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Gender Neutral Wedding Terms for Inclusive Officiants

Learn inclusive, gender-neutral alternatives for common wedding terms for the couple and their wedding party, and help make the wedding industry more welcoming to LGBTQ+ couples and their friends and families! This list includes simple gender-free substitutes for commonly gendered terms like bridal, bride or groom, bridesmaid, best man, and more.

Palm Reading: Unique & Mystical Unity Ritual for Your Wedding Ceremony or Celebration

Palm Reading: Unique & Mystical Unity Ritual for Your Wedding Ceremony or Celebration

Add a unique and unexpected unity ceremony to your wedding ceremony, reception, or afterparty, with palm reading! Palm reading can be combined with traditional 'blessing of the hands' or handfasting rituals to create something new and authentically YOU. Learn common meanings and how to read the heart line, head line, life line, and marriage line on a couple's palms, plus the advice we'd give these newlyweds if we were the wedding officiant or friend performing this ritual!

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What to Say & Do During a Hands Blessing Wedding Ceremony

A simple, nonreligious hand blessing ceremony script. This blessing is easy to combine with another unity ritual, such as a handfasting or palm reading, to create a personalized and unique ceremony. This variation on a traditional 'Blessing of the Hands' reading includes mindfulness elements, advice for the future, and ends with a popular Irish wedding blessing.

10 Wedding Reminders For Real Couples From an Officiant’s Perspective

10 Wedding Reminders For Real Couples From an Officiant’s Perspective

REAL wedding advice for couples from professional wedding officiant Jody Serey! This candid advice is for anyone planning a wedding, to keep your marriage ceremony on track, on budget, stress free, drama free, fun, and everything you want it to be.

You Don’t Have to Choose Between Planning a Wedding & Buying a House

You Don’t Have to Choose Between Planning a Wedding & Buying a House

This advice will help you get married for less money and without going into debt! You don't have to plan an expensive wedding ceremony or reception to have a good time. Check out these popular resources on how to plan an intimate, inexpensive, memorable, and fun wedding ceremony, including how to find an officiant you can afford.

Un novio y una novia se alejan de la cámara, uno al lado del otro, abrazados en una habitación colorida, con amigos y familiares de pie a cada lado.

¿Qué Edad hay que tener para Oficiar una Boda?

¿Qué edad hay que tener para oficiar una ceremonia matrimonial para amigos y familiares, o para trabajar profesionalmente como oficiante matrimonial? Conozca la edad mínima requerida para oficiar una boda en cada estado, junto con otra información importante sobre la celebración de matrimonios.

Asked to Officiate a Wedding?

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

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Wedding Ceremony Ideas From Celebrities Who Got Married Later in Life

Sweet wedding ideas from 5 celebrity couples who married later in life: Ask a friend to officiate, celebrate with a backyard elopement, plan an adults-only vacation wedding, and more! Inspiration for older couples, from Cameron Diaz and Benjie Madden; Tika Sumpter and Nicholas James; Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi; Elton John and David Furnish; Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault.

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Avoid These 5 Common Wedding Ceremony Regrets (Advice For Couples & Officiants)

Plan the perfect wedding ceremony by avoiding these 5 common wedding regrets, with advice for couples & wedding officiants on what to ask your officiant, the benefits of an unplugged & phone-free ceremony, backups for uncomfortable shoes, budgets and overspending, calming high anxiety, and much more!

Un hombre oficia una ceremonia de boda en un tren de Amtrak mientras los invitados miran.

10 Lugares Únicos e Inusuales para Casarse en EE.UU.

¿Está buscando un lugar único para celebrar su boda? Déjese inspirar por esta lista de 10 lugares inusuales y únicos para casarse, que incluye bodas en un cementerio, un barco pirata, una cueva, un acuario, un museo médico, un aeropuerto, ¡y mucho más! También encontrará enlaces a nuestros guiones gratuitos para ceremonias de boda y consejos sobre cómo hacer que un amigo se ordene en línea para oficiar su ceremonia... ¡para una celebración de boda realmente original!

Asked to Officiate a Secret Wedding? Keep These 3 Things in Mind…

Asked to Officiate a Secret Wedding? Keep These 3 Things in Mind…

Three tips for wedding officiants asked to officiate a secret wedding or elopement ceremony, including confirming your couple's identity and the details on their marriage license, choosing a private location, and more!

Amigos y familiares observan cómo los novios se declaran casados ​​durante una hermosa ceremonia de boda al aire libre. A los recién casados ​​​​se une un oficiante de bodas, detrás de ellos hay un arco nupcial decorativo y árboles del bosque.

¿Quién oficia una boda si no va a un Juzgado o a una Iglesia?

¿Va a casarse, pero no está seguro de quién puede oficiar su boda si no es en el juzgado o en una Iglesia? ¿Quién oficia una boda si es en casa, en un parque público o en un lugar privado? Descubra cuáles son sus opciones a la hora de elegir un oficiante para su boda: incluyendo contratar a un profesional o preguntarle a un amigo o familiar que se ordene para casarlo.

How to Get Ordained Online & Officiate a Friend’s Wedding Ceremony

How to Get Ordained Online & Officiate a Friend’s Wedding Ceremony

Asked to officiate a friend's wedding ceremony? Learn how to get ordained online and officiate a wedding for friends or relatives, including ordination, minister certification and registration, the basic outline and parts of a wedding, what to say, and your responsibility to sign and return the marriage license.

Are Marriage Licenses Public Records? (And Where Can You Marry in Secret?)

Are Marriage Licenses Public Records? (And Where Can You Marry in Secret?)

Learn how marriage licenses become public records in the city or county where you marry, why some couples want a private wedding, and how to keep your marriage records a secret with California's 'confidential marriage license' and Michigan's 'marriage license without publicity.'

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Wedding regrets: Should a wedding officiant return the marriage license if the couple changes their mind after the ceremony?

The ultimate wedding regret! Learn what to do if a couple changes their minds about being married after the wedding ceremony, and what your legal responsibility is as a wedding officiant when it's time to return a signed marriage license to the clerk or registrar's office.

A Simple Wedding Script to Use When a Parent Officiates Your Ceremony

A Simple Wedding Script to Use When a Parent Officiates Your Ceremony

There's a new script in our library! This ‘Parent Officiating’ wedding script is the perfect fit for when a couple asks a mother, father, grandparent, or mentor to officiate their wedding ceremony. Use it as is, or personalize this sample officiant script with details from your life and love story, add a unity ceremony, then put it all together for a sweet, custom officiant speech that’s ready to go on your marriage day! Written by ordained AMM Minister Dan Henkel.

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