All I've heard since the proposal was "Where's the ceremony?" So for all of you that don't know yet, the ceremony will be held in a Garden. Neither Rob nor I are very religious, and we don't share the same religion to boot.
The problem with the garden ceremony was that it wasn't in a church. Therefore we don't have a built in officiant. Begin panicking now!
We originally wanted to find a Catholic priest to marry us in the Garden. This way, our marriage would be recognized by the church. However, upon further investigation, we found out that the Catholic church will not recognize your union as a marriage unless you are married in the church - marriage is a sacrament.
At this point, we were taking advice from anyone who would offer it. The first suggestion was Gordon Kushner, a non denominational officiant (for those of you that don't know, an officiant is similar to a Justice of the Peace). Gordon was amazing! He was able to meet up with us within days of our first phone call at my Grandpa's apartment. When he came in, he came with all the documents you could ever want, including a marriage license application. I'll probably go get another one with Rob anyway, but that's not the point.
Gord let us know that Rob and I can customize the ceremony however we would like. We can include as much or as little religion as we wanted to. This was a fantastic selling feature as that's exactly what Rob and I wanted. Just enough God to bless our marriage :)
Shortly after, we met with a Reverend. He too was very cordial and pleasant - just a little too religious for the both of us. When the bible was brought out, and readings suggested that included "The man is the head of the marriage..." I was blown away. I'm not trying to put down anyone's beliefs, but it's just not for me...
Now, we've sent Gord the cheque to 'retain' him for our wedding and if NOTHING else gets done... we can still get married :P
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