Picking an Officiant!

This is one of those wedding planning tasks that I've put off for awhile. I know that I want to customize a ceremony for us and that I want it to have a vague Christian-y flavor.  That's pretty much where I was stuck.  In our packet of planning materials DFTW provided us a list of officiants they've worked with and that was my starting point.

The list has 12 names on it.  I immediately crossed out the ones who don't have websites.  Do they think I'm actually going to call people and talk to them?  Euuh!  I will seriously avoid making an actual phone call and having to talk to someone for as long as I possibly can.



That brought me down to nine.

I noticed that two of the names on the list are for rabbis.  I probably can't count on them for a Christian-lite wedding ceremony so I crossed them out too.

I'm down to seven.

So I went to the DIS boards and started reading about other Disney brides' experiences with the various officiants. I made some notes and then I wanted to start looking at those websites.

One was non-existent.  I got sent to a weird holder site that looked really sketchy.  Crossed off another one.

Eeny Meeny Miny Mo is not appropriate
in this situation!

There were two guys I was planning to choose between.

One of the frontrunners had a great reputation and lots of brides loved him but he had a website that looked like it hadn't been updated since 1995, including a mauve, textured background; white Times New Roman print and about a hundred misspellings.  Plus when I looked at his picture, he kinda looked like Joe Paterno and that freaked me out on a whole bunch of different levels. So I wasn't so keen on using him anymore.

The other guy from the Disney list that I was okay with was used by a popular Disney wedding blogger and she had an iffy experience.  When I contacted her to ask about it she made a point to say that while it wasn't a great experience for her, most of the other brides she knew who used him were very happy with the results. His website was okay.  It looked like a pretty straightforward template type deal.  He pretty much fit the image of what you'd expect a minister to look like.  Still, going through his FAQ and other info something just seemed off to me and I have to go with my gut here.

This was getting to be more complicated than I'd anticipated.  I was thinking that I'd close my eyes, make a circle in the air with my pointer finger and pick one.  Nope.

I played the game where you click on links from links and an hour later, somehow I ended up on the website for Sensational Ceremonies.  A really nice website for wedding officiants in Florida (and a satellite branch in Tennessee?  Weird!). The site looks professional and current.  I couldn't find any blatant misspellings or grammatical errors in the text.  There was a lot of real information and pictures.

I googled the owner's name and found that he gets rave reviews all over the web.   So I requested information and we're playing phone tag.  If all goes well, we'll be married by Rev. Glynn Ferguson!