30 "Seasonal" Category Articles

Discover the top Fall 2025 wedding trends from expert planner Lisa VanHorton, including intentional spending, silk florals, unique venues, smaller guest lists, and guest-friendly ideas for your autumn celebration.

Learn moon phase meanings for the best wedding date, including new moon & full moon wedding symbolism, with rituals to harness moon magic in your marriage.

The most popular wedding ceremony scripts of the 2024 Spring wedding season! Short, simple, funny, and slightly-spiritual, these are the trends to watch. With a wedding script to suit every style and budget, you’ll find just what you need for a memorable ceremony.

According to numerology, this Valentine’s Day might be the worst day of the year to get married! Find out why it’s so unlucky, what to expect if you've already booked the wedding date, and how a personalized spiritual unity ceremony can help you avoid negative energy, cold feet, family drama, and ceremony mistakes.

Get married during April’s solar eclipse in a unique group wedding event in Pottsville, Arkansas! Officiated by AMM-ordained Notary Officiant Kimberely Boren, this fun celestial ceremony promises love and laughter in the path of totality. An outdoor group wedding will be followed by a festive indoor reception with drinks, dessert, dancing, and more. (April 8, 2024)

The best wedding dates for every season in 2024, according to numerology! Expert numerologist Rebecca Scolnick offers insight and inspiration to help you choose the best day to get married, with Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall wedding dates that bring a mystical mix of love, connection, family, structure, spontaneity, tradition, and magic.

The most popular topics on AMM's American Weddings this year: The wedding trends that shaped 2023, with inspiration for 2024 and years to come! Including love locks and creative ring exchanges, public consummation, Satanic weddings, feet washing ceremonies, how to perform legal weddings with confidence, casting a circle and calling the corners for a Wiccan wedding, and more.

The most popular wedding ceremony scripts for officiants and couples this year, including a few surprising new trends and unity rituals: Lighthearted and funny, minimalist and civil ceremonies, handfasting, spiritual and religious wedding options, nods to popular culture like Vikings, Princess Bride, and horror movie classics, creative wording, and much more!

Learn how to officiate a Christmas wedding ceremony for the first time, including where to get ordained online, what questions to ask the couple, how to write a custom wedding ceremony script, how to complete the marriage license, and more!

For a spooktacular ceremony! Whether you’re planning a spine-tingling themed Halloween wedding, an eerie autumn handfasting or vow renewal, or just love the idea ghosts and ghouls joining the wedding party, start planning with this list of the most haunted places to say 'I do' in the U.S. Featuring locations in some of America's most haunted cities, including Chicago, Savannah, Salem, St. Augustine, San Antonio, and beyond.

Attn wedding officiants: Group weddings are an exciting part of Valentine's Day celebrations all around the country, as hundreds of couples gather to say 'We do!' to love and marriage on February 14th. Learn about mass wedding ceremonies happening near you for inspiration, and read our tips on how to officiate your own large ceremony.

These Nightmare Before Christmas inspired wedding vows always make us swoon! Read Jack and Sally’s lyrics of love from the Henry Selick & Tim Burton animated dark fantasy film classic, and learn how to add a whimsical, romantic, musical touch to your own wedding ceremony and marriage vows.

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.

Not sure how to celebrate National Loving Day, the holiday celebrating Mildred & Richard Loving, and the Supreme Court ruling in favor of interracial marriage? Here are five meaningful ideas to inspire you, from weddings and vow renewals, to movie screenings, potlucks, advocacy, and more.

Curious how America’s most romantic holiday got its start? AMM takes a look back at the bloody and uncertain history of Valentine’s Day, from pagans, Popes, and poets, to Hallmark, roses, and romantic proposals!