Monday, February 13, 2012

Good Morning

Posted by Reverend Ref + at 12:43 PM

The parish phone rang at 9:02 this morning. My secretary hadn't yet come in, so I answered it.

"Good morning. I was wondering if you would be able to perform a wedding for me and my fiance on Saturday, the 25th. We've got our marriage license and are ready to go."

I took down his number and he's now in a holding pattern until I figure out a polite way to say, "No."

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4 comments:

Lady Anne | 6:05 PM, February 13, 2012  

Well, obviously they're not planning a large wedding - no invitations, etc. You do wonder why people want a church wedding (or a baptism) when they have no intention of ever setting foot in a church again. You could always tell the poor man the Episcopal Church doesn't do weddings during Lent, I suppose.

Reverend Ref + | 6:33 PM, February 13, 2012  

I called him back.

"I need 30 days before any marriage. There's a six-session program that everybody is required to follow before a marriage. We don't do weddings in Lent."

"The reason for the rush is that I've been diagnosed with mouth cancer, and we were looking for a way to make this happen sooner rather than later."

They're coming in tomorrow.

Lady Anne | 9:29 PM, February 13, 2012  

Oh, dear! Well, there's an exception to any rule. I hope he recovers, poor soul.

Blogging Chaplain | 8:24 AM, February 14, 2012  

And the first question to ask is, "What would marriage change for you right now?" I get the whole, "Well, he's deploying in three days so we HAVE to get married RIGHT NOW," thing a lot. So I usually ask, "Okay, what would change for the two of you being married and living through this deployment versus not?" Just to see where that leads.

I'm not sure if that applies, but it might be a starting point.

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