So far this year, taking into the trend of the first quarter of 2006, if the current frequency of marriages that I perform continues, I'm on a path to unite 40 couples by the time all is said and done! Which means a doubling of my business!

Here's a sample of how it has been. Yesterday I was scheduled for a wedding that had been booked about two months ago. I get a call at 11 am with a frantic sounding bride wanting to know if I could marry her and her fiancé that day, after my scheduled wedding. The couple is in the naval area of the state and so in a matter of a couple of hours we figure out the when and where of how to do the ceremony.

When we get home from that spontaneous wedding there are two messages on the machine from two different people inquiring about weddings! One wants to marry this week, the other seemed to want to schedule ahead.

What's really good is that my phone book ad (the one I shelled out $800 for) is starting to pay for itself. Plus, the business cards I print on my own and give to the courthouse are also my next best way of getting business. The website is still my best source of advertisement.

The first three months of the year are typically my slowest times for weddings, but so far I'm busy. I think ahead to my busy months of July, September, and October, and think how much more busier those months are going to be, and my head swims! It may be a good thing that Pooky is also ordained and can marry people, too, because we might need to conduct multiple weddings at multiple times.

I've done three weddings in one day, and think I could possibly manage about 4-5, depending on where they are geographically. I have to be well prepared for multiple couples and I think I've gotten a system of keeping who's who so I don't slip up and call people by the wrong names.

As of today, Pooky and I have married 59 couples. Does this make us polygamists?

Small world syndrome: At the wedding I performed this past Friday, one of the guests attending was a gal I had married during my first year of being in business. I have to confirm it, but I think the new violinist who joined orchestra last week is one of the first people I married!