Culture City Informer How Can I Become a Marriage Officiant?

dearest friends on their special day and aggressively steal their thunder, ideally while wearing some sort of statement-making robe. It’s the gig of a lifetime! You have everyone’s undivided attention and are very unlikely to get heckled. Plus, if you start to rap mid-ceremony, everyone will just assume the couple asked you to and so legally cannot stop you!

by Stacey McLachlan

Here’s the funny thing about weddings in B.C.: while you can ask anyone you want to marry you (kissykissy-wise), you actually can’t ask anyone you want to marry you (filling-out-thepaperwork-wise).

This distinction is downright infuriating for someone who would love nothing more than to have the opportunity to join my

But, sadly, the B.C. Vital Statistics Agency reserves this honour for a lucky and select few attention hogs. Unlike in the U.S., where a shocking 94 percent of sitcom sidekicks (source needed) are authorized to perform legal weddings, BCers can’t just hop onto Officiants2nite.biz and impulse-buy an officiant’s licence like it was an irresistibly priced pair of “swim culottes” from a drop-shipping fast-fashion brand.

Instead, a board of shadowy figures (assistant regional managers) evaluates applicants for rare commissioner job openings,