So you’re officiating a wedding and you’re feeling a little lost? Well, we’ve got you. At Offbeat Wed, not only do we have a massive archive of wedding ceremony scripts for folks who are officiating a friend’s wedding, but we also have tons of advice about how to officiate a wedding. And today we’re coming at you with questions you can ask your friends getting married to help you gather the stories and details to help you write your wedding officiant script.
If you’re trying to write your wedding officiant script for a friend’s wedding, you’ll need the help of the couple. Share these questions with them, and you’ll have a great head start on the information you need for officiating a wedding, and have SO much great material to work with when it comes to writing your officiant script. Copy and paste these into an email for your couple, and watch the stories roll in!
Wedding ceremony detail questions to ask the couple
Story questions to ask the couple to help you write your wedding officiant script
Answer the ones that are natural, or have a good story. Ignore the ones that don’t trigger anything right away. Silly is good, it breaks the ice! Mushy is good too, for the tears and the cool photos.
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For many of us who are tapped to officiate a wedding for a couple of dear friends, it is our first experience designing a ritual, not to mention one so important. We take to the trusty Internet for answers, but find little. We can’t look to previous generations for wisdom, as most of them were either married by a religious figure by choice or obliged by their parents. To help fill in the gap, here are a few of the practices I’ve picked up along the way or created whole cloth.
This is basically the best post ever written about how to build a wedding ceremony from the ground up.
While there’s a bit of ritual theory, but mostly it’s expert advice about how to structure your wedding ceremony from start to finish, complete with a sample outline.
So you’ve been asked to officiate a friend’s wedding. Congratulations! Even if you’re someone used to exciting things happening all over the universe, someone like, say, Darth Vader — that’s still pretty excited! That said, unless you’ve done this before, you’re probably a little overwhelmed… never fear! We’ve got step by step advice for how to officiate a friend’s wedding — complete with links to TONS of wedding ceremony scripts.
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