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...
by Mark Allan Groleau | Jan 10, 2019 | General Wedding Ceremony Elements
You’re a wedding officiant or a couple looking for sample readings for your upcoming wedding ceremony. And you just want this part to be easy. In fact, I’m surprised you haven’t just scrolled right down to look for sample readings already! (Spoiler...
by Mark Allan Groleau | Mar 6, 2018 | General Wedding Ceremony Elements, Officiating Best Practices
As iPads and Surface Pros become more common, it’s a question that’s more pervasive among wedding officiants: “Should I keep reading the ceremony out of a binder in the wedding, or should I get with the times and use a tablet?” I’ve tried...
