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If you are a Catholic priest or a Christian minister, would you like to receive referrals from our wedding officiant referral service? Will you represent the procedures and the outlook stated on this web site? Before you join, please read this entire website (especially the "Who We Are" and the "How It Works" sections), to make certain you are in general agreement with what we tell the couples they will be getting. If either you or the couple come together with a misconception, no one benefits.

We apologize if you are a rabbi or an imam, because we only refer progressive Christian officiants, although we honor your religions as equally honorable to ours. We also don't accept a fundamentalist Christian officiant who might use weddings to proselytize "over-religiously." And we don't accept someone whose only credentials are the purchase of an "ordination" over the Internet, but who has no serious background studies in contemporary spirituality. We don't put such officiants on our list. You may be a wonderful person, and you may be of good service to people who are looking for just what you offer, but that is not what we are offering on this web site. We are offering a specific niche of progressive Christianity. (Analogously, you might say that we sell Pontiacs, and not Buicks or Toyotas; nothing wrong with a Buick or a Toyota, but we just sell Pontiacs.)

If you have read over our web page and feel you are compatible with what we are offering couples, please continue on below.

Dear Officiant,

Thank you for your interest in serving couples who want to get married and are seeking an officiant through WeddingCeremony.org. Please tell us something about yourself (use the "Comments" section if the other boxes below are not sufficient), so that we can ascertain if you have the training, experience and perspective to provide the kind of progressive, open, loving, interesting, and spiritual ceremony we promise couples in this web page.

We do not promote a repressive and judgmental "faux-Christianity" - already too prevalent, and turning off so many people who come to us at this important time in their lives. Please notice that while we thank and honor you for your interest, we reserve the right - which right on our part you accept when you apply - to make selections for our wedding officiant referral service solely at our own discretion and judgment. We are very serious about presenting the face of Jesus as welcoming, compassionate, accepting, non-judgmental and loving to all. Thank you in advance for your understanding of this guiding principal, and accept our apologies if we occasionally are too careful.

By seeking to be referred to couples by WeddingCeremony.org, you are warranting to us that you are ordained or certified as a minister or priest by a bona fide, serious spiritual organization, that you are interested in being referred to couples seeking a progressive officiant to marry them, and that you agree with the substance of the principals enumerated in this web page. It is not sufficient just being "ordained" by a local church or by getting an "ordination" certificate over the Internet with no other spiritual studies. The best wedding officiants will generally have a breadth of knowledge and be recognized by a serious religious body. (By the way, if you have this breadth of knowledge and if you have a contemporary Christian outlook on life, but if you are not accredited by a bona fide religious body, then feel free to contact me, Jim Burch [703-818-8080], because there are alternatives available. )

To you all, many thanks for your dedication and good works.

Blessings,
Jim Burch
(Bishop, and director of WeddingCeremony.org)

Officiant Registration Form
First name / Last name: 
City / State / ZIP: 
Home phone number: 
Work phone number (if any): 
Mobile phone number (if any): 
Email address (required): 
Languages spoken (other than English): 
Denomination / experience (?) / Ministry Accreditation / Religious affiliation(s) / which church ordained or certified you / what seminary training might you have had / i.e., show that you haven?t just ordained yourself: 
Geographic area you are willing to serve as officiant: (Please state areas up to a few hours from your home; couples will not respond to vast-region-officiants.) 
Comments (if any): 
Upload Image: 
"Upload Image" is for you to send us a head shot to put next to your listing, should you wish. This is not required, though adding a photo is VERY valuable to you, as it will definitely enhance your chances to be selected. Only head shots will work (shoulders up); anything with a smaller face, and your image will be of no value. You will need to send a .jpg or .tif image electronically via email; we cannot accept mailed photos. While there is no cost to join our referral service or to be listed, there is a one-time fee of $25 to have your photo attached to your listing. You may pay this by credit card by clicking here, or you may send a check to "WeddingCeremony.org / 13419 Cavalier Woods Drive / Clifton, VA 20124. Payment should be received before photo may be added to your listing."
 

By filling in the above information and clicking "Submit" below, I am acknowledging and agreeing to the following:

  1. WeddingCeremony.org is a referral service only. It is up to me to enter into any agreement to provide a wedding service to the couple referred to me. WeddingCeremony.org is not responsible -- financially or otherwise -- for the conduct, timeliness, content, or any other aspect of me, of the couple, or of the wedding ceremony, as this is between me and the couple which may retain me.
  2. My sending back the information above is indication that I accept the general perspective of this site (nobody will agree with everything). I warrant and guarantee that I am ordained or certified by a bona fide religious organization as specified in the information above which I am submitting to WeddingCeremony.org. To pay for this overhead and marketing, I understand that I will pay WeddingCeremony.org a fee (subject to change by WeddingCeremony.org with notice in the future) within five days of booking each couple referred by WeddingCeremony.org. Whether or not I take a deposit from the couple, the fee to WeddingCeremony.org is due within five days of booking. I may pay by Internet, charging it on my credit card, by clicking on that section on the web page, and going to the secured credit card payment section. Or I may pay by mailing my check to: WeddingCeremony.org, 13419 Cavalier Woods Drive, Clifton, VA 20124 USA (made out to "WeddingCeremony.org."
  3. I understand that if I am not an ordained or certified by a bona fide religious organization, or if I do not provide good, spiritual, enriching wedding services to the couples referred to me by WeddingCeremony.org in general accordance with the principles of the web page WeddingCeremony.org, then I may, at the discretion of the management of WeddingCeremony.org, be dropped from the roster of referral officiants. Should this occur, or should I enter into a dispute with any party in regards to this referral service, I hold WeddingCeremony.org and its owners and staff completely harmless in any way, financially, legally or otherwise.
  4. I also understand that connecting progressive officiants with couples and their guests is only part of what this referral service will do. With the email addresses WeddingCeremony.org gathers, it will be connecting these couples to many new structures of spirituality. A few are already identified below, and more will follow. First, they will be registered in WeddingCeremony.org's spirituality email newsletter, with a prayer, a story and a quote or two every day (they can opt out of this email list, or of any other in the future, at any time, of course). In addition to this daily newsletter, these couples will be programmed to receive several emails over subsequent years ... everything from congratulating them on their marriage with some tips for keeping a marriage good, to congratulations on anniversaries, to reminding them to contact their marriage officiant if they have babies to be baptized, to sending out weekly home dinner liturgies for breaking the bread and discussing readings (just as the early church celebrated Eucharist), to attaching self-directed retreats and suggesting bed-and-breakfasts nearby to them for re-aligning their spiritual selves, to encouraging the designation of "chaplains" in existing organizations, and more.

    Please only hit "submit" ONCE. There will be a delay, but you will get a confirmation shortly.


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