Radio Blogs: Jason Officiates A Wedding!

Jason officiates a wedding and has decided to retire as a ordained minister after one wedding!

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Speaker 1 (01:05):
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Jason Brown with the Official Reverend Wedding Efficiant.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
How did it all go over the weekend? It was good,
so dear blog.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
So yes, Friday, I officiated my first wedding. It was
my boyfriend, Mike's nephew Alex and his now wife Sarah.
I was super honored that they let me officiate. I
had never done it before, so I had to get
you know, ordained. You know, it took the seven minutes
to put my credit card information on the website. I

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got my little.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Certificate process so I have to use. I think that
website you have to actually type in your name.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Doesn't autofil Yeah, it's yeah. But I brought it all
with me in my binder. I had my little certificate
and my little badge, my clergy badge that it gives
me my little licenses, the sample licenses. And so Friday
was the wedding, and it took me about three weeks
to like write the whole script just because I pulled

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from like different sources. Like there's like a standard script
you can use, but they wanted it to be a
little bit more funny, you know, no religious tones and
sort of like not so formal, like no the thou
like that type of stuff. So I had to like
basically write the whole thing, and it was a lot
of work.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
And I was cool.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
I was calm, I was collected, like right until we
like walked out, and then I got super nervous, like
like almost shaking nervous. And then I walked out like
sort of started my thing, and they were both crying,
so like I was trying to hold it together because
I'm very much like if I see someone else crying,
like I get uncomfortable, but also like when it's like

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happy tears, like then I start crying. And then I
look over at Mike and he's in the front row
and he's like sobbing, and I'm like like I'm like
trying to hold it together.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
But I think it was good. It went really fast.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
I think it ended up being the whole thing was
eleven minutes because I was afraid and wanted to be.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
People were so happy that you did that.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Like, y, yeah, I didn't want to go on like
a thirty minute like diet Tribe, you know, but yeah,
everyone was saying it was it was good and they
liked it, and Mike was like, you know, you need
to do more.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
I was like, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
I feel like I'm a one and done, Like it
was a lot of work and I just don't know,
like I don't ever want to take that script and
like use it again for someone else, like I would
have to rewrite the whole thing because then to me,
it like loses you know how special it is. So
but I'm really happy I did it and and very
happy they asked me to do it. But I'm also
happy it's over because it was it was a lot.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, good for you. Do you have a cocktail before?

Speaker 3 (03:34):
No, I did it and they offered me a beer,
but I'm like, no, like I just want to like,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
You wanted to do the moment, right spirit you exactly? Well? Yeah,
plus he was wearing a full cloak.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, it was giving Poblio you know, that white paper hat.
I thought that was a little aggressive, you know.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
But why not.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, it just swung by Leo's house. He gave it
to me a low for the weekend. But yeah, no,
it was it was. It was good, but I was
way more nervous than I thought I was going to be.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
But ye, it's like right before you I've done a
few of these. Right before you do it, you realize,
oh wow, like this is one of the most important
moments in some life, and for some reason, I'm in
the middle of it.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Like I know, and like this doesn't translate like everyone's like, oh, well,
you talk to you know, every many people ever seen that,
Like this is different, Like not only like is this
family and friends that are looking at you, but also
like this is hopefully their only day that they're going
to have like this, and so it's like I don't
want to say something or do something that's gonna like
screw it up, you know.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
So yeah, it's funny too that you make that point, Jason.
People all the time when it comes to public speaking,
whether it's at a charity event or something like that
that you do, you know, officiating a wedding for a
friend or whatever it is, or giving you know, speaking
in front of clients or whatever it's, people are like, oh,
this is not this must not be a big deal
for you, because you know, you talk to thirteen people
every day, and the truth is it's just it's so

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wildly different. Because, as far as I'm concerned, I'm just
in your talking to my little friends, I can't see
anybody who's listening or your reactions. But when you're in
front of everybody, even if it's you know, the same
thirteen people, now I get your live reaction to whatever
I said. Like, as far as I'm concerned, I'm Chris
rock up in here. But then you know, when I'm talking,

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you know, in front of a group, and if I
don't get the feedback that I was hoping for at
the time that I was hoping for it, and then
it's completely deflating.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Oh yeah, and I had planted laughs.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
I was like, mom, you laugh no matter what, if
it's funny or not, if you think it should be
a joke, like you laugh. So but people laugh to
my little funny, my little funny times. So yeah, I
think it went well.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Good for you, Good for you. That's always my advice.
I've given it before.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
But my advice for if you're doing something like that,
or if you give me a wedding speech or whatever, like,
don't set yourself up with the line or the several
lines that you are certain are going to crush it
because especially upfront, because if you go up there and
you say something that you're anticipating, you know, sort of
thriving from and getting the energy and like breaking the
ice with a joke and then nobody laughs that, it

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is a painful remainder of whatever.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
You have to do is to happen.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, and my other advice is that and you didn't
do this, of course, but wedding, officiating a wedding, or
giving a speech at a wedding is not an opportunity
to roast someone, Like it is not the roast of
that person. Like, that's not I can't tell you how
many weddings I've been to. If people I went to
college with and somebody stands up there and goes, oh, man,
one night I was out with, you know, and it's like,

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oh god, really now, like not that's the person's parents
are there? You know, It's like, who did I just
let my daughter marry and you got this idiot up
there talking about.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, yeah, it's not that it is that the time
or place for that.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
No, don't do it. Don't do it, or I'll do
my blog about society later. Because we got to go
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