Hi all! We are meeting our officiant this evening, and I am very excited but a little nervous. I attend a Congregational church, but we are not getting married there since it is in downtown Boston and would be too logistically difficult for our family to get to. We found a pastor from the Congregational church near our venue who would be willing to marry us there, outside, which is perfect! We also learned that he will allow us to have a lot of input into our ceremony, which we did not expect since most of our married friends have had Catholic weddings and things for them were pretty structured.
We are hoping to have very traditional vows and no unity candle or other unity ceremony (FI burned himself on the unity candle at his mom's wedding when he was 12, the poor guy) so hopefully that will be okay with him. I feel a little nervous and awkward about bringing up the financial/donation aspects since a Reverend is quite different from a regular vendor, but hopefully he will bring it up first or have a standard pamphlet or something. Has anyone else met their officiant yet? How did it go?
In other news, I am home sick today so spending some time researching honeymoon locations. Belgium was definitely just a dream-in reality we have a "medium" budget (US or Canada, no weird/expensive airports, probably no Europe or Hawaii) and one of our ideas was to go to a national park out west, have a couple of nights in a nice lodge, and then a couple of nights backpacking. I realized today, however, that all of the nice lodges near the parks we could get to are already booked up for our week, and the not-so-nice looking ones are starting to go too. We won't be financially ready to book until Jan or Feb, so looks like its back to the drawing board there...