Best Woman at a Garden Wedding?
It's Saturday morning and another question before lunch, this one concerning a female best man, shakespeare, a church, and a garden. Sounds like a joke I heard once...
Jonathan writes... "I'm trying to find out a bit of information regarding my ceremony venue and best man. Firstly, my fiancée and I want to have a religious ceremony but we are struggling with where. I think we fall under the Holy Trinity parish (this isn't very clear) in Stratford upon Avon but the church is always very busy with tourists (due to good old Shakespeare), is it possible to have a religious ceremony performed in a local garden by a close family friend who is a Vicar? Also my best friend happens to be my sister and I do not have a close friend who is male, is it ok to have her as my best man/woman?
Thank you ever so much for you help
Jonathan
Jonathan - we'll ask the Resident Reverend Jan Harney if she can answer you questions, although I have a question for you myself! with your best man being your sister, what will you do for a stag do?
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I wrote this in a sentence on my cool and, it goes something like this.net
You’ve done the easy bit. You’ve both agreed that you want to spend the rest of your lives together; you’ve announced the news to your parents, and shown off the engagement ring to all those admiring friends and colleagues. Once the initial euphoria has faded a little, it will start to dawn on you that quite a lot of planning is needed in order to get from ‘I will’ to ‘I do’
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Hi Jonathan
I love your questions and I'll answer them one by one.
Firstly to find out your parish you can simply enter your postcode in the main Church of England website.
If you still don't want to marry in your local church you might consider having a simple civil ceremony first (in order to do the legal bits - the registers...)Then your chosen Vicar could organise a lovely blessing service for you in your garden, which can be very much like the wedding ceremony. It's just the wording that is different.
It's perfectly fine to have your sister as your 'best man' and I'm sure she'll do an admirable job. But beware -she will know lots of things about you that a best mate wouldn't and you never know what she'll put in the speech!
Have a fabulous day.
Jan