A few years back Phlome and Ninsianna asked if I would officiate their wedding. I went online and and got ordained as a minister from the Universal Life Church. Since then I have married a total of 3 more couples: Khuul and his wife, J&H, who I met through Demigoblin, and the most recent one this past weekend. The groom is a close friend of my brothers, who I have known since he was in preschool so I was happy to officiate their wedding. I did explain to them that I was not a real minister and that they would need to provide a ceremony for the wedding. I had performed a ceremony for Phlome and Ninsi, which they had written. The other two weddings were mostly just filling out the paper work.
The couple sent me a ceremony before-hand and it seemed reasonably complete. We filled in some details during rehearsal. There was one small thing though that all of us forgot. In a traditional wedding, after the father presents the bride, the minster tells everyone to take their seats. This was not in the service as written, and having performed all of one wedding previously, I did not think to inform everyone they could be seated. So everyone stood the entire ceremony, which was okay I guess, it was pretty short.
Congratulations to the new bride and Groom!
I've got my 5th wedding coming up this October for Banelord and his fiancee. Who knew becoming an online minster would come to this?
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