Invite officiant to dinner?

I am wondering if we are supposed to invite our officiant to dinner. We are getting married in a destination, having the ceremony on the beach of our hotel and then going out to dinner at a restaurant. I just picked her randomly off the internet. We are doing a champagne toast on the beach.... [Read more]

Wedding Officiant Problems

Our wedding is coming up in August and my fiance's cousin who is a Minister agreed to perform our ceremony. Tonight, we were informed that our Minister has decided he no longer wishes to perform. This naturally brought confusion and all my fiance's mother would tell us was that he didnt think what.... [Read more]

Minister or not...?

My husband and I are renewing our vows on 09/17/04 and I'm just wondering... I keep "reading" that for a renewal of vows a minister from the church is not required, however, when we first married we had our ceremony in a park not far from our home and we were married by a Justice of the Peace - I.... [Read more]

Unitarian Minister in another Church?

My finance and I are not particularly religious but we still want to get married by a minister in a church. We have chosen a Unitarian minister and right now we are planning on having the ceremony at the Unitarian Church she works in. The building itself is very non-traditional (un-matching folding.... [Read more]

Do you tip the wedding officiant (minister)?

We are contracting a pastor (found him on the internet) to be our wedding officiant. We've met up with him once before and he is really a very pleasant man and is making a lot of effort to make sure the 1/2h ceremony are exactly the way we want it.

1) Is it considered "good manners" to send him a.... [Read more]