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Jordan
Beginner July 2021

Pastor

Jordan, on March 2, 2020 at 1:53 PM Posted in Planning 0 8
Me and my fiance date for our wedding is August 1 of 2020. But we can not find a pastor for our wedding. Every pastor we been to wants us to counseling with them. But me and my fiance do not have time for it. Cause we both work 40 hours jobs. I do not know what to do. If we should just elope or just go to the court house with our parents and just get married. We have been together for 5 years. And I do not know what to do about this. I am freaking out

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Latest activity by Julia, on March 2, 2020 at 8:17 PM
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    Legend June 2019
    Melle ·
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    Can you find an officiant? There’s plenty of officiants that aren’t pastors that’ll just officiate your wedding. Is there a reason it needs to be a pastor
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  • Christine
    Expert September 2020
    Christine ·
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    You have at least five months until the wedding, you should be able to find time for premarital counseling unless you work schedules that are opposite of each other (like if one of you always works weekends or evenings and the other is a traditional M-F daytime job). There's no reason that premarital counseling has to be during your workday, you can definitely find time!

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  • Rebelle Fleur
    Master July 2021
    Rebelle Fleur ·
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    I’d just ask one of my friends to go through the process online and be the officiant.
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  • Andrea
    Super May 2020
    Andrea ·
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    My fiancé and I both work full time jobs and have been able to do premarital counseling without a problem at all. But it was important to us and we made it a priority. If it’s not important to you, you will never find the tone for it.
    In my area, there isn’t a church that will marry you without at least counseling. If you don’t want to find the time for counseling I would suggest you have an officiant marry you
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    Devoted October 2021
    Erin ·
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    In my area it's pretty common that you have to do some amount of premarital counseling with your pastor or priest before they will marry you. Have any of them said how much counseling they want to do? For our priest we are only meeting with him twice, once 6 months out and the other about a month out. And all his time slots set aside for counseling are evenings and weekends since lots of couples have 40hr a week jobs and can't meet other times.
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  • Anna
    Super August 2020
    Anna ·
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    Is there a reason why you want a pastor instead of an officiant?
    An officiant would be a lot easier....
    A pastor almost always requires counselling before they will perform the marriage. We did ours on weekends- is that an option?

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  • Jordan
    Beginner July 2021
    Jordan ·
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    Thank u everyone for the reply back. You girls are so helpful. Maybe me and my fiance can maybe find a officiant to do our wedding. Thank u so much again
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  • Julia
    Dedicated October 2020
    Julia ·
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    Look for an officiant in your area. You can also hire a judge from your local court usually magistrate to come and officiate the wedding
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