Officiant Seating??

Yes you invite them. Typically they will decline if you are not close to them and are a stranger providing a service as opposed to a family pastor or friend.


If they accept (again, typically only if they are your pastor or a friend), they are seated among the guests with everyone else.

Their spouse and children are only invited if they would be guests anyway.

If they are someone that you have a personal relationship with, like a preacher, then I would invite them. If they’re a regular hired vendor, I would not. If they are invited, just like any other guest, their spouse should be invited with them. Where are you seating the rest of the vendors at your reception? If it’s with your guests and not in a separate room, that’s where I would put them.

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I just added, because I forgot to note, he was hired off of Wedding Wire- so we don't know him on a personal level.

And, I honestly hadn't thought about where my vendors would sit. I only have my DJ, photographer, and Officiant. Would like get their own table then?

Your vendors do not eat with your guests, and your venue will accommodate them.

Officiants are usually invited to the reception, and most decline. (Particularly if they are clergy.) Ours was a close friend who would have been invited, anyway, so he and his wife *did* joint the reception (and the dance floor), so we sat him with mutual friends.

Given that yours is hired off WW, you might want to reach out to him about what he would be comfortable with - and if he'd like a meal, or not.

Yes you send him and his wife an invitation. As others have said if you don’t know them personally they’ll probably decline.
Mine came because they were our mentor couple from church. I have some older friends from my old church that day then with. They didn’t know each other, but every got along and had a good time.

I Will Not Be Inviting Ours.

He is a vendor and should sit with your other vendors. Your reception hall should have an area designated to your vendors. Our officiant was a family friend and sat with our parents.

Most will decline, especially if you hired him off WeddingWire, but you should invite. Vendors don't need a table - the venue will provide seating.

So glad someone else asked this. I have been trying to figure this out for the last few weeks.