These Wedding Planning Books Make Great Gifts

Gift ideas for engagements or new officiants: These wedding planning books focus on the most important part of the day – the wedding ceremony.

 

Looking for a perfect gift for a newly engaged couple, or your favorite wedding officiant?

 

Wedding planning guides make great gifts!

 

And here at AMM, we believe that the best wedding planning books are the ones that focus on the wedding ceremony itself – that timeless ritual when two people make the promise to join together in marriage. Unfortunately, most planning guides out there focus on other details – the dancing, the drinks, the tablecloths, the venue. These details are a heck of a lot of fun, but none come close to the importance of the ceremony.

 

Related: 5 Great Reasons to Ask a Friend to Officiate Your Wedding

 

That’s where the unique planning guides from American Marriage Ministries come in: These books are written specifically with the ceremony in mind, from traditional weddings to modern elopements. 

 

These books are written with both couples and their wedding officiants in mind. They’re easy to use and inclusive of all faiths and family structures, because AMM is dedicated to offering free and inclusive online ordination, training, and advocacy to our diverse family of ministers and the couples they marry.

 

• Get ordained onlne with American Marriage Ministries here

 

Give one as an engagement gift, your favorite professional wedding officiant, and anyone who wants to learn how to officiate a wedding for the first time. 

 

Wedding Planning Books with a Focus on the Ceremony 

 

1. Navigating Your Wedding Ceremony

 

This wedding ceremony planning guide was written for couples by a professional wedding officiant – with expert advice on how to write your own vows, find the perfect vendors, apply for your marriage license, choose an original unity ceremony, complete a legal name change, and much, much more. 

 

Written by Officiant Amber
Cost: $15

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(Center photo courtesty of the author @officiantamber)

 

 

 

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2. Lucky in Love: Traditions, Customs & Rituals to Personalize Your Wedding 

 

This beautifully illustrated book includes wedding traditions, customs, rituals, and superstitions from all over the world to use as inspiration for your own magical wedding ceremony. A great choice for multicultural, interfaith, and modern couples of all stripes – create your own lucky wedding traditions or honor auspicious rituals from the past, and make your own luck in love.

 

Written by Eleni N. Gage; Illustrated by Emily Isabella
Cost: $17

 

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Center photo, author Eleni N. Gage

 

 

 

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3. Handfasting: From Ancient Rituals to Modern Ceremonies

 

This illustrated handfasting ceremony planning guide is practical, magical, and filled with Pagan lore – blending timeless insights and ancient Celtic and Pagan wedding traditions with modern how-to instructions and ceremony scripts, to help you plan the perfect handfasting celebration. 

 

Written & illustrated by Jessica Levey
Cost: $15

 

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Order your copy of Handfasting here

 

 

 

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4. Asked To Officiate : Your Complete Guide to a Perfect Ceremony

 

This is the definitive how-to book for first time wedding officiants. This step-by-step workbook was created by professional officiants to help you understand and master every part of planning, writing, and delivering a wedding ceremony, from writing a custom script, to getting the timing right, meeting your legal obligations and requirements, interviewing the couple, what to wear, what to say, and more.  

 

Written by American Marriage Ministries and Bethel Nathan
Cost: $30

 

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