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jash009
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Offciant Issues
re-post from April 2012
I need some opinions...
We booked our officiant over a year ago and tentaively told him our ceremony would be at 5pm. Over the course of the year we changed our ceremony to 4pm. I checked with the venue to OK this and went ahead and printed and sent out our invites.
Only last week, did I realize that we did not let our officiant know about the time change... and low and behold, he has another wedding booked for 4pm that day and says the earliest ceremony he could host for us would be at 4:45pm.
My FI has suggested having a mini-cockatil reception prior to the ceremony and thinks it might be fun for the guests. My concern is this: if he has another ceremony AT 4PM - about 10 minutes away from our venue, that's cutting it really close to get to our venue, meet up with us before the ceremony and get started for 4:45, that seems to good to be true.
Our only other option is to lose our $100 deposit and find someone new that has availability 6 weeks from now. I'm leaning towards this option, because I just cannot believe that this guy is planning on doing two weddings within an hour. I will be totally at the mercy of this other couple, I mean what if the bride is late or their ceremony runs long?
Any opinions would be really helpful! I'm freaking out a little bit and so mad at myself for letting this happen!
I need some opinions...
We booked our officiant over a year ago and tentaively told him our ceremony would be at 5pm. Over the course of the year we changed our ceremony to 4pm. I checked with the venue to OK this and went ahead and printed and sent out our invites.
Only last week, did I realize that we did not let our officiant know about the time change... and low and behold, he has another wedding booked for 4pm that day and says the earliest ceremony he could host for us would be at 4:45pm.
My FI has suggested having a mini-cockatil reception prior to the ceremony and thinks it might be fun for the guests. My concern is this: if he has another ceremony AT 4PM - about 10 minutes away from our venue, that's cutting it really close to get to our venue, meet up with us before the ceremony and get started for 4:45, that seems to good to be true.
Our only other option is to lose our $100 deposit and find someone new that has availability 6 weeks from now. I'm leaning towards this option, because I just cannot believe that this guy is planning on doing two weddings within an hour. I will be totally at the mercy of this other couple, I mean what if the bride is late or their ceremony runs long?
Any opinions would be really helpful! I'm freaking out a little bit and so mad at myself for letting this happen!
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Re: Offciant Issues
Thanks again!!
Fall Wedding Bio
[QUOTE]Our original officiant dropped out 6 weeks before the wedding because he didn't realize our wedding was on a Friday (although he understood the date, for some odd reason he assumed it was on a Saturday and made plans for a Friday. Said he could still do it but would have to leave at 6:30...ceremony was suppose to start at 6pm and I wanted it 40 minutes long). So 6 weeks before the wedding we hunted for a new one and it worked out great!
Posted by TiffannieF[/QUOTE]
I'm glad to hear that you had a positive experience! I can only hope ours works out the same! Ty!
Did you book through a company, or is your officiant a freelancer? If they're with a company, you should start there and see if they have another person available for your date/time.