Ralph & Karen Fishburn Resume

• Name Ralph & Karen Fishburn

• Title Wedding Officiants

• Experience 4

• Biography

  REVEREND RALPH

  Ralph began his wedding career at the age of five when he was drafted to be the Ring Bearer at the wedding of a family friend. A few years later, when Ralph was in the Fourth Grade, he began serving wedding Masses as an Altar Boy at Mary Queen Catholic Church. He continued this through high school, eventually serving at nearly 100 wedding Masses. As a teenager he donned a white dinner jacket and served as an usher at his older brother’s wedding.

  Upon becoming an adult, Ralph was honored to be the Best Man for four friends. When Ralph married Karen in 1996, he drew on his Gonzaga Prep connections for ceremony assistance. To officiate the ceremony, he asked a priest who had been one of his teachers and for the ceremony music, he had a former classmate sing and play guitar. In 2003 Ralph and Karen’s goddaughter got married and she honored him by asking him to be the Father of the Bride. The wedding took place in Ralph and Karen’s back yard and Ralph was responsible for the physical set up of the ceremony site.

  A few years later, Ralph’s boyhood friend decided to get remarried and he asked Ralph to perform their ceremony. He was greatly honored by this and became ordained by the Universal Life Church Monastery on April 1, 2008. Ralph worked with Karen to write the ceremony and worked with her in his preparation for performing the ceremony. The ceremony was unique and beautiful and the couple was very please with how well Ralph conducted the service.

  Ralph and Karen very much enjoyed preparing for and performing this friend’s wedding. They each thought that performing weddings would be a wonderful and fun profession to be in. When both Ralph and Karen discovered that the other felt that way, they decided they would start a business in order to perform weddings professionally. Thus was the birth of Ralph’s Regal Weddings.

  As is fitting for a company named Ralph’s Regal Weddings, Ralph does the majority of the ceremonies. However, being Ralph is only one person, he occasionally needs some help when requests for weddings overlap. That’s why Ralph shares this duty with Reverend Heather and occasionally with Reverend Karen.

  
  

• Speciality We specialize in themed weddings as well as non-traditional ceremonies. We performed the first ever wedding at the start line of the Spokane Bloomsday Race in 2011. We have done Military weddings. Some of the themes we have done have been Beach, Cowboy, Halloween, Hawaiian, Dr. Who, and Raman-Western.

• Education Reverend Ralph: Bachelors Degree, Gonzaga University; Reverend Karen: Bachelors Degree, University of Washington, Masters Degree, University of Idaho

• Associations INPRO (Inland Northwest Professional Resource Organization)

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