We're planning our wedding long distance. We had found an officiant online and met with him when we were in town over 4th of July. Since we were kind of in a time crunch, we paid the $50 non-refundable deposit before our trip.
When we were in town, he forgot about our meeting and was 20 minutes late. When he finally got there, we asked him about himself/his views on marriage, and he spent 10 minutes explaining the pay structure (we had found him through a website that's essentially a broker, so he was explaining that it would cost more to cover the broker's fee). Then he spend the rest of the meeting doing a sales pitch about his wine box ceremony (which was a cool idea, but he presented it as if it would be the cornerstone of our marriage and would solve any problem we EVER faced as a couple..).
Needless to say, we weren't terrribly thrilled with him. We just found a different officiant that we like a lot better and want to work with. How do we go about firing him without it being awkward? I would just send him an email and call it a day, but the catch is - he's performing another ceremony at the same venue as ours an hour and a half after our ceremony!