Becoming ordained?
 

Okay, as most of you know I'm engaged and with that step wedding planning just seems has to happen (why, I have no idea :p) And one of the aspects of the ceremony that my fiance and I were really debating about was the pastor. See, as long as it's someone I know and am religiously fine with I'm okay (former pastor etc), with Dusty he's very non-religious and wants a judge (or the equivalent), you get the idea.

Well, the other night I had seen on a wedding show of how a friend became ordained online to see of the wedding and "marry them". Dusty and I agreed to have a sorority sister (who also is a best friend) of mine to do it if she could and would want to.

So....

Here are the questions:
- Where is a reliable/legal online (hopefully) source we can get the certification?
- She is also Catholic (a big one :p), and I am psudo-christian and he is agnostic, would there be any conflicts with her church?
- How much would it cost to have this all done? (since it's out wedding, we're paying)

I'll probably have more questions later :p

--PS--Sorry if some of my statements are hard to understand...I could never quite get the hang of getting what's in my head on paper correctly ;)

You can get bogus college degrees on line, why not get ordained.

I really doubt the legality of this.

On the other hand, a guy in my chapter once convinced a particularly, well, dumb girl that a fraternity president could perform marriages. That last about an hour.

Go with the judge.

Oh man.

Thats just beautiful.

You can hire a justice of the peace if you don't want a religious ceremony. I have no idea about internet ordained pastors.

DA, you cracked me up.

Be Ordained In Three Minutes! Universal Life Church

All of my RAs in Alaska got ordained to perform marriages. They had their certificates on their doors. However, Alaska law states any citizen may perform ONE wedding, so just fly there and get a hunting guide to do it.

My vote goes towards a captain of a ship. Ship captains are allowed to perform marriages, right?

It would be so awesome if you had a pirate minister.

I have a co-worker who got ordained through the Universal Life Church and he said that he has to apply for something through the state to be able to perform marriages... But, they do always say "By the powers vested to me by the state of Blah Blah Blah, I now pronounce you husband and wife".

you could always go to the courthouse and have a justice of the peace do the legal part there then have the sorority sister preside at the wedding ceremony. After all- it's not the wedding service that makes one legally married, but the paperwork filed with the county.

If she's Catholic her church would not like it very much if she became ordained in another religion...and since women can't be ordained Catholic (and the Catholic church is good at kicking people out that screw up) I'd say that's not a very good idea.

I'm ordained but I forget where, LOL. In Colorado, though, I don't even think you have to be anything special to marry people --- anyone can do it. They also have common law marriage which is so weird. When I hear "common law wife" I still picture some big ol' woman in a housedress standing outside the trailer with a 40 and a cigarette, screaming at the kids. That's probably rude, but still.

In some places mayors can marry people. My former boss was the mayor of a town and did perform a marriage or two

Yeah I don't really see why she'd be willing to do that.

I also wouldn't want to futz around with the legality of my marriage - find a judge or a non-demoninational pastor or something.

I hesitate to even get into this, but I'm an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church, USA, and in theory I can perform certain sacraments IF there is no ordained minister available.

I'm not sure that marriage falls into that category, but I don't know why it wouldn't.

No, I really don't want to perform the ceremony.

I know someone who was married on a ship by the captain. A few months later, the couple found out the marriage was not legal. They were so relieved!

Viva Las Vegas?

*shrugs*