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 do everything from arranging chairs to corralling the wedding party at the back. Simply, wedding planners are officiants' best friends on the wedding day. That said, I've had a few...
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Giving Away the Bride + The Alternatives
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 a plan for what happens when she gets there. If it's not carefully planned and rehearsed, it can get real awkward. Back in the day, this was a no-brainer. The person accompanying the bride would almost always...
How to Become a Professional Officiant for Weddings: 8 Steps to Start Your New Career
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 weddings - by following these 8 steps that changed my life. 1. Get legal; Get Your Marriage Officiant License Okay, what a bummer of a way to start off,...
The 5 Last Things to Check Before Starting the Wedding Ceremony
As the wedding officiant, you need to check five last details before you walk down the aisle and kick off the ceremony. The moment you walk out and take the front, the train has left the station. The horse has left the barn. The ball is in play. In a nutshell, there's just no going back. Now, there will always be things we can't foresee and control, but there are some things we can. And sure, there are lots of details to take care of when you arrive at the ceremony venue. But in the two...
Wedding Vows: What to Say
Trust me, I know; the last thing this ever-lovin' world needs is another page on the Internet of sample wedding vows. Wedding Vow Samples Number About 1.5 Million Hits On the Internet But that's also precisely why I'm giving you another page on the Internet full of sample wedding vows. When you Google "sample wedding vows," you're gonna get 1,530,000 websites of varying quality filled with wedding vows. And you'll ask yourself, "Do these work? Are they good? Do they sound weird? Will my couple...
Wedding Vows: The 3 Ways to Say Them
When I sit down with my couple to plan our ceremony and it gets to the part where we brainstorm their wedding vows, the first thing I ask them is, "How do you want to say your vows?" They almost always look at me a bit perplexed, so I have to immediately continue: "There are three ways you can say your vows." (The two things to consider when it comes to wedding vows: what to say, and how to say them. For more on what to say, check out my companion post about vows right here: Wedding Vows: What...
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