In my wedding ceremony planning session with the wedding couple, I always ask, "Which parents will be attending the wedding?" (This is how I phrase it to allow for disinvited, estranged, or deceased parents to be omitted without too much discomfort for the couple.) Almost always, there will be at least one parent at the wedding. What do we do with the wedding couple's parent or parents? In a traditional wedding ceremony, it used to be a no-brainer: Dad walked daughter down the aisle. And even...
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5 (But Really Just 4) Ways for the Wedding Officiant to Take the Front
Every wedding ceremony has one thing in common: the wedding officiant has to get to the front somehow. When we officiants conduct our wedding ceremony planning session with our couple, we want to succinctly lay out the options for them: "Here's a few ways we can kick this thing off." To do that, we've gotta be well-versed in those options ourselves. Now, the number of ways to get to the front of a room is limited only by our imagination - and maybe your imagination is way more animated than...
How to Add a Quaich to Your Wedding Ceremony
Confession: I'd never heard of a quaich before until I had a couple with Scottish roots ask me if we could add it to their wedding ceremony. "Uh, yeah! Of course... sure we can do that! ...What is it? And how do you spell that...?" Are you wondering how to add a quaich to the wedding ceremony for your couple? Technically, a quaich (pronounced "quake", but with more saliva) is a style of cup or bowl that traditionally originates in Scotland. So really, we would properly call this a quaich...
How Many Times the Wedding Officiant Meets with the Couple
We wedding officiants are going to meet several times with our couples in person. This is not a remote transaction, after all. We're looking to strike a balance between advising the wedding couple from our experience and expertise and giving them as much say and input about what they want for their wedding day. Another balance we're looking for is that sweet spot between meeting too many times and not meeting enough. How do we strike this balance? How many times do we need to meet with them? A...
Write Your Own Wedding Officiating Contract and Terms of Service (Today!)
One of the most daunting tasks to starting up our own officiating practice is putting together a Contract and Terms of Service. After all, we wedding officiants have enough to worry about - we're doing the actual wedding ceremony work stuff! We're putting together the script, the officiant speech, the rehearsal, and all the other elements of a wedding ceremony. So maybe we let the contract part slide. It's not that big a deal, right? What could go wrong? It's time to change that today. Over...
How to Officiate a Wedding with (or without) a Microphone
As wedding officiants, we have so many ceremony details to prepare and fuss over: the script, the rehearsal, the processional, our outfit, our speech, the license.... And a lot of the time, we can totally forget about this one major item until the moment we arrive at the wedding venue: the microphone. And chances are, our wedding couple hasn't thought about it either. That's our job. This is where we wedding officiants can come in at the top of our game. Let's not leave the mics as an...
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