Officiant meal?

You can invite them, some will stay and some don't.

It would depend on "what kind of Officiant" you have. If its a pastor/other religious figure, I would say its customary to invite them to the wedding as a guest (along with their spouse).

If 'its "modern officiant", I would include them as a vendor.

With that said, we had a religious leader as our officiant and sent him and his wife an invitation. He ended up leaving after the ceremony, since his wife's mother just passed away....

I hadn't even thought of this!

We invited ours and her husband. They said yes but it may be because they're friends of the family. Like Delisa said, it could be that yours wants to stay, but maybe they won't.

Most of my couples do invite me, which is lovely, but I very rarely stay past a bit of cocktail hour. It's not that I don't love them, but I don't know anyone, it feels awkward, and I honestly don't want them to pay for me. And most of the time, I need to be somewhere else...

If your officiant is a family pastor or rabbi that you have a relationship with, you should invite them. They still may not stay, but it's kind of done.

No relationship with him but I know from his reviews his wife usually attends with him. I've no problem sending them an invite but wanted to see if that's normal here too lol

We invited our officiant and he (and his wife) had another engagement.

Celia's right. My partner is routinely invited to attend the weddings of our couples. It's flattering, it's lovely, and it's never going to happen. We don't know your guests. We don't want to cross the line between business and pleasure. On top of everything else, our day starts when your wedding day starts. When we're done, we really want to go home, shower, have a glass of whatever, and relax.

Thanks a mil all

We invited ours and his wife. The pastor is a friend of ours too. But they would get a guest meal not a vendor meal. Those are typically for people that are working during the reception. I assume your officiant will be done with their duties by then. If they aren't close to you, they will probably decline anyway.

The vendor meals usually cost less because they do not include alcohol.

The vendor meals usually cost less because they do not include alcohol.

Depends on the officiant. Ours has known me my whole life, so he and his family are invited as guests. If you don't know your officiant, maybe offer, but don't expect them to stay long.

Just ask them. Our specifically stated on his website and in person he leaves directly after. I of course said are you sure! You are more then welcome but he again declined.

Son and fdil's officiate is a judge that son has dealings with regularly (he's a police officer). The judge is invited as a guest to the reception and will be attending with his family. He will know several of the other officers and guests because they all live in a small town. I am creating one RD invitation, it will go to his honor. The rest of the RD guests are bridal party who are all family (or might as well be) and have been told what the plan is.

We will only have the photographer and DJ to provide for as vendors.

We invited our officiant and her husband. Due to the timing of the ceremony and reception, it looks like we won't be hosting our officiant for dinner but she was appreciative for the invite.

Our officiant let us know up front that he does not stay beyond the ceremony except for snapping a few pictures with us if we wanted.

Ours is a pastor and is invited with his wife as guests. My father is a pastor and has been issued an invitation to every reception and half of the rehearsal dinners of weddings he's officiated.

I invited ours and his wife but my family has a long time relationship with both.

I invited my Officiant and her husband to the wedding. She is a Judge & is best friends with my Aunt. She isn't charging us anything, and she will be staying for the wedding and sitting at my Aunt's table.