I'd like some advice on this--I'm not sure why I didn't think about this before...and now I'm getting a little worried (wedding is June 12)
We are having our wedding at my home parish in Texas--it is a huge parish of 28,000 people, and the place is pretty much a wedding factory. We did our FOCCUS with the deacon, and our Pre-cana through the diocese, so we have had no contact with the Monsignor of the church (the only priest). I've never really met the guy, and I've had 3 separate people tell us NOT to have him do our wedding. Great at admin, not so much at the whole spiritual aspect of the wedding. (He once gave an Easter homily that consisted of "I wasn't supposed to be doing this mass. Happy Easter" and is known for cutting you off during confession to keep it under a minute--no joke)
At any rate, I was going to try and find someone else, and figured we'd use him as a last resort. Now I'm not so sure he is available at all, and the priest we had some connections with is not available that day.
I really don't know who to ask now. Both our families moved around a lot and don't really have any connection with a priest like it seems a lot of people do, and it looks like there is no "de facto" priest.
Would it be weird to ask the priest of our parish here at school? It is a University parish, so he is used to dealing with students. I've talked to him on occasion, and he knows who I am, but we don't have much of a relationship. I do some volunteering around the Church and attend mass every Sunday, but I'm not as involved in the student ministry as I used to be (i.e. not much at all in the past 2 years). My sister is a "peer minister" at the Church and says she thinks he would jump at the chance, but I'm still not sure, since the wedding is 3.5 hours away.
Should I ask? Any other suggestions? I know I should have taken care of this much sooner.