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Jeff Pankratz Celebrations, Officiating, & Counseling, 11421 Cable Drive, Osakis, MN (2024)

08/19/2024

It's a 6 wedding weekend y'all!! 😳🙌🥰😎 And that doesn't even include the 4 premarital coaching/counseling sessions, Sat night and Sunday ....I need someone to pray for us! 😅

08/13/2024

Once upon a time there was this lovely couple & .....and then I stepped into their life and well.....let's just say these two sweethearts were very gracious to me and allowed me to journey with them for the year in friendship, premarital coaching, and ultimately to their dream day this last Saturday to become Mr & Mrs Miller 🤍

I truly pray for you guys that all those conversations and date night homework lessons stay close to your heart as you grow and flourish in your intimacy and care for one another....your legacy is going to be AMAZING and I'm here for it! 😎 Love you Allie and Tyler! Remember you can SASCHET me anytime 😉

08/13/2024

What a Saturday with these gems ....thank you Sydney and staff for hosting & families for their wedding 🤍 Allie & Tyler had a great team like and ....and who can forget the one not pictured??!! The amazing 📽️ these people are sooo friendly and very talented! Thank you again Mr & Mrs Miller for connecting us!!!

08/06/2024

Our garden 😍

07/23/2024

So this happened yesterday ....and it's amazing.... This is a sweet couple (Jake and Ellie) I have been giving premarital counseling to for almost a year now, and we have been planning their Sep 21 wedding (less than 2 months away now!) well, last night at the Twins Phillies game, I'm sitting there minding my business and I get a text saying that they are sitting FOUR ROWS...DIRECTLY in front of me!!! 😳😂😍 When you think about the 40k fans in attendance (most of them Philly fans) I'm just blown away at this miracle of sitting so close to my friends!! We enjoyed an inning together before I felt guilty enough to go sit back with my family.... This for sure is a forever memory... So crazy!

07/14/2024

What a fun day with Mr & Mrs Rosenow! 🥰 The storms rolled through our rehearsal but the moms and I agreed that rain wasn't going to touch this wedding ceremony ....the sun popped out and it was so sunny and warm we actually were dripping with sweat! 😂

It was amazing seeing their little one Paisley waddling down the aisle in her baby-walker, and Hunter squatting down lifting her up to give her a big hug from daddy 😭 Alyssa and Hunters families and friends were so kind - got to raise a glass of Tequila with their bride-tribe in the basement bar after signing their marriage certificate. 🥂 I'm grateful for this friendship with the Rosenow fam!

Shout-out to these amazing vendors - , , DJ Adam & Jimmy with

07/13/2024

Love these vendors! Maddy with did an amazing job with the details... Is such a sweet and relational photographer! Even got a chance to raise a glass of tequila with her and the bridal party! 🥂 And Jimmy & Adam DJs are so willing to help with the ceremony making everything perfect. 🙌 A phenomenal team today for Mr. And Mrs. Rosenow! 🥰

07/01/2024

Rachel and Donovans wedding was a beautiful blend of Liberian and Irish culture! 😍 These two and their families were so much fun- I don't think Ive ever danced with the brides mom in the front aisle before 😂 it was awesome! I'm so happy for the Mielkes, and count them as close friends....here's to your journey guys!!! Donovan Mielke Ray Ofsunshine Harris

06/22/2024

Travis & Ashley!!! This year of journeying together has been so special to me. I hereby proudly support this Arizona/Minnesota love connection as long as you never leave MN! 😎 Honestly, Im grateful to our heavenly Father for our friendship, and it was sooo much crazy FUN being your premarital coach and today being your officiant as you became ONE! 🥰 I will always be the biggest psycho fan of Mr and Mrs Latimer 🙌 let's goooooo

Shout out to your amazing vendors and my friends 🤗

06/16/2024

In my 25 yrs of experience coming alongside couples and families, I have NEVER seen the bride AND the groom BOTH serenade each other with their guitars, singing their vows in personal handcrafted songs to one another! 🥰🎶 It was definitely giving Johnny Cash/June Carter vibes.

