Meeting the celebrant

[lady_borg]

We are meeting our celebrant today. We are having a non religious, non conventional ceremony

Comments

[sarcasticsiren]

Some questions:
What are your requirements to marry us? (generally, this only applies for religious officiants, who might only marry you if you promise to raise kids a certain religion or go through some counseling, but it never hurts to ask)
What will you say during the ceremony? How much of it can we personalize/write ourselves?
Will you run a rehearsal for us?
What are your fees (or do you require a donation)?
What will you wear to the wedding?
How early will you arrive at the wedding?

[gilneas]

When do you show up the day of the ceremony

[gilneas]

Oh, and one more: what is your process like? Will we meet again? Do you prefer email or phone communication?

[ipsafictura]

These are pretty much what I would want to know, the only thing I would add is a question about who their backup is in case of emergencies.

[i_am_an_angel]

I bought a wedding planning book, and it has checklists of questions you should ask. Most have to do with a religious officiant, though. One that might be a good question is are they available for a ceremony rehearsal?

[lady_borg]

I have three huge hardcover bound books with these and I ignored them all...they were all stupid and had nothing to do with what we want.

[cheeseydreams]

When we went to meet with our Justice of the Peace, he had a binder of sample ceremonies/vows/readings/etc for us to take home to go over, so maybe your celebrant will have something similar? Especially if you are like we were and have no clue. He also had a check list of things that he went over with us (like a rehearsal, how/when to get the marriage license).

[herladyship]

We found most of the nonreligious ceremonies were too cold, almost clinical, so we went with a religious ceremony and just replaced the word "god" with "family and friends", ie "Here we are, standing in the presence of family and friends..."