Martin R. Lucas
Minister ID: 179542-92598 View Ordination Certificate
Martin lives in Indiana and was ordained by American Marriage Ministries on March 25th, 2013.
I officiated my first wedding in 2011. As a practicing attorney, I was appointed judge pro tem by the circuit court. It went well; with my courtroom experience I am comfortable with public speaking, and am competent to ensure all the paperwork is done completely and accurately. Since then, I've officiated four additional weddings. I feel this service fills a need for people who are qualified to marry, wish to marry, and desire a ceremony with both spiritual love and legal accuracy, but free of excessive bureaucracy. I believe marriage is primarily a personal decision of two adults in which they declare in public their intention to unify their lives, their loves, their physical and their spiritual beings, and to create a family to foster truth and beauty in the paradise called Earth. I possess no knowledge superior to that of the bride and groom, and therefore in my view my duties are restricted to ensuring they are adults of sound minds, acting freely, voluntarily and intelligently and truly wish to become a married couple, and hence, to the community and under the law, a family. Beyond that, I try to make the experience beautiful and meaningful ritual celebration centered around the bride and groom as individuals. I try to make it spiritually engaging, delightful, memorable and of appropriate duration (usually, brief).
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