Dr. Doug Burford, DMin, LPC Relationship Counselor

to perform our wedding ceremony. Since our home church is in Dallas and we were getting married in Kansas City, we started searching for a good match and knew we had found one when we found Doug! From my first email with Doug he was kind, genuine, and sincere. We discussed what was important to be included in our wedding ceremony and he took detailed notes and have us recommendation and tips as well. Our ceremony truly had Christ at the center of it and Doug was extremely well spoken and relatable. I had numerous people tell me after the wedding that the ceremony was absolutely beautiful. I cannot imagine anyone else performing our wedding ceremony and we will be forever grateful for you joining us together in front of Christ and all our loved ones! Thank you from the bottom of our heart!

bout you both as people and as a couple. His professionalism during the pre-marriage counseling sessions, the rehearsal, and ceremony was amazing and something that you do not see in many officiants these days. My wife and I met with 3 officiants before meeting Dr. Burford and after leaving all 3 of them we looked at each other and wondered if that was as good as it gets because all of them either judged us based on religion or gave us very blunt terms of what they do and do not do (One even told us he didn't do rehearsals because "the officiant doesn't need to be there"). Eventually, and Luckily, we ended up finding Dr. Burford and we will forever be grateful that we did. Michael & Kayla B.

, available to answer any questions, worked with our schedule and explained things thoroughly. We had to bring our son with us and he was very friendly with him as well and gave him items to color with. We did not have any relationship problems prior to the counseling, but I still feel like it helped strengthen our relationship even more than it was already. At the rehearsal, he showed up early and was extremely helpful in explaining what would happen, what he would say, and let us go through the rehearsal until we were comfortable with it. At the wedding he was also very professional and kind. The wedding ceremony was absolutely beautiful and it was a beautiful service as well. I would highly recommend him to anyone!

houghtful and reassuring words put us at ease. Our wedding day was what I had hoped for, the ceremony was personal and meaningful. We highly recommend Doug to perform your wedding ceremony.

asy to relate to him. He will give wise and experienced counsel and his personal life lives up to his own counsel. Doug is a person of the highest integrity and strong character. We think you will be satisfied if you choose Doug.

rganized and professional, he was friendly, well-spoken and an overall great person to work with. Doug also provided our per-marital counseling which I would HIGHLY recommend to anyone before getting married. He brought up really great points and how to deal with them in marriage and how to make your marriage last forever. He worked with our schedules extremely well in order to make sessions work for both of us. Doug is an overall great pastor and his values and beliefs are definitely aligned with mine and my family's. I would recommend him to anyone and would be very happy to work with him again. Thank you again for everything, Doug!

our future. We didn’t want to write our own vows, instead opting for the “I do” questions. He pointed out an important distinction for us. “I do” is in the moment whereas, “I will” is a forever statement. After his point, my then fiancé (now husband of 9 years) and I really thought about his words and decided we agreed – “I will” means today, tomorrow, when I’m sick, when you leave the cap off the toothpaste, when I’m tired, when we fight – I will is forever. We wouldn’t have thought about that and to this day, we still remind each other that “I will”. We have Dr. Burford to thank for that. We also wanted to deviate a little from the “traditional” service and add music where there traditionally wasn’t, scripture where there traditionally wasn’t and prayers were there traditionally wasn’t. He was so gracious about the changes we wanted to make, recognizing their importance to us and never second guessing us. He saw that we had a vision (and a reason) and helped us to incorporate these items so the ceremony flowed seamlessly. Perhaps the best part of having him perform our service though was the part that we really had no influence on – the sermon. He talked about the difference between a wedding and a marriage. He also reminded us (and all our guests) that a marriage is never 50/50. Each person is responsible for giving 100%. If you give 100% then you can make up for your partner having an “off” day. There are going to be times when life is hard and if each of you does your best to give 100% then you have the best chance to survive those difficult times. Guests of our wedding commented after the fact what a great sermon he gave and to a few of our guests, that 100% message rang truer than anyone could have known. Again, 9 years and 2 kids later, it’s a message that my husband and I remind each other of from time to time. Anyone planning a wedding knows there are things that are going to go wrong. Choosing Dr. Burford to perform your ceremony will NEVER be something you look back on as “wrong”. He was great and we are lucky for his words in our special moment.

nd patience for the wedding party. His wisdom in premarital counseling was invaluable. My husband and I are forever indebted to Pastor Doug and would highly recommend him!