Wedding Officiant

A wedding officiant is perhaps best known as the person who leads the ceremony. However, that's only part of our job.  A wedding officiant is anyone who can legally officiate a marriage ceremony.  A wedding officiant often refers to a non-denominational and sometimes non-religious official who carries no affiliation with a church. Couples who don’t regularly attend a religious service or church often find this sort of wedding officiant ideal because of the flexibility this approach affords. When you use a non-denominational wedding officiant, you aren’t bound by the limits of any specific religious tradition or dogma. 

An officiant, whether secular or religious, works with the couple in the days/weeks/months before the wedding day to craft the ceremony, which may include personal vows, readings, music selections, and more.   The officiant must be legally ordained to perform weddings in your state and understand your jurisdiction's laws as they pertain to the marriage license. On your wedding day, your officiant will fill out and sign the marriage license (along with witnesses) and send it back to the county clerk's office for certification. This may sound like a minor detail, but without a marriage license, you're not actually married—so your wedding officiant has an essential role to play here.  As a wedding officiant I will never refuse to serve a person due to race, nationality, religion, politics, sexual orientation or status.  

I am not an attorney licensed to practice law and may not give legal advice about immigration or any other legal matter or accept fees for legal advice.