I am a member of my church, we go every sunday..they asked for a $500.00 donation for the wedding..no problem..then we paid $200 for the organist/singer (who i adore)..still no problem... then we wanted to have the full choir (mine travels to Italy to sing for the pope, they are amazing)..that cost $600... im up to 1300...now while i have no problem with that AT ALL..im wondering if im STILL supposed to tip my officiant? or is that the donation? i think i have to tip him still...what am i supposed to do (we are very close with him) thanks!!
annie1207
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I dont think you are supposed to tip him...
CLMon7906
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don't tip. $500 is covering his services.
moonlitee
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at my church there was a separate fee for the preist and use for the church...so I would think the officiant needs a little something
chapel06
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I dont think you have to tip the officiant, but our church told us a $25 tip for the altar server is customary.
BernandRob
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You are not suppose to tip him, only the alter servers
MnM52607
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At my church, they told us exactly what our 'donation' was covering.
libby2595
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you are not to tip officiant. if you REALLY want to, you should make another donation to the church but not to him directly.
GabrielleandJohn
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I would invite him to the wedding. We are very close with my sisters priest. We invited him to the wedding and bought him a bottle of red wine.
kitty1224
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I would not tip
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Posted by chapel06
I dont think you have to tip the officiant, but our church told us a $25 tip for the altar server is customary.
This is what I was told as well. We are not giving our priest a tip.
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We tipped our officiant - this was aside from the church and organist donation/payments. We aren't parishioners of the church and the Deacon made every effort to make the ceremony as personal and special as he could having only met DH and I two times total beforehand. I felt he deserved it.
ewickens
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We're close with our officiant, but we're not tipping him - just $20 to the alter server.
tropicalbride07
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no tip!
Princess92406
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ahh you guys are awesome thank you so much!!
snydl40
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I wouldn't-that $500 should cover him.
betani
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Posted by I-can't-wait!!!!!!
Posted by chapel06
I dont think you have to tip the officiant, but our church told us a $25 tip for the altar server is customary.
This is what I was told as well. We are not giving our priest a tip.
