Remote online notarization is the proper path forward for digital closings and documents.
Human Connection Will Always Be King

To truly transform the real estate industry, we need to adopt technology with a fastidious focus on people. Contact-free service may be here to stay, but human connection and engagement remain essential. As 47% prepare to adjust and or rework processes to support longer work from home success, we cannot forget the importance of connection. We can and should provide customers with a more seamless experience, but the absence of reams of paper and in-person services does not mean that we cannot continue to offer a people-powered connection.

Technology enables deeper human expertise to service customers, and along with that comes better service and relationships. Free from rote tasks and redundancies, professionals can put their focus where it should be - on the people they serve.
The American Land Title Association, the Mortgage Bankers Association and the National Association of Realtors all endorse the legislation. With the need for social distancing to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, there must be options for consumers to close their transactions. The SECURE Notarization Act offers a safe alternative to help get transactions completed during this health crisis and beyond.

So, what are the duties of a Wedding Officiant? 
The main duty of a wedding officiant is to make your wedding official by fulfilling the requirements set forth by the marriage laws in the state in which you are being married. This includes witnessing the couple deliberately give their consent to the marriage and signing the marriage license.
Other duties of a wedding officiant can include:
Making sure the completed marriage license is properly filed with the State and Clerk of Court.
Writing and performing wedding ceremonies
Organizing the wedding party and leading the wedding rehearsal
Providing answers and consultations to the Wedding Part

Completing the marriage license
Completing the marriage license is the task that gives a wedding officiant the title “Officiant.” You are making a marriage “officially” legal. In order to be legally married and have the legal rights and privileges of marriage, you need to have a marriage license. The marriage license is issued by the state you live in. Once you have the marriage license it needs to be completed by a person who officially meets the requirements of the state to do so – usually an Ordained Minister, Judge, Justice of the Peace, or similar. Obtaining a marriage license just means you are allowed to marry. By completing the marriage license, you are choosing to actually marry and enter into the legal contract.

Being a Notary in Florida, South Carolina and Maine allows you to also be a Wedding Officiant. We also have several members who are ordained through the Universal Life Church and can perform weddings, baptisms, house blessings and funerals. 

Wedding Officiant selection is an important decision. We work with the couple to provide personalized vows, vow renewals, commitment ceremonies, beach weddings and LGBTQ (Same-Sex) weddings. We help to make your special day perfect. We are ALL INCLUSIVE. 904-333-7311

Civil Ceremonies and Legal Intent
Each state has requirements as to who can sign a marriage license and how they must legally “marry” the couple. Part of the requirements usually includes a wedding ceremony. How big or small your ceremony depends on what you want. If a religious leader is marrying you they may require you to perform a religious ceremony. A judge or a professional wedding officiant may simply ask you if you are sure you want to enter in the marriage and have you give your verbal consent. Traditionally, the answer is “I do.” But I always say “anything in the affirmative will work.” Sometimes the answer is “heck yeah!

Organizing the wedding party and leading the wedding rehearsal
Traditionally, if the wedding officiant is a minister and marrying you in a church they will lead your wedding rehearsal. It’s a church service so it’s already organized. It’s done the same way every time.

Non-religious wedding officiants also organize wedding parties and lead rehearsals pretty much the same way a minister of a church does. The only difference is they use their wedding ceremony script as a guide for what happens during the ceremony and practice that at the rehearsal.

There are many ways to organize a wedding procession. A good wedding officiant will take it as part of their duties to be flexible and work with the situation. Whatever it might be.

Couples having a large, expensive, formal wedding will often hire a wedding planner or day of event coordinator to organize everything, including the ceremony. In that case, the wedding officiant usually lets them lead the rehearsal and then just goes over their part of the ceremony once the wedding planner has everyone lined up and standing where they need to be.
Being a Notary in Florida, South Carolina and Maine allows you to also be a Wedding Officiant. We also have several members who are ordained through the Universal Life Church and can perform weddings, baptisms, house blessings and funerals.