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 with the wedding planner. But plenty of weddings I've officiated didn't actually have a planner. On the other hand, I've never officiated a...
Category: Ceremony Rituals
3 Reasons to Build your Wedding Ceremony Script in Google Docs
As wedding officiants, we've got a lot of options when it comes to getting our wedding ceremony script down in black and white. Are you still using Microsoft Word? Or Apple Pages? Or a Bic and spiral notepad? I recommend Google Docs. I'm not going to go into all the particular features that make it top-notch. You can explore that here. For today, here are 3 immediate and tangible benefits to why Google Docs is ideal for us wedding officiants specifically. 1. We can build and share the wedding...
3 Lessons I Learned Officiating Weddings Full-Time
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 a full-time professional wedding officiant in my first full year of taking the leap. 1. I learned that telling the couple's story is my unfair advantage Pat Flynn talks about how every...
3 Announcements to Make at the End of the Ceremony
At the end of the ceremony, there are 3 important announcements we want to make to the guests in our closing remarks. If you're also wondering what to say at the beginning, here's what to say and do to start a wedding ceremony. Most of all, we want to keep this part short and sweet. A drawn-out, detail-filled instructional at the end of the ceremony will drain the primed-and-ready-to-party atmosphere out of the room. On the other hand, omitting basic information will lead to unnecessary...
5 Reasons Why I Prefer Kiss-then-Sign Over Sign-then-Kiss
Traditionally, it's called "the pronouncement," and traditionally, it comes after the signing of the registry. Also traditionally, wedding ceremonies didn't include all that much fun. What's "the pronouncement?" Aptly named, the pronouncement is the part of the ceremony when we wedding officiants will say, "I now pronounce you husband and wife!" or "I now pronounce you as married!" It's almost always immediately followed by, "You may kiss your bride!" or "You may share your first married...
The 5 Parts of a Fun and Successful Wedding Rehearsal
Yes, it's possible: a wedding rehearsal can be successful and fun, even! What does a successful rehearsal look like? It means the couple, their parents, their wedding party - everyone knows how to walk and where to stand during the processional and the ceremony on the big day. They feel confident and sure of their unique part and their place in the event. How about fun? Well... practicing a thing can be very unfun, frustrating, and mundane. But at a wedding rehearsal, as long we officiants are...
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