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 | 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 | May 2, 2018 | Wedding Processional
Weddings are a family event, and that means our wedding couple will often ask some little ones to walk as ring bearers and flower girls in the wedding processional. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve covered how the officiant comes in and how 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 | Nov 21, 2017 | Wedding Processional
Whether it’s giving away the bride or one of the other two options, we need an arrival plan. If we’re officiating a wedding with a bride, there’s likely going to be a point in the ceremony where she gets to the front, and on the arm of someone...