W E D D I N G C E R E M O N Y

Dear Officiant, Thank you for your interest in serving couples who want to get married and are seeking an officiant through WeddingCeremony.org, an officiant-to-couple referral service. 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 are not interested in promoting more of a repressive and judgmental “faux-Christianity” – already too prevalent!) 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. We will always listen and accept others’ ability to grow in spirit. 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. 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:
Address (for WeddingCeremony.org records only):
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):

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 completely). I warrant and guarantee that I am ordained or certified by a bona fide religious organization as specified in the information above I am submitting to WeddingCeremony.org.

3) To pay for this overhead and marketing, I understand that I will pay WeddingCeremony.org a fee of $35 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 going to the secured credit card payment section of the "Ministers/Priests of www.weddingceremony.org. Or I may pay by check by mail to: WeddingCeremony.org, 13419 Cavalier Woods Drive, Clifton, VA 20124 USA.

4) 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.

5) I also understand that connecting progressive officiants with couples and their guests is only half of what this referral service will do. With the email addresses WeddingCeremony.org will gather, it will be connecting these couples to many new structures of spirituality, and a certain limited number of items which the couple may purchase at their discretion, so that the spiritual work of the organization may be enhanced. A few are already identified below, and more will follow.

First, they will be registered in WeddingCeremony.org's daily 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 the next two 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 much more.

Officiant Registration Form