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Check out these 36 articles tagged with Pagan Weddings. The American Weddings Blog is your source for officiant tips, ceremony planning, and more.
Ask your wedding officiant to perform this simple 6 card spread, 2 person tarot reading for marriage advice, strengths and challenges in the relationship, and how to work together to create a loving and lasting union. A mystical unity ceremony idea that's perfect for Wiccan and modern Pagan weddings, or for anyone who loves tarot.
A wedding smudge ceremony is a meaningful way to bless a marriage with lasting love, harmony, wisdom, protection, and good luck. Learn how to add a custom smudging ritual to your wedding, including the origins and basics of burning sage and other herbs, how to make and burn a smudge stick, and finding the perfect words to say for a spiritual, religious, Pagan, Celtic, or Indigenous/ Native American inspired wedding ceremony.
Use this simple recipe to make a sweet-smelling protective wedding smudge stick for your wedding’s smudging ceremony. This sacred combination of sage, sweetgrass, and lavender is said to welcome love, harmony, wisdom, and good luck into your marriage, while clearing away negative energy.
These Wiccan wedding vows cast a powerful spell of love and commitment. Use in place of traditional wedding vows in a Wiccan or other modern Pagan wedding ceremony or handfasting ritual, with suggestions on candle colors and altar arrangements for true magic.
This original Viking wedding ceremony script includes light Pagan wedding elements, an exchange of wedding bands / rings and vows (with optional sword exchange), a handfasting and blessing of the hands ritual, a traditional Norse toast with drinking horns, color symbolism, offering to the gods, and more. Skal! Written by Rev. Scarlett Mullikin
4 Pagan wedding blessing examples and sample scripts to help you personalize your own handfasting, marriage ceremony, or Year and a Day celebration. With suggestions for each season and specific Pagan holiday, use these nature-focused readings as-is or as inspiration to write a custom Pagan wedding script in your own words.
Follow these simple steps to perform marriage for friends and family.
Pagan wedding ceremony ideas: A list of Pagan gods / goddesses and common offerings to use during the marriage ritual, including candle lighting, herbs, wine, and ceremonial fire. This custom is part of traditional and modern Pagan weddings, including in Wiccan, Druid, Asatru and other Earth centered religions, to ask for blessings and protection, and to honor gods, spirits, and ancestors.
Prepare for your handfasting ceremony and wedding day with American Marriage Ministries’ handfasting quiz! Plus links to our most popular handfasting articles and ceremony scripts.
The ancient magic of Norse runes is used in Viking weddings and other Pagan weddings and handfastings as blessing and protection. Add these runes from the Elder Futhark to your wedding altar, wedding bands, wedding swords, invitations, and day-of ceremony decor as part of a memorable marriage rite.
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
Learn about the similarities and differences between Interfaith and Interspiritual beliefs, and how these concepts apply to wedding ceremonies.
A festive new wedding ceremony script with a handfasting and mead / honey wine toast to help you celebrate your marriage on the Summer Solstice!
A Summer Solstice Wedding Ceremony with handfasting and honey wine mead toast ! Plan and officiate a unique summer wedding with this outline of parts of a ceremony and sample wedding script.
How to plan & perform an Oathing Stone Ceremony, including vows and sample script for modern or traditional weddings. This versatile unity ritual from Scotland can be used with blessing stones, wedding altars, or on its own for a memorable day!
A stone blessing ceremony and wishing stones are a magical way to involve friends and family members in your wedding ceremony. This unique blessing stones unity ritual is perfect for spiritual and non-denominational weddings, Wiccan and Pagan weddings, or for non-religious weddings as a way for friends and family members to show their support for your new marriage.
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