by Mark Allan Groleau | Nov 26, 2020 | Ceremony Kickoff, Officiating Best Practices
You take your place at the front, turn to face the wedding guests, and… they’re all wearing masks. They’re spaced 6 feet apart. The room is half empty. You can’t make out any smiles. You can’t pick up on the excitement in the room. The...
by Mark Allan Groleau | Apr 20, 2018 | Ceremony Kickoff, Wedding Processional
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...
by Mark Allan Groleau | Apr 11, 2018 | Ceremony Kickoff
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...
by Mark Allan Groleau | Oct 16, 2017 | Ceremony Kickoff
Let’s say you’re officiating a wedding. You make the last check of the five details, walk to the front of the room, turn, see 100+ people looking back at you, and take a breath to start the wedding ceremony. Here’s where the Choose Your Own Adventure...
