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Wedding Ring Alternatives: 5 Gifts to Exchange Instead of Rings at Your Ceremony

Wedding Ring Alternatives: 5 Gifts to Exchange Instead of Rings at Your Ceremony

Looking for wedding ring alternatives to exchange during your wedding ceremony or elopement? Get creative with these 5 unique gift ideas – including matching tattoos, custom watches, love letters, and more. Add a gift exchange to your ceremony during or after the vow exchange, or any time that feels right.

Young groom and bride hug outside in casual clothes, groom kisses bride's forehead.

Our Favorite Ways to Get Married Without a Wedding Ceremony

5 sweet, inexpensive, and romantic ways to get married without a wedding ceremony. Whether you want to elope alone, invite a few guests, or skip straight to signing the marriage license, these ideas offer creative alternatives that feel just right!

A couple dressed in traditional clothing stand together after their Viking wedding ceremony, embracing and smiling

Viking Weddings: Magic, Swords, Runes, Ritual Sacrifice, and More

Viking wedding traditions to include in your marriage ceremony: wedding swords, blot ritual, Norse runes, spell casting, handfasting, cleansing, what to wear, how to officiate & more Pagan marriage rites

“With This… Goat? I Thee Wed” : A wedding with baby pygmy goats!

“With This… Goat? I Thee Wed” : A wedding with baby pygmy goats!

AMM Minister Patricia Burgess helps a couple exchange pygmy goats instead of wedding rings to make their ceremony the perfect custom fit!

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