Alberta! Wedding officiant

Thats amazing information to share and know for that province. It would be great id Ontario has one too.

View quoted message That's great! Whatever works for you I just know it is a bit of a cost saving measure and a sentimental thing so wanted to make sure everyone knows!

View quoted message Ours really isn't much of a religious service. My FH has only been to church once with us (& that's cause his mom made the entire family go after she lost her husband). But the pastor we chose is super nice & isn't too formal

View quoted message Makes sense! I know that a condition for this one is that it can not be a religious service, so it might be easier to stick with your pastor!

View quoted message That's great. I'm tempted, but since the church is our back up for poor weather (outside wedding), it just makes sense to keep our pastor as our officiant

View quoted message Good to know! I'm glad ours got approved lol. We are getting married april 25

I too am thrilled about this! And it's good to know that the applications are being processed so quickly!

However this is a pilot program which will be re-evaluated in the spring (so it may be ended or changes may be made to it). I spoke with service Alberta about this, and they said so long as the application is approved before the program is re-evaluated they cannot revoke the appointment. So for anyone who is interested in doing this and getting married in the summer or later, apply soon to be sure.

View quoted message Yah we paid for our officiant as well because when we looked they weren't allowing it and we won't get the money back but are still having his best friend do it, more sentimental for us and still out the same amount of money

I'm happy about this, although I wish I knew last year, I booked my officiant last year (wedding in July), but I really wanted my friend to do it. Everything I read said she wouldn't be able to, but now they changed them & I could've had her be the one.