Being a marriage celebrant poses so many challenges and
let me also add that being Annie’s secretary can
sometimes be excruciating both mentally as well as
physically but she assures me that she loves me and
cannot do without me and thus I continue on.
Challenge No: I
- I must say Annie often has quite a difficult time
particularly when weddings are outside and whether the
weather will hamper the site for the ceremony.
It is so difficult when the bride has her heart
set on getting married under her favourite old oak tree
and awakens the morning of her wedding to blustering
winds and pouring rain.
Mid morning the decision has to be made will we
proceed and pray for sun or will we not.
Over the years I have learnt that it is so
important to try and adhere to the wishes of the bride
and groom and to stick with the original plan for as
long as possible so by 10am the final decision is made
and set in fine print exactly where the ceremony will
take place.
This usually works although sometimes I end up with wet
curly hair and resemble a drowned black duck.
Challenge No: II
- Although I have a huge vat of poetry and verses that I
offer to couples sometimes I get the couple that might
say that Aunty Mary has written her own verse and at the
last minute Aunty Mary gets a touch of the nerves and
the reading is left up to ‘yours truly’.
At one wedding the writing was so squiggly I had
to make up half of the verse and to this day I still
have no idea what I said.
Challenge No: III
- I
recently celebrated a couple’s marriage out of
town and the couple
decided at the last minute that they wanted the
photos taken late’ish in the afternoon as it was a hot
summers day.
A great idea you think but it was almost dark by
the time the ceremony began and I ended up having to
retrieve my extra copy of the ceremony, which my trust
secretary had printed off in ‘glow in the dark’ ink,
from my trusty celebrant’s briefcase.
The golden rule of any celebrant, be prepared for
any situation.
It actually was quite hilarious as there ended up
being a lot of uninvited guests there being those pesky
mosquitoes and luckily one the guests had a torch on his
key ring which saved the day or night as the case turned
out to be.
Often when you are conducting a ceremony there are
uncontrollable noises which result in cranking up the
microphone to a higher decibel.
The likes of boat engines or car horns or
gorgeous young children losing the plot; even magpies
trying to take dominion over the ceremony.
At one ceremony which I will never forget I got a
dose of the coughs, a terrible tickle in the back of my
throat which just would not go away.
The lovely photographer saw my plight and dashed
over to my rescue with a glass of water.
Did I tell you about the time that I swallowed the fly,
I don’t know why I swallowed that fly, I could have
quite easily died of embarrassment and after the
ceremony one of the funny guests came up behind me and
frightened the ***** out of me by leaping around and
pretending to be a spider and reciting there was the
spider that swallowed the fly I don’t know why he
swallowed that fly, perhaps he’ll die.
This Newsletter's ZIP and ZAP
Ensure that citronella or aero guard is one hand for
that twilight summer wedding.
Regards
Annie
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