Weddingbee Blog

We finally got to meet the deacon who will be presiding over our wedding ceremony this past weekend! I understand this might sound silly to those of you who are getting married at your local church or have a friend helping you out as an officiant, but for us, this was well needed closure to our first “wedding drama” incident last year.

You see, getting married to a Catholic boy when you’re not Catholic isn’t too difficult, but finding a priest who will marry you in your hometown (again, where your family is not Catholic) in an independent chapel is QUITE difficult. In fact, we couldn’t even reserve the date until we could find someone who could commit to helping us over a year in advance. Add to the mess the fact that the diocese was currently in search of a new bishop, which meant that no priests could be certain of their assignments over the next 18 months and no one wanted to commit to anything, and you’ve got quite the religious doozy.

Lead after lead failed us, and all hope of getting married in our chapel was almost gone until I got an email answer from Fr. Roy. He said that he’d love to help us find a “newly minted” deacon for our ceremony, and if for some reason something wacky occurred, he would step in and be our pinch hitter. Wow. Mr. Lemon made a special trip in the fall to visit and chat with him, but I didn’t have the pleasure of meeting him until this past Saturday.

Not only did I get introduced to Fr. Roy, but we also met our deacon! He’s very fun and energetic, a physics teacher (like me… well, except that’s he’s an insanely smart professor), a former Bruin (I mean… how do you get THAT lucky??) and his son attends the school where the ceremony will take place. He also has a divine Spanish accent and laugh! Everyone got along great in our short meeting, and my worries about the ceremony faded away. Now we just have to take care of designing our ceremony, and all will be ready to go! If I had only known a year ago that things would take care of themselves…