One of Our Fifty-States Permits a Friend to Officiate Wedding Ceremony
As a youngster I believed a couple were married by a priest, later I figured the couple marry one another with the priest/rabbi/minister as an official witness. Now I learn a friend can do it. Maybe more intimate that way? I will have to think about it.
I always laugh about the priest that officiated at our wedding. My fiancee did not like the authoritarian attitude of my parish priest and found one from a nearby parish. Sometime after our wedding was performed by the second priest, we found out he was gay and had served time in federal prison for smuggling aliens (our wedding took place in the border town of El Paso, Texas). A little ironic being my wife was Mexican and I was working as a Border Patrol Agent at the time. The priest was originally from Chile (not chile pepper).
This same priest who served time in prison wrote a book while he was incarcerated and I had a copy (misplaced-still waiting for it to show up). The book was a reference to all the jailhouse "slang". It must have had five hundred words that referenced the word "*****", pretty funny.
As a youngster I believed a couple were married by a priest, later I figured the couple marry one another with the priest/rabbi/minister as an official witness. Now I learn a friend can do it. Maybe more intimate that way? I will have to think about it.
I always laugh about the priest that officiated at our wedding. My fiancee did not like the authoritarian attitude of my parish priest and found one from a nearby parish. Sometime after our wedding was performed by the second priest, we found out he was gay and had served time in federal prison for smuggling aliens (our wedding took place in the border town of El Paso, Texas). A little ironic being my wife was Mexican and I was working as a Border Patrol Agent at the time. The priest was originally from Chile (not chile pepper).
This same priest who served time in prison wrote a book while he was incarcerated and I had a copy (misplaced-still waiting for it to show up). The book was a reference to all the jailhouse "slang". It must have had five hundred words that referenced the word "*****", pretty funny.