5 Steps on How To End A Wedding Ceremony As A Wedding Officiant (with a Grand Finale!)

Are you a wedding officiant wondering how to end a wedding ceremony? The very best ending to a wedding ceremony is a grand finale. Everyone is on their feet. The officiant presents the couple. The music starts. The couple head up the aisle to a symphony of overjoyed laughter and raucous cheers from their guests! But that... is not just going to happen on its own! There’s a perfect formula for lining up the moving parts. The officiant needs to order things in a specific way to make the grand finale happen. And if you don’t make it happen? Well, it’s gonna be… awkward. And I’ve seen it in way too many scripts from inexperienced and first-time officiants. See, a lot of officiants (and couples!) think the ceremony ends when the couple kiss. That looks good on paper, but it won’t give your couple the big finish! And you only realize that when you really stop and think through the details. Like: okay, when they kiss and the guests applaud, what happens next? The couple are going to eventually stop kissing (“um… they are, aren’t they?”), and the guests will eventually stop clapping. And if the officiant has stepped away as they should, then there’s this… lull. You may even hear a cricket or two. Then the best-case scenario is that the DJ or musician starts the recessional song. But as the song kicks on, then the couple has to turn and head up the aisle. But - wait! If there’s a bride, they need to grab their bouquet from someone. And then… do the guests just start spontaneously start clapping again? Probably not. It’ll be a staggered smattering at best. Some nervous laughter. And lots of cringey pauses. In short: a less-than-best ending. When it’s done this way, there’s way too much left to chance and assumption. As wedding officiants, we need to claim our directive role for the very best outcomes. So here’s how to end the wedding ceremony with a rousing grand finale. The Grand Finale Formula will finish it with a bang and leave everyone with huge smiles on their faces heading into cocktail hour. For more detail, head to the companion blogpost: https://unboringwedding.com/grand-fin... ⭐️⭐️👉🏻 Grab my free, quickstart, instant-access 5-Step Wedding Ceremony Guide here: https://unboringwedding.com/guide 👈🏻⭐️⭐️ 'Want access to Unboring!Wedding's signature course Unboring!Wedding Academy that includes: ✅ the world's most powerful ceremony building software Officiantly©, ✅ automates the entire 9-step process, ✅ writes your couple's love story for you in seconds, ✅ a community of 750 engaged members on the private Facebook group, ✅ direct access to Mark, ✅ loads of scripting and sample bonuses...? You get all of that as a full member right here: 👉 https://www.unboringweddingacademy.com 📞 Emergency Wedding Script and Ceremony Coaching: https://www.unboringweddingacademy.co... 📈 Full Course on How To Run an Officiating Business: https://www.unboringweddingacademy.co... 🖥 "Done-For-You" Pro Website For Officiants and Celebrants: https://www.unboringweddingacademy.co... 💒 Officiating Service: https://unboringwedding.com ✍🏻 Story Writing Service: https://unboringwedding.com/custom-lo... 📝 Ceremony Writing Service: https://unboringwedding.com/ceremony-... 🎙 The Unboring!Wedding Day Love Stories Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/u... FB: Unboring!Wedding on Facebook:   / unboringwedding   IG: Unboring!Wedding on Instagram:   / unboringwedding   Background Photos: Sherry Brown Photography Tyler Tindale Photography Scarlet O’Neill | Photography Olive Photography Shannon-May Pringle Photography Luminous Weddings Christine Hewitt Weddings Magnolia Studios Hillary Deane Photography #WeddingOfficiant #GrandFinale #HowTo