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How To Officiate a Wedding Ceremony For the First Time

Mark Allan Groleau — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 15:59:51 +0000

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? It’s all too much. I got you. There are a lot […]

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5 Details to Consider for Ring Bearers and Flower Girls in the Processional

Mark Allan Groleau — Tue, 15 May 2018 20:09:20 +0000

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 comes. (For that other half of the conversation – my post on all […]

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Ring Bearers and Flower Girls: When They Walk in the Processional

Mark Allan Groleau — Wed, 02 May 2018 14:08:32 +0000

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 couple’s parents come in. It’s time to talk about the children. […]

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Seat the Parents: 4 Options for How and When They Enter in a Wedding Ceremony

Mark Allan Groleau — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:11:47 +0000

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 couple.) Almost always, there will be at least one parent at the […]

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Giving Away the Bride + The Alternatives

Mark Allan Groleau — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:41:36 +0000

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 accompanying her. She’s arrived, and we need […]

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