So I have found myself in somewhat of a sticky situation and I'm not sure what the best way to move forward is, here's the backstory (get a glass of wine, this is a long one):
I asked a minister that I knew from middle/high school at my parent's church to officiate our wedding sometime back in the fall (the ceremony is outdoors at the reception site). This particular minister is not at the church my partents attend any more but he is still in the same town. We originally spoke over the phone and he seemed very excited to be a part of our wedding. He requested to meet with my fiance and I a few times in person before the wedding. Well my fiance lives about an hour from there and I live about 3 hours away, so we set up a specifc time to meet with the minister when we would both be in town in October. We went to the coffee shop that we had agreed to meet the minister at on a Sunday afternoon and waited for a while, but he never showed. I called his cell phone a few times and he finally answered and said that he had fallen asleep and he would need to reschedule. We were pretty annoyed because we had made this trip specifically to meet with him, but I figured it was out of character for him, and we agreed to get back in touch next time we were in town. He texted me a couple of weeks ago just to check in and told us to let him know when we would be there next. Well we finally were able to work out a day in March that we would both be there, so I texted him this past Sunday and asked if he was available that date. When he hadn't texted back by yesterday, I told my fiance that I would send him one more text and if I didn't hear anything by today then I was going to ask a different minister from my parents church. Well I never heard anything back, so I went ahead and contacted someone else today, but I had to leave a voicemail so I don't know for sure if they are available. Just a few hours after I had contacted the second minister, I get a text back from our original saying that he can meet in March.
Now I don't know what to do. Our original minister seems a bit unreliable and that is the last thing I need to be worrying about on the wedding day. So my questions is, how do you dump your officiant?!