Terrible service and claimed the website owner and officiant has passed away!
After booking and paying communication with Mr Jochen Ziegler was already not great. It took him 3 days and us prodding via Email for him to send the required questionnaire and ask for our documents - we did not book a 24h wedding, but if it were the case I can see how this is even more unacceptable.
We handed in our documents the same day, hoping to get an update a couple days after about confirming our wedding date. The wedding was supposed to be on a Monday. The Friday before our planned date, after us asking him for updates, he claimed he'd hear back about our marriage license before the weekend is over to confirm if it'll work out on Monday - saying they work hard 7 days a week...
Since then, there has been no response to countless emails and WhatsApp messages. The latter have not even been opened or read.
Now there's some good, bad and unfortunate news regarding this:
We never heard back from Jochen since, so we contacted Utah County, we later looked into this and he's a legal officiant for the state of Utah and processes documents through them. - The services he provides, if he does, are legal.
But even the person on the phone has said they often get complaints about him, but anything wedding websites do is entirely out of their control.
Jochen has never filed for our documents after a whole week of waiting and claiming he would hear back from them to update us soon. Nothing he had claimed to have done for us was true. - He took our money and let us wait.
On top of that, the Utah County employee informed me that she heard through another of his unsatisfied clients that he allegedly has passed away this weekend. - At least that's what Jochen's wife told this client. If this is true, this is of course very unfortunate.
For anyone planning to get married remotely, please stay away from wedding websites like these, they often provide terrible service and you can do the same process yourself, legally, through Utah County for less than $200 total.
March 9, 2022
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