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Despite my nervousness at meeting with vendors, I was totally cool about meeting with our pastor. He’s very nice, laid back, and non-judgmental, and on top of that we had already had a similar meeting when we were preparing for our daughter’s baptism.

Speaking of Cherry Bomb, we made a huge mistake by bringing her to the meeting with us.

Seriously bad idea. We spent most of the meeting trying to discuss our relationship and what we want out of the ceremony and expect out of our marriage. Cherry Bomb spent most of the meeting taking things out of the garbage and throwing things on the ground while running around and climbing on everything in sight. It was a pretty exhausting meeting. Our pastor was really nice about it, though, and he gave us some information and told us to figure out what we want to do so we could discuss it further at the next meeting (that we vowed to get a babysitter for!).

Tiny terror!

One of the big decisions we had to make was whether or not to include the Catholic church in our ceremony. This was more of Mr. Cannon’s decision since he’s the Catholic one. Our pastor had performed mixed Methodist/Catholic ceremonies before. He said that usually a Catholic deacon is brought in to participate in the ceremony and some Catholic elements are added to the service. I think we would need to go through with all the usual Catholic preparations for the wedding in order to get the Catholic church involved. (Pre-Cana? Is that right, Catholics?)

After our meeting, Mr. Cannon talked to his mom (a Catholic church secretary) about what he would need to do to get the Catholic church to recognize the wedding, and based on that conversation he ultimately decided not to include the Catholic elements. He would need to register in a Catholic church in order to get them involved, and he felt that would be disingenuous since he does not intend to go to another church. He wants to continue to go to church with Cherry Bomb and me as a family. Mr. Cannon seems satisfied with his decision, and as long as he’s happy, I’m happy. He doesn’t feel that it compromises his religious beliefs at all, and he feels God will still be observing our wedding even without the Catholic elements.

With that decision out of the way, we had to pick what Biblical readings and songs we wanted for the next meeting. How did you plan your ceremony?

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