Officiant

I would just ask a close friend or family member that's good at public speaking since they don't need to be ordained.

My fiance's aunt will be our officiant at both our minimony and bigger ceremony! She will complete the paperwork to make it legal after the minimony, but she will reenact it for the larger ceremony as well

We picked one of my fiance's friends to officiate our wedding! I would suggest picking a family member or friend who is good with public speaking to officiate.

I still would pick a professional for this. Many of them offer a discount on vow renewal because they don't have to paperwork.

Just ask a friend or relative since you already did the legal stuff.

View Quoted Comment That’s a great idea, thanks! Family or friends really aren’t a true option for us just because we know none of them would respect our wishes for a non religious ceremony even if we have a script. Plus our friends are already in the wedding party so we really wouldn’t be able to take anyone from that lol

My grandma is ordained so we had her officiate the ceremony. She was so excited!

View Quoted Comment Yea, that's no good then. Professional might run about $100 or so for a non domination / non religious vow renewal around here. They charge less because there is less here paperwork for them here. Ours met with us via Skype and helped us write our atheist / sci fi ceremony.



We did dr who and star trek quotes for the readings and legend of zelda for the ring exchange. There was also a brief description of our relationship (how we met, etc) and a quick intro but no God or religion.

View Quoted Comment *they charge less here because there is less paperwork here.


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View Quoted Comment Your vows sound awesome! I never would’ve thought to incorporate any of that the way y’all did. I love it! Thanks for your input too!

I asked a friend to go online and complete a course to be ordained. Cost $40 and I went online to gather officiant templates and edited one to my liking. We postpone our wedding to next year but still plan on having a ceremony with 10 friends this October

We got married legally at the courthouse a few weeks ago because we didn't want to have an unknown officiant at our 15 person minimony on the 26th and online ordination isn't valid in our state. DH's brother will be doing the ceremony for us on the actual wedding date.