How to work with your celebrant to craft your wedding ceremony
The weirdest wedding moment in my 12 year career as a celebrant so far would have been the wedding where I met with the couple getting married a number of times before the wedding, we even did a rehearsal (and I hate rehearsals), so when I arrived 60 minutes before their ceremony and this happened, I was so surprised. The groom hands me a 10 page printout of a wedding ceremony template they had found online. “Last night we started Googling and found this and we’d like you to read it at our wedding ceremony,” he said. Mind blown, for three reasons: there’s almost definitely nothing personal, special, or unique for your wedding on Google. By definition Google is giving you the top 10 web pages in the world, the most average results for “wedding ceremony,” we have literally met and talked at length about how your ceremony would feel, what did they think I was going to read if they didn’t give me a printout. After that experience I vowed to always make sure that my couples felt like they h...