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...
by Mark Allan Groleau | Feb 27, 2018 | Officiating Best Practices
It happens all the time to wedding officiants, and it’s the most common and preventable mistake we make. Especially we professional wedding officiants who serve new couples every weekend. It might be a small slip of the tongue or memory, but it can lead to a...
by Mark Allan Groleau | Jan 23, 2018 | Officiating Best Practices, Officiating Business
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...
by Mark Allan Groleau | Jan 18, 2018 | Officiating Best Practices, Officiating Business
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...
by Mark Allan Groleau | Jan 13, 2018 | Officiating Best Practices
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...