I now pronounce you: hut, HUT!
Jason and I met with our officiant earlier this week to go over the general order of our wedding ceremony.
He gave us a book of sample vows and readings, which we’ll pore over tonight, and I’m pretty sure we’ll go the more traditional route, because otherwise our personalized vows would be something like this:
Jason: “I, Jason, promise to take you to Buffalo Wild Wings every week. I will love and cherish you even though you sleep in on the weekends, leaving me to fend for myself for entertainment in the wee morning hours. I promise not to make fun of you for forgetting everything, including my middle name. I will make jokes about that for as long as we both shall live.”
Shauna: “I, Shauna, promise to try to get up early, without assistance, at least once in my life without complaining. I will love and cherish you even though you insist on pulling “stray” hairs from my head that are almost always still attached. I promise not to make fun of you when you fall asleep while in the middle of counting your cribbage hand. I will make jokes about that for as long as we both shall live.”
The officiant then wanted to visualize how everyone would be standing during the ceremony. As he talked through the order of the bridal party and how they would be entering, he sketched it out, while Jason and I both got a case of the uncontrollable giggles, because he drew this:
Maybe we should have a giant cooler of Gatorade to dump over Jason’s head after we’re pronounced husband and wife.
Just scream “goooaaaaallll!” when he pronounces you husband and wife.
Comment by Flibberty — August 23, 2007 @ 5:04 pm
We made sure to get the word “flexibility” into our vows.
Your officiant sounds so…vigorous!
Comment by blacksheeped — August 23, 2007 @ 6:51 pm
Okay, my fiance and I are just in the process of trying to find an officiant for our wedding. We have had some trouble finding one. How did you find yours? Although he does sound slightly maniacal, so maybe I don’t quite want to know.
Also, I’m a new reader so I’m obviously not caught up on the details of your wedding. When is it? And where? And congrats, also.
Comment by Jess — August 23, 2007 @ 8:41 pm
Man, he is THOROUGH. Most officiants I have known pretty much phone it in.
Our officiant barely spoke English, so every time we repeated something he gave us this confused look and said “OK, great!”
Comment by Tessie — August 24, 2007 @ 8:27 am
Hi Jess – welcome!
We found our officiant kind of by accident. Well before we were even engaged, we decided to take the Prepare-Enrich premarital test and his name popped up as someone certified to administer it.
We met with him, took the test and really, really liked him. He’s a chaplain for a major hospital and just a great, friendly, warm guy. After meeting with him for awhile, we asked him to be our officiant and he agreed. If you want his name, email me at picklesdimes@comcast.net.
We’re getting married October 6 in Woodbury at an indoor park. It’s coming up fast!
Comment by Shauna — August 24, 2007 @ 8:59 am
Oops!
Hey Jess! I just noticed that you live in Washington DC. So our local guy might not work out.
Comment by Shauna — August 24, 2007 @ 9:00 am
Thanks for the info, Shauna! You are right that I am not local so yeah, he himself will probably not work out too well, but the process you used to find him is definitely good info. I have limited my search method to Google so far, and it’s not been working out so well.
Your wedding is so soon! I am looking forward to hearing all about it.
Comment by Jess — August 24, 2007 @ 9:23 am
Cats are horrible.
I LOVE THEM.
This week I’m going to officially start the switch from fancy wet food to raw meat. It’s gonna be good.
Good=I’ll want to shoot myself after a few days.
My etsy is technically reopened, and I have some of the older things relisted. Hopefully I’ll get some new things listed this week! It’s http://www.kararee.etsy.com.
Comment by blacksheeped — August 28, 2007 @ 1:45 pm