Even when a couple is excited and ready to be married, wedding planning is often complicated and stressful, especially when two people are making a considerable financial investment to commemorate the day and make it a perfect and enjoyable experience for everyone involved and attending.  I understand that one way you may be considering cutting costs is by asking a "friend" to perform your ceremony. Friends are wonderful people to include in your ceremony, but ordination and licensing is not a casual issue, and the exchange of vows isn't something that should be improvised. I hear from multiple distraught couples every month whose "friend" has canceled at the last minute, for any number of reasons, or, even worse,  they've discovered the licensing portion was done incorrectly, meaning the legality of the ceremony is in jeopardy.

Don't let this happen to you, schedule me to officiate your wedding today!