{"id":498,"date":"2013-02-28T00:42:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T00:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/?p=498"},"modified":"2015-03-05T05:55:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T05:55:07","slug":"wedding-officiants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wedding-officiants\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops! I Think I Just Swallowed a Fly."},"content":{"rendered":"
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As we wedding officiants have found, anything can happen at a wedding.\u00a0 Sometimes it is funny, sometimes it is frustrating but it is almost always unpredictable and memorable.\u00a0 Whether it is a couple who decides to consummate their marriage vows before I depart their private elopement ceremony or a bride’s sister who gives a peep show to me throughout the wedding ceremony, anything goes.\u00a0 As a busy wedding officiant, I am proud to say that it is the very rare occasion that a hitch in the many marriage ceremonies I have the honor to officiate is caused by me.<\/p>\n

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One of those few glitches happened during a marriage ceremony that I officiated at a beautiful setting overlooking the ocean.\u00a0 The bride and groom’s wedding site was also a favored spot for a large swarm of flies.\u00a0 Everything went well for most of ceremony until I suddenly felt a foreign object in my mouth.\u00a0 That foreign object was a fly that was vibrating violently and quickly became lodged toward the back of my throat.\u00a0 I tried to “casually” cough it out but to no avail.\u00a0 My throat naturally constricted and for a few passages I am sure I sounded like an emphysema patient.\u00a0 But I carried on.<\/p>\n

After a short time the critter stopped moving but I could still feel it on the back of my tongue.\u00a0 I think I attempted to force the fly out but my body did not receive the proper message and inadvertently swallowed instead of coughing. Somewhere there are a number of wedding photographs with the officiant looking like he is about to vomit.\u00a0 Fortunately, my gag reflex is stronger than my cough reflex and I did nothing to make the couple’s wedding ceremony tragically memorable.\u00a0 Wedding officiants should be noticed but not too much.<\/p>\n

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As we wedding officiants have found, anything can happen at a wedding.\u00a0 Sometimes it is funny, sometimes it is frustrating but it is almost always unpredictable and memorable.\u00a0 Whether it is a couple who decides to consummate their marriage vows before I depart their private elopement ceremony or a bride’s sister who gives a peep …Click Here to Read More…<\/strong><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[129,128,21,158,30,32,89,88,12,163,122],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chris","tag-beach","tag-heart","tag-marriage","tag-marriage-ceremony","tag-officiant","tag-officiate","tag-palisades-park","tag-santa-monica","tag-wedding","tag-wedding-officiant","tag-wedding-officiants-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiantguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}