Blog – Ten Things A Registrar Might Hate
Ten things a registrar might hate:
- Grooms who can’t dress properly – really fellas, you’re trying to impress the most beautiful girl in the room, even if it’s not your bride!
- Ill-fitting jackets – why can’t these bloomin’ tailors get it right, if in doubt, demand to get re-measured two weeks before your wedding day.
- Best men who are too loud – not all are obviously and they serve a purpose, but it’s not their day, all they have to do is make everyone laugh during their speech; not boss everyone about or try to do a stand-up routine during the ceremony to put the groom off.
- Fathers of the bride who have no idea what they are doing there – you’re giving your daughter away, it’s an honour, get with the programme.
- Poems – there are some that are just fantastic, delivered with tenderness and emotion; there are some however that sound like the person has only just picked up that scrappy bit of paper that they clench within their fists – The Owl and The Pussycat is not a new poem, you’ve read it before you can read it now!
- Signing the register – now if we say ‘sign on the dotted line’, during what part of that sentence do you hear ‘sign wherever you damn well please’? Just a bit of thought for three seconds would cut out a lot of paperwork back at the office.
- Coughers – oh they are all around and once they start it triggers some nervous tickle in everyone else’s throat – here’s a tip, ask everyone the day before if they feel a tickle, if the answer is yes, tell them to stay home.
- Photographers – I know you’ve charged an awful lot of money and want to get a decent shot, but really, barging the brides parents aside so you can stand on a chair for that all important arty angle is not setting the right image.
- Babies – they are oh so cute and lovely and dribbly, but would you take your dog to a wedding! (Yes, some would do that too!)
- The other registrar – there are two of us, we both attend and one of us writes while the other guides you through your ceremony; when they’re sitting there listening to them they’re not really thinking go on, trip up, you don’t say that as well as I do, you’re so boring, put some heart into it…etc…etc…etc. Really, they’re not thinking that!
Just ten things, I’ll compile a list of things Registrars like too, but I’ll have to think about that, not sure if there are ten things. Honestly, it’s not all bad, no wedding would be complete without at least one of the above, in fact, it wouldn’t feel like a wedding at all!
Zac Thraves is a registar and isn’t really that angry, honest.
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