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Close up photo of a bride and groom exchanging wedding rings during a beautiful legal wedding ceremony, with the officiant standing in the background

How to Tell if Your Officiant Can Perform a Legal Wedding

Learn who can legally officiate a wedding in your state and how to know if a wedding officiant meets the requirements to perform your marriage ceremony, including which states allow online ordination, types of American Marriage Ministries minister credentials, and minister certification / licensing in each state. Want to know if your marriage will be legal? Here’s what to look for when choosing a friend to officiate or hiring a professional.

10 Tips for Officiating a Winter Wedding

10 Tips for Officiating a Winter Wedding

Advice for wedding officiants during the holiday winter wedding season. Ten simple tips on which supplies to pack in your emergency kit, what to wear, what to include in your contract, how to network with other officiants to avoid day-of disasters if you’re unable to officiate at the last minute, and more.

All About Quaker Wedding Traditions & Marriage ‘Under the Care of the Meeting’

All About Quaker Wedding Traditions & Marriage ‘Under the Care of the Meeting’

Learn about common Quaker wedding ceremony traditions including how to get married without a wedding officiant in a self-uniting ritual, what it means to marry "under the care of the meeting,' the Quaker marriage certificate, traditional Quaker wedding vows, where it's legal to perform your own marriage ceremony, rules for marrying members outside the Religious Society of Friends, and more.

Close up as a bride and groom perform a unity candle ceremony during their wedding. The couple are holding small candles to light a larger candle, and holding their free hands up to block the wind so that the flame doesn't go out. They are wearing formal wedding attire, including a white gown with lace sleeves, and a blue suit.

FAQs About the Unity Candle Ceremony, Including When, How, Who, Where, and Why!

All your questions about the wedding unity candle ceremony, answered: When to light the candle (before or after rings and vows), who lights the unity candle, how to include parents and others, wording and what to say, symbolism and meaning, whether to blow it out before the pronouncement, and more! For wedding officiants and engaged couples.

Dalai Lama Quotes on Love & Happiness for Your Wedding Ceremony Script

Dalai Lama Quotes on Love & Happiness for Your Wedding Ceremony Script

Quotes on love & happiness from The Dalai Lama to personalize any wedding ceremony script. Use in the invocation, wedding officiant’s blessing, vows, or as a unique wedding reading, for a Buddhist, interfaith, or spiritual marriage ceremony. Taken from The Art of Happiness, The Book of Joy & other essays, with additional quotes from Howard C. Culter.

A Simple Guide to Nikah Traditions & Muslim Wedding Words

A Simple Guide to Nikah Traditions & Muslim Wedding Words

A simple introduction to popular Nikah traditions and words you're likely to hear when planning or attending a Muslim wedding ceremony for the first time, including henna parties, signing the Islamic marriage certificate, separating guests by gender, the mangni, baraat, walima banquet dinners, and more. Nikah mubarak!

Asked to Officiate a Wedding?

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

Muslim Wedding Vows Inspired by Quran Verses on Love & Marriage

Muslim Wedding Vows Inspired by Quran Verses on Love & Marriage

5 examples of Muslim wedding vows inspired by quotes from the Quran about love and marriage to use in a modern Nikah ceremony or interfaith Muslim wedding ceremony. Read quotes from the Quran in English and sample vows written with Islamic marriage values in mind.

Bride and groom pose outside for wedding photos after the ceremony

Can’t Afford a Wedding? How to Get Married for (Almost) Free

How to have a free wedding, or almost free! If you can't afford a wedding, consider these alternatives for a free wedding officiant, free wedding venue, and more!

How to Become a Wedding Celebrant & Officiate a Wedding for the First Time

How to Become a Wedding Celebrant & Officiate a Wedding for the First Time

Follow these simple steps to get ordained online, register as a wedding celebrant, and complete our free minister training! American Marriage Ministries makes it easy to become an ordained officiant and officiate a wedding for the first time.

Simple Buddhist Chant for Love & Awareness in Your Wedding Ceremony

Simple Buddhist Chant for Love & Awareness in Your Wedding Ceremony

Planning a Buddhist wedding ceremony? This simple Buddhist chant and incense offering is spoken by the wedding officiant to welcome wholehearted awareness, love, patience, compassion, mindfulness, and harmony, as a foundation for a loving and lasting marriage. Use as part of a custom ceremony script, or click to see the full sample script in the AMM Ceremony Scripts Library.

Una novia y un novio se ríen y se abrazan el día de la boda, ella sostiene alegremente su ramo de flores mientras se sonríen

¡Nuevo Guión! Un Divertido Guión de Ceremonia de Boda con un Sencillo Ritual de Unidad

¡Hemos agregado un nuevo guión a la biblioteca! Este guión de boda chistoso incorpora historias y recuerdos personales en oraciones, votos matrimoniales clásicos y sinceros, y rituales de unidad humorísticos que se pueden modificar para adaptarse a los gustos y la personalidad de cualquier pareja. Perfecto para parejas creativas y no tradicionales que buscan una celebración del amor sin preocupaciones. (Funny Spanish wedding ceremony script.)

Unique Unity Ceremony with Tarot Reading on Love & Marriage

Unique Unity Ceremony with Tarot Reading on Love & Marriage

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 bride signs the marriage license as the groom watches.

Can you use a marriage license in another state?

Learn where and how to apply for a marriage license to get married in another state. Click now to start planning your dream destination wedding, plus tips for traveling wedding officiants!

5 Weird Unity Ceremony Ideas for Truly Unique Weddings

5 Weird Unity Ceremony Ideas for Truly Unique Weddings

Embrace the weird in love and life! From wreaths made of human hair to leaping with your lover over a bonfire, these weird unity ceremony ideas are the perfect alternatives to traditional rituals, to inspire a unique wedding ceremony your guests will remember for years to come. Based on unusual wedding traditions from around the world, including Victorian England, Pagan, and Venezuelan customs, with a quote on the 'mutually satisfying weirdness' we call true love.

Un novio y una novia posan para una foto, riendo y sonriendo felices el día de la boda y vestidos con un hermoso traje y vestido de novia. Tienen flores y globos blancos.

Un Sencillo Guión de Boda para Utilizar Cuando un Amigo Oficie la Ceremonia

Esta plantilla de guión de boda para un amigo oficiante facilita que una pareja y su amigo oficiante escriban una ceremonia personalizada. Simplemente rellene los espacios en blanco con los detalles de su historia de amor, cree un dulce maestro de ceremonias y votos personales, y júntelo todo para un breve guión de boda para su dia.

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