Wedding Drama Saga: Part 2

Booking the Officiant

   I come from an area with a small church.  We have maybe two ministers that are able to officiate weddings - the pastor and the music minister.  Our pastor was going to be leaving the state permanently for family reasons and the music minister would have to 'hold down the fort' until a new pastor was instated.   Given that Mr. Adorable and I were getting married on a Sunday, we could not ask for the music minister to officiate and leave his post at the church. 
   At this time we were living about an hour and a half south of my church.  Mr. Adorable and I decided to find a local church we could go to so we wouldn't have to drive 1.5 hours every week (money is very tight and we are rationing our gas usage). We found our church's sister church and we temporarily made them our church home.  After a few weeks of settling in we decided to ask if they could officiate our wedding.   Lo and behold! They, too, did not have enough people to allow one minister to officiate!  So our new pastor got in touch with one of his friends and Mr.Adorable and I played phone tag with him for a while.
     After much stress my mom calls with good news - our old church found a new pastor and he was going to allow the music minister to officiate our wedding!!!  Yay!  So that part of the quest is complete.

Through this process I have had many people asking "why did you not get a notary for the wedding?"  This is because both Mr. Adorable and I are believing Christians.  We believe that a vow being made to God (that is how it is in our case) should be officiated by someone we trust that also believes in God.  If we went through the state then we could end up with an atheist or someone of another belief system and that just wouldn't make sense for us.

Part 2.2 - Deltona's request to renew her vows
    Being highly stressed from what was currently going down with the bridesmaids dresses and the constant contradictions at every turn from Deltona, Deltona sends me a text message asking if she could, essentially, "piggy-back" on my wedding and make this "her" day as well as my own.  She wanted to renew her vows since she "did not get a wedding".  OMGosh!  Was this REALLY happening????? Then she offered to reimburse me for 1/2 of the officiant cost which was almost insulting since we had already booked everything and common sense would tell anyone that we had already dumped a good amount of money into this.  It was insulting.
     A few hours later and not having responded at all to the text message I get another text stating, "Never mind.  Kermit said we would do our own thing on our anniversary."  Thank God for brothers.

To be continued in Part 3!