by Mark Allan Groleau | May 30, 2018 | Officiating Best Practices
I got my first-ever negative review this week. I’m at my Macbook writing a wedding love story, when “bing!” – in comes an email from Wedding Wire saying I’ve received a review from “Spencer.” Right away, I’m a bit...
by Mark Allan Groleau | May 15, 2018 | Officiating Best Practices, Wedding Processional
When we’re talking about ring bearers and flowers girls coming down the aisle, the “when-do-they-enter” question is only half the conversation. We also need to consider how the kids are going to feel and how they might respond when their big moment...
by Mark Allan Groleau | Mar 29, 2018 | Officiating Best Practices, Officiating Business
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...
by Mark Allan Groleau | Mar 22, 2018 | Officiating Best Practices, Officiating Business
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...
by Mark Allan Groleau | Mar 14, 2018 | Officiating Best Practices, Wedding Ceremony Logistics
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...
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...
