New Home Office

I am happy to say my permanent address is located at my favorite wedding venue. Serenely located at The Secret Garden in a beautiful private garden. This site accommodates small elopements of just two as an alternative to a courthouse marriage ceremony and up to 30 guests for the intimate sized weddings with friends and family. The photo package offered there is unbeatable in price and quality.

Florida Courthouse locations

Although you need a Florida marriage license to get married in Florida it could not be easier. Unlike some states where you have to get the license in the county that you want to marry in, you can get the license in any of the 67 counties in Florida and have the ceremony performed in any other Florida county. The license is good for 60 days and if neither the bride or groom are Florida residents you can get married the same day otherwise there is a 3 day wait period. There are some exceptions to this rule so feel free to contact any of the courthouse locations at this link to answer any other questions.

Some people ask can I get the license by mail and the answer is YES but there are certain details that must be met.

We look forward to seeing you soon.Florida courthouse locations

Affordable Orlando garden wedding

Affordable Orlando garden wedding

Having an affordable Orlando garden wedding is so easy and stress-free when planning one of the Marry Me Now elopement packages at The Secret Garden.

This past year has flown by and we sure have had a lot of people coming from the UK and all around the United States. I would like to thank and congratulate all of the couples that have given me the honor or performing their ceremonies. It has also allowed me to make so many new friends worldwide that I otherwise would most likely never have met in my lifetime. This garden wedding venue has surely been a blessing to me and my wife and we are happy to offer such a great deal on an elopement wedding. The photos are exclusively by Abba Photography. Enjoy the smiles!

Affordable Orlando garden wedding
Cheryl Lee and Grant

Shannon and Dave
Shannon and Dave

Todd and Sandra
Todd and Sandra

Orlando Florida wedding minister
Rich and Maria

Orlando Florida wedding minister
Jessica and Steven

Orlando Florida wedding minister
Julius and Zahara

Orlando Florida wedding minister
Jeremy and Tara

Orlando Florida wedding minister
Jo and Mike

Orlando Florida wedding minister
Patrick and Jackie

Orlando Florida wedding minister
Ron and Robyn

Orlando Florida wedding minister
Jared and Denisse

Orlando Florida wedding minister
Gary and Helen

Orlando Florida wedding minister
Daniel and Ebony

Orlando Florida wedding minister
Lance and Sabrina

Orlando Florida wedding minister
Tracy and Charlie

Orlando Florida wedding minister
Lois and Clarence

Recent Rave Review

Recent Rave Review

Here is a recent rave review.

Gary was very professional, helpful, and a wonderful person. He was a great help and was very flexible to our schedule. When me and my now wife booked with Gary, he was very helpful with all of our questions and concerns. Originally we were only gonna do the ceremony, but once we arrived to Gary’s and walked into the back yard and seen how magnificent/beautiful/ breath taking it was, we then decided at the very last minute, while standing there right before Gary proceeded to marry us, and change our minds with no time to spare, to have Marty(please forgive me if i spelled her name wrong) take the photos for us. After seeing the setup they had with all the props and how beautiful it was, i wouldn’t of wanted my wedding photos anywhere else but there. We were so satisfied, that we are trying to plan another trip to Florida, to maybe do our vowel renewals on our 1year anniversary. I myself am a very very picky person, but i would recommend anybody and i mean anybody to use them for weddings and photos and anything else that might be needed for that special day. They both will always have a spot in mine and my wifes heart that we will never forget how special they made our special day. They are very amazing people. On a scale of 1-5, i would give them a 10, they are very above and beyond all expectations we could of ever imagined.

Justin: 12/31/2013

 

Thank you very much for the review and kind words.

Gary and Marti

Award Winning Photographer

Orlando, Florida wedding

We are happy to inform you based upon the comments that Abba Photography is the house photographer here at The Secret Garden and you can see lots of sample images from a lot of locations around Central Florida at this link. http://abbaphotography.com/?page_id=187

Featured on this site are the photographic skills of Marti Davids of Abba Photography and you can see her complete portfolio at http://abbaphotography.com/?page_id=187.

Gaylord Palms wedding with Jill and Darin

Gaylord Palms wedding

I would like to thank Jill and Darin for choosing me to be a part of their special day for their wedding held at the Gaylord Palms and for their warm comments read below. Congratulations to you both.

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Rev. Gary,
We just want to thank you for the wonderful ceromony.  You did a tremendous job.  It was just amazing that you were able to incorporate our personalities so well with just the short amount of time that we had with you.  We both honestly think that you did just as well, if not better, than if we had our minister here perform our ceromony.  Again thank you so much for making our day so very special.
Thanks,
Jill and Darin