How to Perform a Wedding: A Pastor’s Step-by-step Guide

Here’s how to perform a wedding. 

1. Know Legal Requirements

First, you need to make sure that you are legally able to perform the wedding, meeting all of the requirements of the law where you live. 

2. Meet With The Couple

Next, you need to meet with the couple to discuss the wedding. Get to know them, hear more about their story, decide if you need to do premarital counseling, map out the order of the ceremony, those sorts of things.

3. Premarital Counseling

Then, you may need to meet a few more times with the couple if you’re doing counseling with them. And you’ll want a plan for what you’re going to discuss and how you will run those meetings.

4. Write The Wedding Ceremony

After that, you need to write the wedding ceremony script. What exactly will you say during each part of the ceremony, from the welcome to the message to the vow exchange and more? That can take some time.

5. Wedding Rehearsal

Then, you may be the one everyone looks at to run the wedding rehearsal. So you’ll need to know how to do that.

6. Perform the Wedding

Finally, you’ll get to the big day. It’s time to perform the wedding. So you need to be able to guide the couple through the ceremony, reading your script with excellence and avoiding a lot of the common pitfalls that pastors make during wedding ceremonies.

And after all of that, you are done… sort of.

Now, if all of that just overwhelmed you, let me set you at ease. You are normal.

Most pastors get overwhelmed when asked to perform a wedding, especially your first time. I know I was. 

But I have good news for you: I’ve been serving in ministry for over 15 years, and in that time I have performed a lot of weddings. I’ve learned a ton and worked out a system to make weddings fun and easy. And I have taken all of that knowledge from the lessons I have learned from the many mistakes I have made and packed it all into a practical online course to teach you how to perform a wedding.

The Perform a Wedding Course

So let me introduce you to Perform a Wedding: A Pastor’s Guide Step-by-step Guide from the First Meeting to the Big Day

In this course, I’ll walk you step-by-step through meeting with the couple for the first time, legal requirements, doing premarital counseling, planning the ceremony, running a rehearsal, performing the wedding, and more.

In addition, I have included my popular wedding sermons bundle, which are fully customizable wedding ceremony scripts that you can quickly take, make a few personal adjustments for each wedding, and then you are done. These will save you hours and hours of writing your ceremony. And these sermons are just a few of the included bonus tools to save you time and help you on the way. I use them all for myself, and I’m giving them to you.

So, if you are ready to learn more about how to Perform a Wedding, or even if you are a wedding officiant veteran who just wants to challenge yourself to keep getting better, this course won’t disappoint. And if for any reason you are not satisfied, I have a moneyback guarantee. 

If you want to get the course, go to propreacher.com/courses today and sign up. You can see more about the course there.

Also, I’m excited to let you know that I have partnered with Equip Lab with this course as well.

Equip lab is a course library for people serving in ministry, featuring a growing library of new courses every month from a variety of ministry experts. Inside, you can find courses on things like preaching, worship, children’s ministry, online ministry, and now my course on performing weddings too. So use the link in the description to check it out if you’re interested in subscribing.

Otherwise, if you want lifetime access to the course along with my risk-free 30-day money-back guarantee, head over to propreacher.com/courses

And go get the course right now while the price is good. I’m doing a special launch discount, but the sale ends exactly one week from now. So get it while you can on sale because I rarely, if ever, have sales.

And if you do get the course, my family and I thank you from the bottom of our hearts for supporting this ministry. I couldn’t continue making these kinds of resources to help pastors without you.

The free videos, articles, and podcast episodes I create are time-consuming and expensive to keep going. So thanks for your support in helping me make more paid and free resources for pastors around the world to grow in their influence and abilities to share the good news of Christ.