Wedding Blog

When we began planning the wedding, I was positive that we would hire an officiant, simply because it was one less thing we would have to worry about for the wedding. But a 16 month engagement gave us LOTS of time to change our mind. When I began searching for officiants, I began to worry about having a perfect stranger presiding over such an intimate…

My wedding officiant/pastor has never officiated a wedding before.

Yup, it’s true! And I couldn’t be more thrilled.

Originally, Mr. Eggplant and I asked the lead pastor at our church to officiate our wedding. He was already scheduled for another wedding on the same day as our nuptials, and coincidentally, in the same city also. The plan was to start our ceremony in the late afternoon…

Last night’s premarital counseling session with the pastor did not go well. In fact, it went very, very badly. It’s probably a big no-no to dislike a man of god, but I do. He’s sexist. He’s not objective and quite frankly, I don’t think he likes me!

A little back story for you–I’ve been going to the same church since we moved to Seattle, the same…

I don’t know if all of you caught this story a few weeks ago, but I thought it was notable. In South Korea, a couple will be getting married by…a robot (that the groom designed). The value of Robo-Priest (okay, his name is really Tiro) comes to $257,800.

To read the full article, click here.

I’m super excited to announce that we found our officiant! It’s such a relief to find someone who we both feel comfortable with enough to marry us. I can’t tell you how much I was fretting this task. With everything else I’ve had to do - finding a venue, getting a dress, DJ, photographer etc., I did fairly quickly, but I really dreaded looking for…

Hey Everyone. As you saw from my post yesterday about possibly marrying in the church, I have a meeting today with the Father. I’m very bad about meetings, I get flustered and tend to shut in on myself. So, I’m going to go with a prepared list of things the comments already made me think about, like these:

What is the dress code for the ceremony?…

As I mentioned before, we were hoping to have my aunt officiate our wedding, but it was taking a while for me to get my nerve up just in case she didn’t want to do it for some reason. I finally talked to her last night, and she was thrilled!!! I’m so excited that we finally have someone to officiate since, when it all comes…

For our wedding, we wanted a non-denominational civil ceremony perhaps with some semi-religious readings to incorporate our different beliefs. Finding such a person was a rather difficult task.

At first, we were going to ask one of FI’s friends to do it, since he is ordained and it would be more meaningful because we knew him. However, to make a long story short, FI ended up…

It’s official–we have our officiant! Yesterday Mr. Blueberry mailed off the deposit check to a *very* nice pastor who we met with back in November. He’s just what we were looking for–someone who is respectful and traditional, but accommodating of our myriad of requests.

Now we really can get married.

Also, we’re paying the extra money to have him coordinate the rehearsal. It’s $150 more, which…

On Saturday we drove all the way down to Lee’s Summit to meet with a potential officiant I had discovered online while searching for “secular wedding.”

Missouri is tricky because judges/JOP’s can’t leave their chambers to perform weddings. So unless we wanted to go to the courthouse, we’d have to find an ordained minister who would be willing to perform a secular ceremony (which is understandably…

No, I’m not proposing to the internet at large. But I am *desperately* seeking someone to perform our wedding ceremony. So far we have met with officiants near and far. It feels like we’ve considered pretty much everyone short of Father Guido Sarducci:

And still, no officiant.

This all stems from the lack of formal religion in my life. Though I was born and raised Jewish, as…

Last night Mr. Spider and I met with our officiant, Pastor April Gismondi. I am Buddhist but Mr. Spider and his family are not religious, so we were looking for a flexible officiant willing and able to incorporate some Buddhist philosophies. I found Pastor April on the Long Island Weddings forum among raves about her personalized and natural style and her ability to make couples…

Is it required to invite the minister to the rehearsal dinner and/or reception dinner? Since I’m having a destination wedding in Hawaii, I probably won’t meet him until the day of my wedding.

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