Most wedding officiants have probably been asked if they could officiate a wedding that was only a few days or a week or two away. With our troops being shipped out to Iraq with little advance notice this is not too infrequent. Is it possible to give them a spectacular ceremony with such short notice?

Of course it is.

To do it well you need some good interviewing skills and have a few ceremonies you can work with. You also need to be available to the couple and take their calls and give priority to their emails. If you use one standard ceremony all you have to do is fill in the names. However, if you do custom weddings you need to learn as much about the couple as you can in a very short period of time. Are they spiritual, religious or neither? Do they want a traditional wedding or something more contemporary? Do they have a relative or dear friend other than their attendants that they want to have participate in the ceremony by doing a reading or providing music