11 expert tips on how to perform and officiate your first wedding
Congratulations, you’ve been asked to officiate a wedding ceremony for a loved one! Preparing to officiate your first wedding can be daunting, but we’ve got expert tips covering “What do you say as a wedding officiant?” to “What do I even wear?” Let’s get your ready to perform and officiate your first wedding!
Officiating a wedding? You need these wedding ceremony interview questions!
So you’ve been asked to officiate a friend’s ceremony and you have no idea where to start? Well, we’ve got you. At Offbeat Wed, not only do we have a massive archive of wedding ceremony scripts for folks who are officiating a wedding, plus tons of advice about how to officiate a wedding… but today we’ve got questions you can ask the couple getting married to help you write your wedding officiant script.
Gender affirming: I wore a tux for the first time, officiating my sister’s wedding
When my sister asked me to officiate her wedding I felt honored and excited. As a recording artist, I’m using to being in front of crowds, but acting as my sister’s officiant, this would be the first time since my transition that my entire family would be seeing me in a tuxedo. Talk about a gender-affirming opportunity!
How to officiate a friend’s wedding with grace & humor
For many of us who are tapped to officiate a wedding for a couple of dear friends, it is our first experience designing a ritual, not to mention one so important. We take to the trusty Internet for answers, but find little. We can’t look to previous generations for wisdom, as most of them were either married by a religious figure by choice or obliged by their parents. To help fill in the gap, here are a few of the practices I’ve picked up along the way or created whole cloth.