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 | Feb 7, 2018 | Officiating Business
It’s common for us wedding officiants to feel a lot of pressure about that first consultation meeting with a prospective client. What do I say? How do I structure the conversation? Is there a best way to do this? As a full-time professional wedding officiant, I...
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 5, 2018 | General Wedding Ceremony Elements, Officiating Business
In 2017, I launched my own wedding officiating company Unboring!Wedding. For the first time in my life, I was officiating weddings almost every weekend for months at a time. This was no side-hustle. This was it. I learned a lot about weddings, couples, and what...
