I've been sitting here for a few days on and off trying to find someone close to my town to marry my FH and I. Everyone is either a woman, wants us to go to marriage counciling (sp?), or is way too expensive. We can't have a woman marry us because my FH's family goes to the church of Christ and they don't believe women should be able to be the minister, which also means that they don't want us to be married by a woman. Neither one of us want to go thru marriage counciling before getting married. And I'm just going nuts between this and one of my maids of honor and my mother and everything is just driving me up a wall. Right now I think it would have been so much easier to just go to Vegas.

It will be ok.. take a deep breath, forget about it for a few minutes (hours).. and it will turn out just fine. I guess there is no way of compermising to having a woman marry you. Someone can do a thing online that allows them to perforom up to 3 weddings. They don't have to be any kind of pearcher or minister or anything. 
Where abouts are you? Maybe just call every church there is around.. You will find someone somewhere.
I'm no help, I'm sorry. Things will get better after something seems to be the worst.

We are all here for you to vent to, at least that makes ya feel a tad bit better. :-D

What area are u in? It took me forever to find an officiant but I finally found one through a company called "A Beautiful Affair Of The Heart" (see WW reviews) ... It's based out of NJ but they have officiants everywhere. We found our officiant who I thought was a little pricey but is actually around average price for our area....

http://www.abeautifulaffairoftheheart.com/nj-ww.shtml

Here's the website... they have both men and women... I know the man marrying us was an important part of our wedding as well.

Thanks, we are calling the churches around us but they want us to go through counciling or be a member of their church before they'll marry us. The thing that really sucks is that my FH's uncle is a minister and even he wants us to sit down with him and go through marriage counciling. I've already gotten to the point of just not doing anything with the planning for a few days. Then gotten back and realized I have so much left to do.

here is an officent, he's on WW.. but this is his myspace he has other contact info there.. I see you're in oh so he says he travels.. something you can look into..
it stinks that everyone and anyone are wanting for marriage counciling... Im sure someone is out there..
hang in there

http://www.myspace.com/weddingsbywayne

you can also have a notary perfom your ceremony. That is what I am doing. She is a co worker of mine and she performs alot of ceremonies.

You don't want a woman to marry you??

Thanks for the link mayo! I'll check it out.

KLD, I wouldn't mind if a woman married us. It's my FH and his family who doesn't want us to be married by a woman. They go to the Church of Christ and they believe that women shouldn't be ministers. Which also means that they believe that if a woman performed a wedding ceremony it "wouldn't count" in God's eyes. I'm not comletely sure on the details of that, I just kinda didn't say anything after that part of our conversation. I fully believe a woman can do almost anything a man can and that their views are extremely sexist.

You live in Columbus, Ohio?? Check out PW Ohio Bride Board, because a girl awhile ago was looking for an officiant, and I posted several links to officiants.

Under heading, where can I find a pastor.

Did you check out the link that I posted-- if you  contact them they will tell you who they have in Ohio that they can hook you up with!