Last wedding you attended: who did the ceremony?

I haven’t been to a wedding in a decade now, but most of my friends and family are Catholic, so most weddings I’ve attended were performed by priests. I’ve seen a few performed by Protestant ministers, one performed by a Jewish cantor, and just one performed by a justice of the peace.

Now, I do know several people who were married by a JP, but most of those were private ceremonies I wasn’t invited to.

The last one I went to was right after gay marriage went legal in SC - they were churning them out at the Unitarian… I guess meeting house? I’m not sure what you call them. Like I almost missed this one because it started a little early, and somebody else actually did miss it and caught the next people.

It was still lovely, I cried.

Before that, I guess it’d be my own wedding, which was half my parents’ minister (although we asked her to keep the God to a minimum) and half a magistrate friend, and the magistrate signed the paperwork.

The last wedding I went to was officiated by a friend of the groom who got his license the day before the wedding. It was not religious.

The last wedding I went to was my best friend’s about a decade ago. It was held in a Lutheran church, and the pastor officiated.

Since both my father and I attended, I’m surprised the building didn’t fall down. I’m an atheist; my dad belongs to the United Church of 6 AM Sunday Tee Time Followed By Beer At the Clubhouse. :cool:

My cousin got married a little over a year ago in a Catholic church, by a priest.

I cheated and voted based off of the next-to-last wedding I attended, because that had a much more interesting answer. My brother got married in August in Hawaii, and it was presided over by a priest of the local Hawaiian faith.

The last wedding I attended was a Catholic wedding. I attended one more a couple of years ago and I’m not even sure who presided over the wedding, but I suspect that it may have been a non-religious official.

The last wedding I attended was my own. Mrs. L.A. is Christian. I’m not. So she got a non-religious officiant.

My daughter-in-law’s father married them. He is a Christian minister. What was unusual is that my daughter-in-law is married to my daughter. I guess his denomination doesn’t have a problem with gay marriages.

Two months ago, I was at the wedding of my college girlfriend. She had, years after we’d dated, come out of the closet, and it’s now legal for her and her partner to marry. They were married in a Catholic church, though one which has gone “independent” in recent years, and (obviously) isn’t following Rome’s edict on SSM. So, the wedding was conducted by a priest.

In dozens of weddings I’ve attended in my life, I’ve only ever been to one that wasn’t officiated by a member of the clergy – two atheist friends of mine married 30+ years ago, in his parents’ backyard, and they had a judge who came out to run the ceremony.

An ordained minister and friend of mine. The wedding was at a winery near Eugene.

Went to a wedding this summer, was done by a Catholic priest.

I have yet to attend a wedding that did not have a Christian officiant. Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve been to a wedding that wasn’t in a church. I was invited to one, and the officiant would likely have been of a different religion, but I was unable to attend.

Most people I knew who were not Christian moved away from here after high school and we lost touch, and I didn’t really reconnect with any of them until after they were already married–mostly via Facebook.

When I say I live in the Bible Belt, I mean it.

Hmm, recent weddings… come to think of it I seldom attend weddings. In reverse chronological the last four taking me back over a decade:

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[li]Catholic clergy, at church, with full Mass shebang and musicians and singers of the San Juan Symphony and Conservatory and a dress that had a dramatic history going back half a century, all donated voluntarily.[/li]
[li]Ordained minister, affiliation unknown to me. Not at church but at the Toronto Four Seasons Penthouse Room overlooking the city, not a religious rite per se – a SSM, BTW (Alas did not last… and it was one expensive-arsed shindig for all concerned, of course they had to get all fabulous about it).[/li]
[li]Christian Minister, at U of Kentucky Alumni House. Mixed Catholic/Church of Christ marriage and the wedding party contained a wide diversity of faiths or lack thereof or parody thereof. At the part where the minister was talking about how the wife is to submit to the husband, people eight rows back could just feel Bride, MD’s, eyebrows going up and Groom, Esq., sweating.[/li]
[li]Another international one, in accordance to Guatemalan law “performed” twice, the first day a civil ceremony before a Notary, then the next one a Catholic church wedding (that country separates civil and sacramental marriage) at the Marist Brothers’ regional HQ chapel.[/li][/ul]

I notice I tend to attend more weddings where I have to travel than in my own back yard.

I said other. When my daughter got married, they couldn’t find an officiant who knew German, but they got some official clergy who agreed to not mention God.
Unlike Donald Sutherland in Little Murders he kept his word.

I didn’t vote because the category wasn’t included. My daughter was married ten years by a lady from some organization that was not Ethical Culture but was similar to that. Godless, but kind of spiritual. My son was married, 23 years ago today, by a Unitarian minister. My other son was married 19 years ago by some sort of Protestant minister who happend to have been a good college friend of both him and his wife.

Just for the record: we are all Jewish atheists and the first two married fallen away Catholics, while the third is married to a more-or-less believing Presbyterian.

They are the last three weddings I’ve been to.

Last one I went to was led by a non-religious officiant. He was a long-time friend of the groom; both are triathletes, and the used “The Triathlete’s Training Bible” as the Bible for the service. The sermon was from Star Wars.

The last one was six months ago, the daughter of my wife’s coworkers, in a Catholic church. The officiant was the diocese bishop, which is really unusual. The bride spent a summer internship working at his office, and the family was “very” devout - tithing, kids at parochial school, sending the other pregnant daughter away for six months to visit “relatives”, the whole shebang. The bishop seemed to enjoy doing a wedding ceremony, a rarity for him.

Jewish woman, Christian man. A rabbi and an Episcopal priest did the ceremony together.

My own wedding in March. Carried out by the local registrar, so a government official.

I go to a lot of weddings. I’ve probably been to 30 of them in my 36 years.

It just occurred to me that the last one I went to was the first that was done by a layperson! My friend was married by a judge.

The other ones haven’t all been in churches but they were all performed by a minister or priest (or in the cast of my brother’s wedding - both!)