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DJ Joe

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My wedding last week (9/6) was an outdoor wedding and reception with the wedding starting at 5:30.

Well, at 5:30, the groom asks me if I've seen any "officiant" - I laugh and tell him I can pull up a ceremony script on my phone.

Well 5:30 turns into 6, no wedding officiant.

6:05, the Bride says have her cousin do it, they'll make it legal later.
at 6:30, the ceremony is over and the Bride and Groom are getting pictures taken - this guy comes running up to me and asks where the B & G are.

I ask him: "Are you the officiant?" Of course, he responds - I tell him to wait until the pictures are done before even approaching the b&G. But what do I know - he walks right over to them - the bride shoots him a look, and he turns right around and walks back towards me.

After their pictures, he did "legally" marry them in the green room before I introduced the wedding party.

What was his excuse? Traffic. Double booked a ceremony.
And his cell phone - dead - no car charger (Really?)
Excuse after excuse.

And he charges $500 for a half-hour ceremony. So, maybe I should get that internet officiant license?

-DJ Joe
 
I have one and have saved weddings. The cool thing is that during the slow times I work for a minister pool and make about $300 per wedding. On those days I do two it's not a bad gig - $600, home by 7pm, total equipment is one folder!

Another thing I offer is that B&Gs sometimes want Uncle Whomever to do the ceremony, and they are not ordained. I am, so they can do it, and I pull them to the side at the end and make it "legal".
 
I had that happen to me last year as well. The coordinator of the venue called a friend of her's who flew up to the hall and did the wedding. Only a half hour late with everything.

The JP told the bride he had an emergency at work and couldn't get away. Can you say BS. I did weddings when I was full time on the fire dept. The town could have burned down and I still wouldn't miss a wedding.
 
Me too.

I have had a couple on site weddings this year where they used court administrators.

Why not tap into this market?
 
I believe each state is different. For example, here in California no problem anyone registered with a church can marry a couple. However, when I got married in Nevada, the officiant had to be registered with the state.

We were able to get an officiant to sign off (paid the fee) and allow our guy to preside over the wedding.

Check your state laws...

G-Lou
 
Here in Virginia as well I had to pay a fee and register with the Clerk of the Cuircut court in the county where I reside, this fee has to be paid every year $40! I have had mine for five years and haven't been able to use it "TO SAVE THE DAY" for any B&G yet!

But it is fun to have on the wall!
 
Ron Auger said:
I had that happen to me last year as well. The coordinator of the venue called a friend of her's who flew up to the hall and did the wedding. Only a half hour late with everything.

The JP told the bride he had an emergency at work and couldn't get away. Can you say BS. I did weddings when I was full time on the fire dept. The town could have burned down and I still wouldn't miss a wedding.
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Ron a JP has several jobs that he or she must attend to before anything else writting arrest warrants, working bail for offenders are just two of those and take precedence over anything else, it may have been the case in your situation!

My spelling sucks today LOL
 
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