'Wanna write the wedding ceremony your couple actually wants? Wedding Zero to Ceremony Hero is no wham-bam filing cabinet of canned ceremony scripts for you to copy and paste. It's not a data dump of wedding instructions, either. Wedding Zero to Ceremony Hero is a step-by-step, follow-along process. The goal of this book is to teach you two things at once. First, as you read, you'll be learning all the ins and outs of a wedding ceremony-down to the granular details. Second, at the very same time, you'll be transforming yourself into a guide for your wedding couple. When you get to the end of this book, you'll be able to describe all the moving parts of a wedding ceremony, rock a planning session with your couple, and deliver the script they've always wanted. Are you at Wedding Zero? No problem! Mark Allan Groleau has helped thousands of new officiants and celebrants all over the world get rave reviews from their ceremonies. Now it's your turn. This ... is how you get to Ceremony Hero and write the script your couple has always wanted! "Mark's book not only epitomizes his commitment to his craft, but also demonstrates his desire to help the rest of us overcome our ceremony jitters and serve as officiant with total confidence, reverence, and joy. I met Mark as our two worlds collided-his teaching wedding officiant success, and mine teaching mobile notary and loan signing agent success. It's the perfect marriage of industries and passions! (See what I did there?) What truly bonded us, though, is our mutual passion for teaching others. On both fronts, the work matters! As a wedding officiant, whether your couple asked you as a friend or hired you as a professional, you're being counted on to help make their nuptials special. Give your couples, their guests, and yourself the gift of learning from the best so you can deliver a ceremony they will remember forever. Read this book! In fact, read the whole series!" - Bill Soroka, founder of NotaryCoach.com & author of Sign & Thrive: How to Make Six Figures as a Mobile Notary and Loan Signing Agent "More and more, modern couples are enlisting the help of a dear friend or relative to marry them. To pronounce them married. It's a big job, and you're the chosen one for the job of officiant or celebrant. You need this guide! In Mark Allan Groleau, you have an expert officiant guiding you step by step as you craft and execute a modern wedding ceremony. Seriously, we call on Mark quite often and we cannot sing his praises enough. If we were getting married, we'd want Mark to marry us! Whether you are a layman or a professional, this will help you be the best damn wedding officiant you can be. So go ahead - marry your friends! We believe in you, and we believe in Mark's process." - Christy Matthews & Michelle Martinez, hosts/producers of The Big Wedding Planning Podcast & The Big Wedding Planning Master Class

If you are performing your friend's or relative's wedding ceremony, there is so much that you just don't know. And certainly, many things can go wrong on this super important day. Take the advice given by a professional wedding officiant, who has performed hundreds of wedding ceremonies and knows the problems that can occur. This book will prepare you so you don't make the mistakes many beginners make and it will give you many tips that will ensure your first time officiating a wedding will be a success!

"The Wedding Officiant's Manual: A guide to Writing, Planning and Officiating Wedding Ceremonies" The Wedding Officiant's Manual is an essential guide for anyone who wants to create a wedding ceremony. Sunny Dawn Johnston, an Ordained Officiant with over a decade of experience, has written this book from the Officiants perspective. However, this manual can be used by brides, grooms and wedding consultants as well as ceremony Officiants. This guide contains fourteen complete ceremonies and a variety of vows, poems, prayers, blessings and wedding traditions. There are also several special tips that only a seasoned pro would know. Johnston's goal is to offer you a variety of material that honors your unique beliefs, traditions and intentions. "The Wedding Officiant's Manual" takes the guesswork out of the ceremony creating process and gives you options galore, all in one handy book. Included is a Q&A form to make the entire experience from beginning to end as stress free as possible. This is the Ultimate guide for step-by-step instruction on creating the perfect ceremony.

