It's common for us wedding officiants to feel a lot of pressure about that first consultation meeting with a prospective client. What do I say? How do I structure the conversation? Is there a best way to do this? As a full-time professional wedding officiant, I run these first meetings with couples once or twice a week on average. I've honed my method over years, and I feel like I've hit on a routine that works. Now, I call this first meeting our "chemistry check." It's more... human (or...
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5 Seating Options for the Signing of the Registry
In many wedding ceremonies, there's an element called the Signing of the Registry. This is when the couple sign their marriage license with two witnesses and the officiant. When I started out, my first questions about wedding ceremonies in general were, "Who sits during the Signing of the Registry? And when?" Does everyone sit down? Only one half of the couple? What about the witnesses? In what order do they sign? As it turns out, there are a few ways to do it. Here are 5 options I recommend...
5 Tips for Working Well with the Wedding Photographer (Part 2)
In the last post, we discussed the two things we need to go over in our pre-ceremony conversation with the wedding photographer. 1. Discuss requests and expectations with the wedding photographer ahead of time. 2. Give the wedding photographer a rundown of our Order of Ceremony. (You can jump back to Part 1 here.) But we're not just all-talk, no-action, are we? No. Here are three more things we can actually do to work at our absolute best with the wedding photographer and make sure our...
5 Tips for Working Well with the Wedding Photographer (Part 1)
It takes a small army of wedding planners, coordinators, caterers, florists, and designers to pull off most weddings these days. As wedding officiants, will we always be working with planners or designers at every wedding? Probably not. But we'll almost always be working with a wedding photographer. In another post, I sketched out 4 tips for working well with the wedding planner. But plenty of weddings I've officiated didn't actually have a planner. On the other hand, I've never officiated a...
3 Reasons to Build your Wedding Ceremony Script in Google Docs
As wedding officiants, we've got a lot of options when it comes to getting our wedding ceremony script down in black and white. Are you still using Microsoft Word? Or Apple Pages? Or a Bic and spiral notepad? I recommend Google Docs. I'm not going to go into all the particular features that make it top-notch. You can explore that here. For today, here are 3 immediate and tangible benefits to why Google Docs is ideal for us wedding officiants specifically. 1. We can build and share the wedding...
3 Lessons I Learned Officiating Weddings Full-Time
In 2017, I launched my own wedding officiating company Unboring!Wedding. For the first time in my life, I was officiating weddings almost every weekend for months at a time. This was no side-hustle. This was it. I learned a lot about weddings, couples, and what I'm all about. Here are three lessons I learned as a full-time professional wedding officiant in my first full year of taking the leap. 1. I learned that telling the couple's story is my unfair advantage Pat Flynn talks about how every...
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