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How to write a compelling minister profile or personal bio

How to write a compelling minister profile or personal bio

Tips for wedding officiants on how to write an engaging minister profile or personal bio

Safe Ceremony Planning — How Wedding Officiants Can Still Get to Know a Couple, While Social Distancing

Safe Ceremony Planning — How Wedding Officiants Can Still Get to Know a Couple, While Social Distancing

Wedding ceremony planning, Learn how to have a great first-meeting and interview with a new couple while social distancing.

Handfasting and Virtual Weddings -- Keeping Traditions Alive in Modern Microweddings

Handfasting and Virtual Weddings -- Keeping Traditions Alive in Modern Microweddings

Lessons from a Seattle couple’s livestreamed handfasting, where not just one but two dads helped officiate the unique virtual event.

More Than Words: 5 Body Language Tips for New Officiants

More Than Words: 5 Body Language Tips for New Officiants

Learn how to use body language to improve ceremonies for first time wedding officiants.

Close up photo as Bride places ring on groom's finger during the wedding ceremony

Can I Get A Witness? Small Ceremonies, Witness Requirements, and Self-Solemnizing Marriages Revisited

Most states require an officiant and witnesses at a wedding ceremony, but there are a few places where couples can officiate weddings on their own with a self-solemnizing ceremony

bride, bridesmaids, and friends laugh and talk at wedding ceremony

Rehearsals are Important - Even When Officiating a Friend’s Casual Backyard Wedding Ceremony

Whether your wedding is big or small, rehearsing the ceremony is a must

Asked to Officiate a Wedding?

Follow these simple steps to perform marriage for friends and family.

Attention Officiants: 4 things you might forget the day of the wedding (and what to do about it)

Attention Officiants: 4 things you might forget the day of the wedding (and what to do about it)

Four important things that wedding officiants often forget - and what they can do about it when it happens! Avoid wedding day disasters and turn mishaps into funny ceremony stories with a happy ending by remembering these four things - from checking your travel route, planning for unexpected rain and other weather, eating something before the ceremony, and more!

Illustration of a gothic bride and groom wearing animal masks for a Halloween or Samhain pagan wedding celebration

So you’ve been asked to officiate a Halloween or Samhain wedding...

Learn how to officiate a Halloween or Samhain wedding and write a custom fall holiday ceremony script.

Microphone Tips for Wedding Officiants and Couples

Microphone Tips for Wedding Officiants and Couples

Microphone and wedding audio advice for first time, novice officiants and couples planning their own wedding.

Why You Should Elope (an Illustrated Guide)

Why You Should Elope (an Illustrated Guide)

Looking for reasons to elope? These eloping ideas will inspire you! Plan a fun, eco friendly alternative to a traditional wedding. An illustrated elopement guide!

Illustration of bride, groom, and wedding officiant

Wedding Ceremony Stage Fright: Tips for officiants (and couples)

No more ceremony stage fright! Try these tips for speaking at a wedding ✓ Get past social anxiety & fear of public speaking for the wedding officiant & couples.

7 Tips for a Stress-Free & Socially Distanced Wedding Ceremony

7 Tips for a Stress-Free & Socially Distanced Wedding Ceremony

Advice for easy & low-stress socially distanced wedding and ceremony planning for couples and families to use during the coronavirus pandemic. COVID 19 safety at weddings as B4, B5, and other variants spread.

Illustration of a wedding officiant performing a ceremony, with bride and groom holding hands. The background is a stylized teal, with a bright orange sun.

From Ordinary Officiant to High Priestess

HOW choosing a friend to officiate their wedding gave two essential workers the unconventional Solstice ceremony of their dreams while the city around them shut down.

Cute illustration of a take out container filled with noodles, chopsticks, and a fortune cookie. The take out box says 'Just Married' on the side, with a pink heart drawn on it.

Butt-bumps and gift baskets, 6 ways friends and family can keep their distance while showering a newly-wed couple with love

How-to tips & suggestions to help support friends and family who are having socially distanced weddings during the pandemic, including virtual bachelorette parties & gift baskets

Wedding officiant reads from the wedding script to a bride and groom, all are wearing face masks

The Wedding Officiant's Guide to Planning a Minimony

American Marriage Ministries' guide for wedding officiants to help couples safely plan a minimony style wedding or elopement

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