Kyle & Trista have 6 kids between them, and as they sang to one another, they also read personal vows to each of their kiddos 🥹 let's just say big bro Jeff definitely could not keep it together 😭 this sweet couple began premarital coaching with me about a year ago and today in a small southern MN chapel we saw a MN miracle happen as the kids held hands around their parents and we united them all as ONE.

It was truly a magical day!

For all the second chapter and third chapter weddings out there- new foundations of commitment, dedication, and devotion are possible! This couple and family are living proof. 🤗 I love my job!

Our Papa's deepest blessings to these two and their sweet children

06/16/2024

In my 25 yrs of experience coming alongside couples and families, I have NEVER seen the bride AND the groom BOTH serenade each other with their guitars, singing their vows in personal handcrafted songs to one another! 🥰🎶 It was definitely giving Johnny Cash/June Carter vibes.

Kyle & Trista have 6 kids between them, and as they sang to one another, they also read personal vows to each of their kiddos 🥹 let's just say big bro Jeff definitely could not keep it together 😭 this sweet couple began premarital coaching with me about a year ago and today in a small southern MN chapel we saw a MN miracle happen as the kids held hands around their parents and we united them all as ONE.

It was truly a magical day!

For all the second chapter and third chapter weddings out there- new foundations of commitment, dedication, and devotion are possible! This couple and family are living proof. 🤗 I love my job!

06/09/2024

Cody, Kristie and I met about a year ago and they have faced several opportunities for growth (aka challenges) along the journey of our pre-marital coaching. Today we celebrated each hill they climbed together, each valley they faced together, and every moment in between. I especially loved speaking with the groom's mom before the ceremony started She told me how proud she is of the two of them, for all the choices they are making to sacrificially love one another, hugging me and crying into my arms 😭 moms and dads can't be doing that if they expect me to hold it together for the ceremony 🥹 What a special day to honor their legacy that they now get to live out together with their family! Here's to the Doucettes!

06/09/2024

Cody, Christy and I met about a year ago and they have faced several opportunities for growth (aka challenges) along the journey of our pre-marital coaching. Today we celebrated each hill they climbed together, each valley they faced together, and every moment in between. I especially loved speaking with the groom's mom before the ceremony started She told me how proud she is of the two of them, for all the choices they are making to sacrificially love one another, hugging me and crying into my arms 😭 moms and dads can't be doing that if they expect me to hold it together for the ceremony 🥹 What a special day to honor their legacy that they now get to live out together with their family! Here's to the Doucettes!

06/08/2024

What a beautifully intimate wedding at the cabin yesterday! Neva and Andy & I met about a year ago and quickly learned we share a zany sense of humor and love for life. It was truly nothing short of amazing meeting for our premarital coaching dinners at super fun local restaurants, investing deeply into their marriage foundation, & then the capstone of this lakeside ceremony surrounded by their closest loved ones 🥰 love and peace to my friends Mr & Mrs Annen!

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06/07/2024

My Si guy is E L E V E N!!! 🙌🥰🥳

Let's wish him a happy bday everyone and I'll read the comments to him later tonight 🙌

So proud of my little man for all of his accomplishments, how much he loves his family and friends, and his sense of humor which obviously comes from me 😎

06/01/2024

I met these two amazing souls one year ago over a zoom call and we quickly knew that our friendship was a keeper. 🤗 After a year of long distance Beaverton OR to Alexandria MN zoom calls with some pretty intense premarital coaching, today I was finally able to give my two friends a big ole hug from big bro Jeff, before I help them become one as Mr & Mrs DeKrakers 🥰

maybe the best compliment I ever received was from both of their moms saying how much they have grown during our counseling and have learned to prioritize each other first above all else. coming from the people that love them the most i took this deeply to heart. 😭 Needless to say, there's a few tears shed all around on this happy day. Here's to your adventure, Maggie and Jonathan!!! I'm so thankful for our friendship.