So your best friend or family member just asked you to officiate their wedding. Congratulations! Now you realize that you don't know where to start, but don't worry, that is where The Modern Officiant's Guide comes in. This guide was created to allow you to make the perfect ceremony for any couple. Here you will learn to create ceremonies for your friends and family of any faith and for the non-religious people in your life as well. The Modern Officiant's guide will teach you everything you need to know as quickly as possible.Inside you will find a simple, straightforward and step by step guide to creating the perfect wedding ceremony. This book will guide you through the technicalities of becoming an officiant, your responsibilities, talking with the happy couple, selecting the correct readings or rituals, making sure nothing is overlooked and, in the end, creating the perfect ceremony. You can do this! And the Modern Officiant's Guide is here to help you through every step to make a beautiful and memorable ceremony.

Of everything that goes into making your wedding day special, it is the ceremony that you can take some control over and that you can ensure the guests remember most. The wedding ceremony, whenever possible, should be an outward expression of feelings of love you and your fiancé have for one another. Can there be any greater opportunity than to assist your chosen wedding officiant in expressing your spiritual feelings and love in your wedding ceremony? It all begins with an assumption that no matter what faith you and your fiancé individually or together follow, regardless of your families' religious traditions - Catholic, Protestant, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, other faith, or no particular organized faith. you have been blessed with the gift of love. The desire to commit for life should override any other consideration including different faiths, different cultures, previous marriage, or bringing children into the marriage. Nothing should get in the way of you having the wedding ceremony of your dreams. You can make it a special moment to be remembered for a lifetime! What about prerequisites or problems that might impact whether someone feels or thinks you are "fit" for marriage? Unless they are a clergyman or counseling professional who has specific intimate knowledge of you and your fiancé that would preclude them from officiating your marriage, they should commit to observing only what is required by local, state, and federal laws. If your wedding officiant is focused more on their desires than yours - find someone else to officiate for you! As a bride or groom, you are in a position to eliminate the roadblocks that others will place in your way. What you will find after your initial meetings with the officiant is that they may or may not be a major source of relief and comfort to you. When the wedding officiant is focused on you, your needs, desires, and concerns, when they discover that you expect them to remove roadblocks, they will either step up to the plate and serve you or back away and if they do back away, they are doing you a favor. Look, you are in love, and to them, nothing else should matter - and you as their client can show them how true that is. Here are a few issues and questions that wedding officiants can and should resolve for you: Your families are of different religions or you are just spiritual, how do you create a wedding ceremony that will please the families and still honor your feelings? You are Catholic but because of divorce, you cannot get married in the Parish. Can you have a Catholic-style ceremony and have a wedding that your parents will appreciate and be comfortable with? You want a traditional ceremony but the location is nontraditional. What can you do to make this wedding perfect, even if it's in a hotel conference room? Can you have just a short spiritual ceremony but provide all the elements that our guests will expect? You have children that one or both of you are bringing into the marriage. How do you include them in the ceremony? Can you get married now quietly for personal purposes and have the ceremony for your family later? How do you do that? Who do you contact? How can you make your wedding ceremony as Catholic as possible? How do you combine different nontraditional actions, such as: coins, veil, and cording breaking of the glass jumping the broom salt & bread honey & dates drinking a cup of wine table ceremonies What is presented here has been a proven formula for success in over 1,900 weddings - no need to reinvent the wheel! Apply the details of this book and you will be successful in creating the wedding of your dreams.

Gravitas and fun get married within these pages, and we're all invited Certified lifecycle celebrant Christopher Shelley is on a mission to revolutionize the wedding ceremony—or at least to make it as enjoyable as the reception. In Best. Ceremony. Ever., he will forever alter the way couples and wedding pros think about tying the knot. Shelley, who has officiated hundreds of weddings, walks couples and officiants through working together, from setting the atmosphere to telling an unforgettable love story. He shares questions for the couple to ask themselves before meeting with their officiant, and offers a wedding vow workshop and complete sample ceremonies. Shelley cares about the guests as much as the couple getting married, and his friendly, entertaining guide is a treasure chest of ideas to make guests laugh, cry, and then laugh at how much they’re crying. From announcing the wedding (insert cliff-hanger) to selecting venues (consider breweries!) to choreographing processionals (dance party!) to explosive recessionals (balloon drop!), opportunities to surprise guests abound.