Officiating Business Archives ⋆ Unboring!Wedding https://unboringwedding.com/category/officiating-business/ Wedding Ceremonies That Wow Couples and Thrill Guests! Wed, 28 Feb 2024 12:50:54 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://unboringwedding.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-Star-pink-and-maroon@5x-2-32x32.png Officiating Business Archives ⋆ Unboring!Wedding https://unboringwedding.com/category/officiating-business/ 32 32 191148442 How Many Times the Wedding Officiant Meets with the Couple https://unboringwedding.com/how-many-times-the-wedding-officiant-meets-with-the-couple/ https://unboringwedding.com/how-many-times-the-wedding-officiant-meets-with-the-couple/#respond Thu, 29 Mar 2018 14:00:45 +0000 https://www.howtoofficiateawedding.ca/?p=264 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 input about what they want for their wedding day. Another […]

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]]> https://unboringwedding.com/how-many-times-the-wedding-officiant-meets-with-the-couple/feed/ 0 264 Write Your Own Wedding Officiating Contract and Terms of Service (Today!) https://unboringwedding.com/contract-terms-of-service/ https://unboringwedding.com/contract-terms-of-service/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:16:23 +0000 https://www.howtoofficiateawedding.ca/?p=265 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 putting together the script, the officiant speech, the rehearsal, and all the other […]

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]]> https://unboringwedding.com/contract-terms-of-service/feed/ 3 265 8 Steps to Landing New Wedding Clients in the First Meeting https://unboringwedding.com/8-steps-to-guarantee-a-successful-first-consultation-meeting/ https://unboringwedding.com/8-steps-to-guarantee-a-successful-first-consultation-meeting/#respond Wed, 07 Feb 2018 14:51:58 +0000 https://www.howtoofficiateawedding.ca/?p=224 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 run these first meetings with couples once or twice […]

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]]> https://unboringwedding.com/8-steps-to-guarantee-a-successful-first-consultation-meeting/feed/ 0 224 5 Tips for Working Well with the Wedding Photographer (Part 2) https://unboringwedding.com/5-tips-for-working-well-with-the-wedding-photographer-part-2/ https://unboringwedding.com/5-tips-for-working-well-with-the-wedding-photographer-part-2/#respond Tue, 23 Jan 2018 21:13:03 +0000 https://www.howtoofficiateawedding.ca/?p=215 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 of Ceremony. (You can jump back to Part 1 here.) But […]

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]]> https://unboringwedding.com/5-tips-for-working-well-with-the-wedding-photographer-part-2/feed/ 0 215 5 Tips for Working Well with the Wedding Photographer (Part 1) https://unboringwedding.com/5-tips-for-working-well-with-the-wedding-photographer-part-1/ https://unboringwedding.com/5-tips-for-working-well-with-the-wedding-photographer-part-1/#respond Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:54:04 +0000 https://www.howtoofficiateawedding.ca/?p=208 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 be working with a wedding photographer. In another post, I sketched out 4 tips for working well […]

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]]> https://unboringwedding.com/5-tips-for-working-well-with-the-wedding-photographer-part-1/feed/ 0 208 3 Lessons I Learned Officiating Weddings Full-Time https://unboringwedding.com/3-things-i-learned-officiating-weddings-in-2017/ https://unboringwedding.com/3-things-i-learned-officiating-weddings-in-2017/#comments Fri, 05 Jan 2018 18:30:48 +0000 https://www.howtoofficiateawedding.ca/?p=203 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 I’m all about. Here are three lessons I learned as […]

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]]> https://unboringwedding.com/3-things-i-learned-officiating-weddings-in-2017/feed/ 6 203 4 Tips for Working Well with the Wedding Planner https://unboringwedding.com/4-tips-for-working-well-with-the-wedding-planner/ https://unboringwedding.com/4-tips-for-working-well-with-the-wedding-planner/#comments Tue, 28 Nov 2017 03:44:18 +0000 https://www.howtoofficiateawedding.ca/?p=187 As a wedding officiant, I consider it a godsend when my couple has hired a wedding planner as well. Professional wedding planners are logistical ninjas and know how to run a tight ship. That’s good news for us officiants! I’ve officiated many a wedding where there’s no planner. That means it falls to me to […]

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]]> https://unboringwedding.com/4-tips-for-working-well-with-the-wedding-planner/feed/ 2 187 How to Become a Professional Officiant for Weddings: 8 Steps to Start Your New Career https://unboringwedding.com/how-to-become-an-officiant-for-weddings/ https://unboringwedding.com/how-to-become-an-officiant-for-weddings/#comments Sun, 12 Nov 2017 21:45:34 +0000 https://www.howtoofficiateawedding.ca/?p=182 This 8-step comprehensive guide is how to become a full-time professional wedding officiant, and it’s for anyone who wants to pursue this rewarding and exciting career. In less than 12 months, I followed these steps and went from unemployed to a solo $50,000-a-year wedding officiating business. Here is how I became a professional officiant for […]

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