FI is familiar with our pastor. His best friend is married to the pastor's daughter. They are both good friends of both of us. Before I met FI, the pastor of the church had gone out with the young adult group a few times after church when they would go out to restaurants. So FI is somewhat familiar with him. We started back in the fall to schedule premarital counseling with him. At first there was the complication of him leading a large trip to Israel, so we tried to wait. Then the holidays hit and things got busy again. So we waited agian. Then in January we finally got his daughter to get in touch with him and schedule our first meeting with him. It went great, an hour before Saturday night service. He asked us to do a personality profile online so he could have those results for the next session. His secretary emailed it to us the next day, we both took it that day and emailed our results. We were told we'd schedule soon. So we waited.
...and waited.
...and waited.
I emailed the secretary then in early March with my schedule for the next 3 weeks and FI's regular schedule since he's a teacher. We waited some more. The email was not achknowledged. So I gave my weekly schedule to his daughter. And we waited.
AND WAITED! We talked to the pastor after church. And waited. Three weeks ago the pastor came into our weekly Bible study on campus and talked to us afterwards about meeting and said he'd have his secretary call the next day. We waited. A week later I called and the secretary told us she had just talked to him and that he should be calling that day or the next. WE STILL WAITED!
Finally I got so over it and frustrated I asked FI to take care of it. He talked to the pastor's daughter, apparently SHE was having trouble getting in touch with her own father. Late yesterday afternoon I called and left a message with the secretary saying how frustrated I was and how we had called and emailed numerous times with no reply and we'd been trying for MONTHS to schedule something, how our wedding was just over a month away and not only did we still have counseling but we always have ceremony specific questions to go over and we can't organize programs or readers or ANYTHING without talking to him and I said I need to hear back as SOON as possible.
...got a call at 9am this morning. We are meeting with the pastor next Wednesday at 5:30. That was all the phone call consisted of...no apology for taking so long, no acknowledgement of how many times we'd contacted and tried to schedule...
...is it wrong that I have been so easy going about the whole wedding...EXCEPT for the pastor? UGH!