Two officiants?!

Hire a professional and do not ask your family to work on your wedding. Maybe have your father lead a prayer and his brother a reading or something to that affect if you would like them to be included!

Also: it would work as a good compromise rather than arguing about who gets to do the ceremony/equally divy up the ceremony ETC.

Potentially UO: Given that they're both pastors, I don't see an issue with having either of them officiate your wedding. It'll definitely be more personal than if you were to hire someone you're unfamiliar with.

As far as two, I've never seen it done... and I think it could be weird to have both.

You could have one officiate and one do a reading?

While I have never seen two pastors before, my FH and I are actually doing this for our wedding but they are not family. My FH's pastor from his family's church and my pastor my family's church will both be officiating the ceremony in my home church. We haven't found our own home church yet so this was a nice middle for us because both our pastor's have seen each of us grow up.

I have seen lots of weddings with two pastors, it is when both parties have a strong relationship with their clergy. I see nothing wrong with that.

It sounds like there will be issues with family dynamics - who does what. Let's ask Celia Milton!!! (Seriously.....paging Celia!!!) Plus having family members work at your wedding......yikes. Your officiant is SUPER important so if something goes wrong.......uh oh. Awkward.

I totally get why both of you want your family to perform your ceremony....yes have them both...They both are pastors so they should be able to professionally work together to give you both the ceremony you so want. If you wish to hire a stranger to perform the ceremony then you could have one person give a reading or prayer during the ceremony and the other give the blessing over dinner.

I've seen weddings with two pastors. It is not a weird thing, and if they're well-done donated, it's perfectly smooth. No big deal.

We're sorta having two officiants. FHs dad is going to stand at the front and give a nice welcome speech before the processional, then I'll walk down with my dad who'll then take over at the front as officiant. As for friendors, I think we have a whole different problem if my dad doesn't show up to his only child's wedding

We are planning on having two. My aunt is ordanied, my mom's sister. My Fh wants a pastor he knows, family friend of his. We had a hard time deciding. So, let them split the ceremony or share it for the bringing together of you two. I hope the vision I have, it will work.

My Fh's officiant is currently now doing our pre-martial counseling.

I've never seen it done but I'm sure that doesn't mean people don't do it. However, to avoid a conflict about it, compromise by hiring a professional and asking the family members to do a blessing/prayer and a reading. That also gets you away from using "friendors."

They are "pros". They're both pastors.

In your shoes I would have both since both are pros and close family.

If you're bilingual, maybe have one officiant speak in the non-English language?

Hire a professional, licensed officiant and have each person do a reading. That's a good compromise.

We had 3 priests at our ceremony, one of who is DH's father. They just talked together and divided up the ceremony and who was doing what. There were no problems.

To all the people saying to hire a pro, this is an exception, I think, because they are pros. They're already ordained, not getting "ordained" to perform her wedding.

We're having two officiants. It was important to have a family friend who we've known since I was in elementary school, but his church was too far away. So we are having our ceremony at FH's church, and both the pastor of his church and the pastor we wanted are splitting the ceremony.

In that situation, I would go the neutral third party and hire a pro. That way, you don't hurt one of their feelings too much and they can both enjoy the day stress free.

I don't see a problem with that. It's very personal to have a family member officiate and it's honestly a 5-10 minute job, and I bet they could "split" the ceremony. (Example: his dad has your FH repeat the vows after him, your bro has you repeat your vows after him)

Ok sure they're both pros but you're still in the situation where you feel like you can't let one down. So maybe a better choice of words than "hire a pro" is hire a neutral third party so you don't have to choose. And unlike what a PP said, it's much more than a 5-10 minute job to write a personalized ceremony script, edit it after feedback from bride and groom, direct the rehearsal and keep the flow the ceremony itself, etc.

I've seen people with two officiants before, specifically an interfaith marriage with a rabbi and a priest.

How does your brother feel about officiating?

I don't think there's anything wrong with having a family member officiate, because it's a very personal decision and means a lot to people (both the couple and family alike) to be involved in such an integral way. I think those ceremonies are beautiful and touching, and I think it's different than asking a family member to be your photographer or caterer since it's such a short portion of the wedding AND is spent with the couple the entire time, as opposed to a photographer or caterer who will be working most of the wedding secluded from the activities.