Upon reading the AP report that Bill Clinton will officiate at the wedding of Rep. Anthony Weiner to Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, NY1′s Grace Rauh started making some calls to see if the former president needed to do anything to prepare.

She writes:

NY City Clerk Michael McSweeney tells me that being a former President does not make one eligible to perform a wedding ceremony in New York State.

So, it’s possible that Clinton became an ordained minister to officiate at the ceremony (perhaps through the Universal Life Church?)… Still trying to figure out if that’s the case (there’s no exhaustive list of ordained ministers that I’m aware of).

If the happy couple was getting married in the city, then whoever is officiating at his wedding would have had to register with the city. But since the wedding is on Long Island, those same requirements don’t apply.

The 45-year-old congressman and his 34-year-old fiancee are to be married Saturday at the Oheka Castle in Huntington.

They’ve been dating for about two years and announced their engagement last summer. Weiner is Jewish. Abedin grew up in Saudi Arabia and is Muslim. (As the former president said at a recent pre-wedding party for the couple, this is the embodiment of what “the future of the world should be”).

The Clintons are a bit wedding crazy this summer. They’re in the midst of preparing the nuptials of their daughter, Chelsea, and investment banker Marc Mezvinsky in Rhinebeck later this month.

UPDATE: A married reader writes: “Definitely not as good of a story as Clinton becoming Universal Life Minister, but I’m guessing that they will have a judge sign the papers before or after the ceremony. That’s what (we did) when we got married…We were technically already married before (my wife) walked down the aisle. I bet they will do something similar.”

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