{"id":36,"date":"2015-03-02T21:38:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T21:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.WellSayIDo.com\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2015-04-01T13:23:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T20:23:38","slug":"about-rich-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/?page_id=36","title":{"rendered":"About Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rich Cowley, a Man of Many Talents.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I didn’t start out as a wedding minister, but I’m sure glad I became one!<\/p>\n

When I moved to Southern California from the Philadelphia area in the early 1990s, it was as a professional magician. (I came out West mainly so I could join the world-famous Magic Castle<\/a>, an exclusive magician’s club in Hollywood.)<\/p>\n

Years ago, some friends asked me to perform their wedding, so\u00a0I got myself ordained and performed their ceremony. Once my friends walked back up the aisle, I thought my days as a minister were over…<\/p>\n

Little did I know the path ahead!\u00a0 My friends’ wedding planner liked me so much, she booked me for many weddings over the next few years…<\/p>\n

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Rich marries Kim and Bruce together, on national TV!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of those weddings was for a reality show on TV; once I got that national exposure, I became a “hot ticket”, performing weddings all over Southern California!<\/p>\n

What do magic and weddings have in common? Both need a strong personal connection<\/em>.\u00a0\u2014 When my wife and I got married years ago in Las Vegas, our ceremony felt very, well, Vegas-y and impersonal.\u00a0I\u00a0never want my couples to experience that!<\/p>\n

So, instead of using the same old script for\u00a0everyone (and a boilerplate wedding ceremony which doesn’t quite fit anyone<\/em>),\u00a0I much prefer working with each couple individually, hand-crafting a ceremony that reflects you two perfectly.<\/p>\n

Because of that extra care and attention, my weddings are never “cookie-cutter”, and are always unforgettable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t start out as a wedding minister, but I’m sure glad I became one! When I moved to Southern California from the Philadelphia area in the early 1990s, it was as a professional magician. (I came out West mainly so I could join the world-famous Magic Castle, an exclusive magician’s club in Hollywood.) Years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-36","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}