Thank you for serving Jonathan & Maggie's families so well, to these truly great vendors;
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06/01/2024

I met these two amazing souls one year ago over a zoom call and we quickly knew that our friendship was a keeper. 🤗 After a year of long distance Beaverton OR to Alexandria MN zoom calls with some pretty intense premarital coaching, today I was finally able to give my two friends a big ole hug from big bro Jeff, before I help them become one as Mr & Mrs DeKrakers 🥰

maybe the best compliment I ever received was from both of their moms saying how much they have grown during our counseling and have learned to prioritize each other first above all else. coming from the people that love them the most i took this deeply to heart. 😭 Needless to say, there's a few tears shed all around on this happy day. Here's to your adventure, Maggie and Jonathan!!! I'm so thankful for our friendship.

06/01/2024

Friends! This is a really special venue with 500 acres of hunting/fishing grounds....yes thats what i said!....complete indoor and outdoor BRAND NEW facilities for both indoor/outdoor weddings, including several bar spaces and private lounges....AND an included electrical-serviced CAMPGROUND! Their open house is next Sunday June 9! Do yourself a solid and check this place out for sure. Amazing family-centric owners that will care deeply for you is what this place is built on- so good!!

05/31/2024

Friends! This is a really special venue with 500 acres of hunting/fishing grounds....yes thats what i said!....complete indoor and outdoor BRAND NEW facilities for both indoor/outdoor weddings, including several bar spaces and private lounges....AND an included electrical-serviced CAMPGROUND! Their open house is next Sunday June 9! Do yourself a solid and check this place out for sure. Amazing family-centric owners that will care deeply for you is what this place is built on- so good!!

05/25/2024

These amazing people are Jody and Linda Gueningsman, creative pioneers of the lovely Crooked Tree Acres in Parker's Prairie MN! A brand new venue that has both outdoor and indoor ceremony/reception/bar spaces, including camping spaces with electrical hookups! Beautiful lake side views and 500 acres of property with brand new facilities....gorgeous!

https://www.ctaweddings.com/

05/21/2024

These two young lovebirds are so much fun! Thank you Ricky & Riley for the honor of being close friends and also the joy to be your officiant last weekend! Remember you have a friend to reach out to whenever things get a little spicy in life 😂 I got your back 10000% always - here's to your adventure!!! 🥰

05/18/2024

It was such a great day to be with Justin and Lexi as they committed their lives to one another and their families 🥰 over our Zoom calls and ceremony, planning sessions we became quite close, and yesterday just confirmed our friendship and how I'm excited to be with them on their marriage journey as an older brother for support 🤗 these two are so sweet and it was a great day at Gathered Oaks under the canopy of God's creation on their lakeside venue. Can't wait to see how the adventure unfolds for you, Mr. & Mrs. Monse! Justin Monse

04/27/2024

These two are off and running! Chase & Brittany met at the Alexandria Zorbaz restaurant and it was love at first zight. 🥰 Our journey together started last winter going through premarital sessions- Brittany wasn't quite sure how to handle my craziness, and Chase was used to my antics at Aagard where we both work together 😂 between coffee, Chinese food, and lakeside restaurants, we hashed out amazing conversations helping them grow and learn about one another....and uncle Jeff had to throw in some cautionary tales 😎 I'm so proud of them and so happy we can keep celebrating through the years as friends! Enjoy the adventure Mr & Mrs Redmond!

04/27/2024

These two are off and running! Chase & Brittany met at the Alexandria Zorbaz restaurant and it was love at first zight. 🥰 Our journey together started last winter going through premarital sessions- Brittany wasn't quite sure how to handle my craziness, and Chase was used to my antics at where we both work together 😂 between coffee, Chinese food, and lakeside restaurants, we hashed out amazing conversations helping them grow and learn about one another....and uncle Jeff had to throw in some cautionary tales 😎 I'm so proud of them and so happy we can keep celebrating through the years as friends! Enjoy the adventure Mr & Mrs Redmond!

02/26/2024

A friend in our microchurch family, reminded me over coffee today, that we are choosing an alternative way of life, in an increasingly polarized & political world...

Jeremiah 29:5-7

"Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Have wives and have sons and daughters; let your sons have wives, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease. Also seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare."

02/24/2024

February weddings are THE BEST way to get over the winter doldrums! 🤗 So many congrats Jerry & Ashley and to your sweet kiddos as well 🥰 I'll never turn down an invitation to hang out with you guys and you're amazing crew! I am Team Heinz all the way!!