primary source.

We reserve the right to correct errors, update information, and change or cancel an order where the information it relied on was inaccurate — including after the order was submitted. We do not take on an obligation to update everything on our sites, and a “last updated” date on one page does not mean every page was reviewed that day.

21. Disclaimers

We work to keep our websites and courses available, but they are provided “as is” and “as available.” We do not warrant that they will be uninterrupted or error-free, that every detail is current, that the results you get will meet your expectations, or that embedded third-party features will always function. Pricing, availability, and service details can change without notice.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement with respect to our websites and courses. This section is about the websites and the courses; it does not limit the commitments we make in your signed service agreement.

22. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Officiant Doug, LLC — along with its officers, employees, contractors, and service providers — is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential damages arising from your use of our websites or courses, including lost data, lost opportunities, lost profits, or reliance on information posted here.

Our total liability relating to your use of our websites will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars ($100). Our total liability relating to a course will not exceed the amount you actually paid for that course. Liability connected with a booked ceremony is addressed in your service agreement.

Some states do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you, and nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

23. Indemnification

If someone brings a claim against us because of something you did — breaking these terms, breaking the law, or infringing someone else’s rights — you agree to cover us for it, including reasonable attorneys’ fees. This is standard language, and it is here for the unusual case, not the ordinary one.

24. Suspension and termination

These terms stay in effect while you use our sites or services. You can end them at any time by ceasing to use our sites and, if you have one, closing your course account.

We may suspend or end your access to our sites or a course if you materially breach these terms — for example, by sharing course access, scraping the site, or behaving abusively toward us or others. Where the situation allows, we will tell you first and give you a chance to put it right. If we end your access for a breach, any amounts already due remain payable, and refunds are handled under Section 13.

Anything that by its nature should outlast the end of these terms — ownership, payment obligations already incurred, disclaimers, liability limits, and indemnification — continues to apply.

25. Privacy

How we collect, use, and protect the information you share is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms. Please read it alongside this page. Where our courses are delivered through a third-party platform, that provider’s privacy practices also apply to your account there.

26. Accessibility

Our sites and courses are built with the intention that everyone can use them, and we continue to work on them. If you run into something that is hard to read, navigate, hear, or operate — on the site, in a course, or in the process of planning a ceremony — please tell us. We will help you directly and fix what we can.

27. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute relating to our websites, our courses, or these terms will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Bay County, Florida, and you agree to that venue.

Before anything formal, we would much rather talk. Most concerns are resolved with a phone call, and we ask that you contact us first so we have the chance to make it right.

28. The whole agreement

These terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any policies posted on our sites, make up the entire agreement between us regarding your use of our websites and courses, and replace any earlier understanding on that subject. Your signed service agreement governs your ceremony.

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, that part is limited or removed and the rest remains in effect. Our not enforcing a provision right away does not waive it. Headings are for convenience and do not affect how these terms are read, and any ambiguity will not be read against us simply because we wrote them.

29. Changes to these terms

These terms may be updated as the business or the tools it uses change. The revised version will be posted on this page with a new “last updated” date, and it applies to use of our sites and courses from that point forward. It is worth checking back now and then. Terms already agreed in a signed service agreement, and the refund terms that applied to a course you have already purchased, are not changed by an update here.

30. How to reach us

Questions about these terms, or about anything on our sites, are always welcome.