When should we meet with our officiant?

I am meeting with an officiant who I was refferred to from someone on WW. Our meeting is set for Nov.10th and wedding is in October. This specific officiant books up really quick..

I would call invite her for dinner, as discussed earlier. A good dinner with a dear friend never hurt anybody. At dinner you can ask her when you should start with details and that you have worked on them.

We start meeting with our pastor in June. I can email or call him with questions while I am working on timelines and readings....not sure if that helps :/

Thanks ladies. I guess Hubby's view is that since we're married already there's no rush. But I'm one of those people that like to get things crossed off my list ASAP.

Im going to book my officiant beginning of next year and its the same one I was planning on using the first time and I just met with him 5 months before the wedding and he had a set timeline and we discussed what I wanted. This was right before we actually booked him. I wasn't going to contact him until about two weeks before and then on rehearsal we would finalize the details with him. But thats just me. I wait until the literally the month before to really start. Plus, my planner takes charge. I interact with her and she talks to everyone for me.

We met about 3 weeks before with ours to go over the fine details. He is a friend of ours and we had had dinner with him over the course of a year after asking him to marry us so we casually talked over that time. But he had specific questions that we answered and then he wrote the ceremony from those questions.

Well I guess once again Hubby is right (that's between us girls). I already have everything written out as far as vows and the timeline is super short. So I guess I'll just keep in touch with her here and there like I usualy do and not schedule any formal meeting until next Spring. Okay, one less thing I have to deal with now

ETA: Thanks for the input ladies

You would want to meet with your officiant this far in advance for two reasons #1. To see if she is a good fit and you want to secure her services and #2. To have her get to know you as a couple so that she can present a warm and personalized ceremony. It sounds like you already have these two things covered, so you can probably wait--unless it's weighing on you and you just want to get it done.

On the other hand, it sounds like you've written your own ceremony from something you found on the Internet. I know from experience that often the ceremonies written by non-professionals need a lot more tweaking than couples usually think in order to make them flow smoothly. So, at the very least, you should email your officiant what you have put together thus far and get her input. Who knows? That email exchange may naturally lead to the dinner invitation you're thinking of and the whole issue will be resolved.

Good luck!