Hello all! We are working on finding an officiant for our wedding, and hoping to have a Christian pastor with a sense of humor to officiate and crack a joke or two. The problem is, there seems to be a disconnect between officiants and the church these days, and truthfully I don't want to pay $700 for someone to read a script... We are hoping to find religious pre-marital classes accompanied by a practicing pastor to officiate our wedding. Is this unrealistic? What is the proper way to go about approaching a church with this inquiry
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