How much do you pay the officiant??

[chrisandtrish]

My officiant is my grandmother's pastor and I asked him how much and he didn't reply. I asked my grandmother she said to call when he on vacation and ask a lady in the office.

Well of course with the other milions of things i got to do i forgot so I thought i would ask here.....

It is a baptist church and we are having a simple ceremony... what do you think?
:confused:

[maeberha]

our officiant was my husbands' dad, so we didn't pay :)

when i was researching churches, it was around $120-150

[MrsWarren2B]

We just gave him $50 since they didn't request anything. When DH gave him the check, he said that we didn't have to give anything, but he did accept the money.

[karentinks]

We paid $300, but that included a custom ceremony, not just the officiating.

[Denisa]

We are paying $425 for everything. Rental of the entire church, the pastor, the sound guy, and janitor fee. We are also not members of the church so that's what made it so expensive.

[Christina0902]

this might be a stupid question...but what is an officiant?????

[clorigroh]

this might be a stupid question...but what is an officiant?????

the person that performs the ceremony

[clorigroh]

Our church charges a $200 donation and we will probably give the priest some money, but not sure how much. My church wanted $350, which I thought was a lot, but we were going with Steve's chuch anyway.

[murphy23]

We're going to end up paying $300 I believe...and that includes the reherrsal

[SoonToBeWed]

We paid $250 for ours. He used to be our pastor at our church but retired a few years after we started dating.

[Christina0902]

so it's a priest???

[clorigroh]

yeah if you are getting married in the Catholic church. If not it's called an officiant because not all marriages are religious- or it could be a minister/rabbi, etc

[kobfield2007]

so it's a priest???

It can be, but it can also be a judge, etc...

[kobfield2007]

For our church, we are paying $375 for the church, priest, and music director, then $15 for each of the 3 altar boys. So $420 total!

[kobfield2007]

Basically the officiant is any person (w/ or w/o a title) that will be pronouncing you husband and wife and who's name will be on the license with yours and your hubby's.