I now pronounce you..

So like I said in the last post Josh and I finally found someone to marry us! It's funny it wasn't really that important to me who marries us, it was almost an after thought. Alot of weddings I have been to recently are officiated by a mentor or close friend who gets ordained online (for only $200 you can get the platinum business card - ohhh!!). Josh and I ideally would have loved that but we don't have any mentors or older people (who people would have taken seriously as an officiant) in our lives besides our siblings or parents.

As anyone who knows us knows Josh grew up in a world of grey and I on the other hand grew up in a world of black and white; or the 'cult' as Josh so lovingly calls it. So I thought it was going to be complicated or more of a battle to finally settle on someone. Shockingly it was more trouble finding someone then it was deciding on them. We went to the wedding minister.com who married Kelly & Adam and did great! Mostly because Adam wrote the whole ceremony, but I digress. He wasn't available but offered up his first back-up, who then turned out to be unavailable. He then offered his 2nd back-up who was available (woo hoo) so we made our way to Norcross to meet him.

He asked us all kinds of questions about our faith background, how we wanted our wedding to feel and about our family. He was extremely easy to talk and had no problems with us writing our own vows. He left us with a bunch of ceremonies to look through. At first I didn't like the idea of choosing from a several ceremonies that tons of other people had used before us, it didn't seem very 'different'. But since we are writing our own vows I figured it's fine to have the same ceremony as someone else. So we've picked one and I'm really happy with it.

I'm happy to check one more thing off the list (possibly one of the most important things!) and glad it wasn't an argument.

2 more things to add to the list:

1. Write Maid of Honor Speech for Kat's wedding
2. Write my vows - I'm hoping they just magically come to me.