by Mark Allan Groleau | Jun 12, 2023 | General Wedding Ceremony Elements, Officiating Best Practices
Even if you’ve officiated five hundred wedding ceremonies, the very first time a same-sex couple asks you to officiate their wedding ceremony, it can feel like your first time all over again. I hear it from experienced officiants all the time: “What’s different about...
by Mark Allan Groleau | Jun 1, 2023 | General Wedding Ceremony Elements, Officiating Best Practices
The right music is crucial for setting the tone in your wedding ceremony. There are lots of feels in a wedding ceremony, and the right songs complement the emotions of the moment. The wrong songs? Well… the opposite. If you don’t believe me, just go watch those...
by Mark Allan Groleau | Mar 10, 2023 | General Wedding Ceremony Elements, Officiant Speech, Officiating Best Practices, Wedding Ceremony Logistics, Wedding Processional, Wedding Rehearsal
You’ve been asked to officiate a wedding ceremony for the first time. Your first reaction? You feel honoured! Now that you’re sitting down to actually figure it out, it’s overwhelming. Maybe you feel pretty good in front of a crowd. But a wedding?...
by Mark Allan Groleau | Mar 9, 2022 | General Wedding Ceremony Elements, Officiating Best Practices
The very best ending to a wedding ceremony is a grand finale. Everyone is on their feet. The officiant presents the couple. The music starts. The couple head up the aisle to a symphony of overjoyed laughter and raucous cheers from their guests! But that’s not...
by Mark Allan Groleau | Jun 10, 2021 | General Wedding Ceremony Elements, Officiating Best Practices
There are three crucial moments when the wedding officiant needs to step aside in the wedding ceremony. As officiants, we’re literally the centre of attention for almost the entire ceremony. I mean, there’s no need to hog the spotlight the entire time!...
by Mark Allan Groleau | Nov 13, 2019 | General Wedding Ceremony Elements, Wedding Ring Exchange
Just about every contemporary wedding ceremony has a part where the couple exchanges wedding rings. This has been going on literally for ages – the earliest wedding ring exchanges were happening in Egypt over 3000 years ago when couples would exchange rings made...
