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How to Choose a Wedding Officiant

Will the wedding officiant accommodate our personal preferences?

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Bill Cochran
Say "I Do" Your Way
www.sayidoyourway.com  
301-926-2671

Rev. Bill Cochran is the owner of Say “I Do” Your Way. In this company, Bill & his wife Joyce offer their services as wedding officiants and pre-marriage Counselors.  They have been working with couples for the past thirty-nine years and have conducted hundreds of weddings. Bill also serves as a trainer for Life Innovations certification of counselors and clergy in the Metro Washington, DC/Maryland/Virginia area. His extensive background in marriage and pre-marriage counseling has prepared hundreds of couples to navigate the tough issues of relationship building.

Over the years, Bill & Joyce have built an exciting and fulfilling marriage relationship. Thus they see weddings as the greatest event in life. Helping other couples to share the same positive experience they enjoy in marriage is their primary goal. They LOVE weddings!

Will the wedding officiant accommodate our personal preferences?

Reverend Bill Cochran of Say “I Do” Your Way gives pointers on how to choose an officiant for your wedding ceremony. His forty years of officiating weddings will heolp you feel confident as you prepare to interview your prospective officiant.

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Host: Will the wedding officiant accommodate our personal preferences?

Bill Cochran: My answer to that is, yes. However, you need to be aware that if you are working with your religious leader, say, a pastor, priest, rabbi or whatever, they probably will bring in a template that has their traditional kind of ceremony in it. In those, it's more difficult to make it real personal, but many of them do the best they can to try to accommodate that.

In the settings in which I work which is outside of the religious organizations I think it's incumbent upon all of us wedding officiants to be as open to your ideas as possible. Now of course, we are personalities ourselves and different ones vary and so you want to find one if it's really important to you, you want to find one who is really open to kind of pushing you to think outside the box and to look at this as your unique and special day. To make sure that you have thought of everything that will make your wedding ceremony really, really special.

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