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A girl stands next to a colorful Maypole, with ribbons. She is wearing a white dress and a flower wreath

1300 DAYS AGO | 5.3.2021

How to add a Maypole Dance to Your Wedding Celebration

Learn about the history of the Maypole dance and how to add one to your wedding celebration, for May Day, Beltane, Wiccan, Pagan, and nonreligious celebrations.

Illustration of ingredients for a Beltane Pagan wedding incense

1302 DAYS AGO | 5.1.2021

A Simple Beltane Incense Recipe for Your Wedding

A magical Beltane incense recipe for your wedding ceremony. A unique addition to any wedding, marriage rite, engagement, betrothal, or Wiccan handfasting rit...

Trees, a magical forest view to inspire a wedding

1303 DAYS AGO | 4.30.2021

How to Add a Tree Planting Ceremony to Your Wedding

Celebrate your bond with a tree planting ceremony! This unique unity ritual can be adapted to any theme or location, even indoor ceremonies, by using housepl...

A mansion in South Florida where an illegal wedding was held, aerial view

1304 DAYS AGO | 4.29.2021

Bride and groom plan wedding at stranger’s mansion without permission

A South Florida couple tried to have their wedding ceremony at a stranger's mansion estate without permission, leading to disaster when authorities were call...

Illustration of a bride, groom, and wedding officiant, friends on the wedding day

1305 DAYS AGO | 4.28.2021

Can you legally perform a wedding ceremony for your friends and family? Yes!

Curious who can legally marry a couple in your state, and if you’re on that list? Wondering how to become a wedding officiant or ordained minister to marry p...

Polaroids of two friends on their wedding day, laid out on a table with a daisy

1306 DAYS AGO | 4.27.2021

Platonic best friends wed, redefining marriage with a love that transcends ro...

Two platonic best friends get married in an 'anti-establishment' unconventional marriage to build a life together.

Celebrations of Life: Wild Child Reverend Scarlett’s memorial services honor people in the same ways they lived

1306 DAYS AGO | 4.27.2021

Celebrations of Life: Wild Child Reverend Scarlett’s memorial services honor ...

AMM Reverend Scarlett Mullikin is an LGBTQ wedding officiant who creates meaningful, authentic memorial services and ceremonies for fellow free-spirits, hono...

Bride wears wedding dress to get vaccinated

1307 DAYS AGO | 4.26.2021

Bride wears wedding dress to get vaccinated

A Baltimore bride decided to wear her wedding reception dress to get her COVID-19 vaccine at the M&T Bank Stadium Mass Vaccination Site.

Vaccines and Weddings -- What officiants and couples can expect this summer

1307 DAYS AGO | 4.26.2021

Vaccines and Weddings -- What officiants and couples can expect this summer

From guest lists to contracts and travel, what wedding officiants and couples can expect as more Americans get vaccinated against COVID-19 and wedding ceremo...

Asked to Officiate a Wedding?

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

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Summer Survival: 10 Items to Add to Your Officiant Wedding Emergency Kit This Season

1309 DAYS AGO | 4.24.2021

Summer Survival: 10 Items to Add to Your Officiant Wedding Emergency Kit This...

From sunscreen to bug spray -- prepare for spring and summer weddings by adding these smart seasonal items to your Officiant Wedding Emergency Kit and avoid ...

Illustration of a wedding officiant performing a wedding ceremony, reading from an open book with the officiant script inside. Behind her is an illustrated design of flowers on a green background representing nature

1311 DAYS AGO | 4.22.2021

Eco-Friendly Wedding Officiants -- How to Keep Weddings Green From Behind the...

Eco-friendly weddings aren’t just for Earth Day! Wedding officiants can help keep ceremonies green every day, with these behind the scenes business and cerem...

AMM is Carbon Neutral and Proud

1311 DAYS AGO | 4.22.2021

AMM is Carbon Neutral and Proud

American Marriage Ministries remains carbon neutral as we head into a new year of weddings and opportunity. Protecting our environment is essential, and clim...

Missouri legislators debate whether marriages must be solemnized, may replace marriage licenses with ‘contracts of domestic union’

1312 DAYS AGO | 4.21.2021

Missouri legislators debate whether marriages must be solemnized, may replace...

Proposed legislation pending in the Missouri House could replace marriage licenses with contracts of domestic union, and eliminate the need for a wedding cer...

Illustration of a sample marriage license with an 'x' marking the spot where a wedding officiant minister would sign or write their denomination

1313 DAYS AGO | 4.20.2021

Filling out a Marriage License: What religious denomination do I write down i...

What to write down when you're an atheist wedding officiant and the marriage license asks for the minister's religious denomination, including options for no...

Stylized illustration of two friends facing each other, on laptops talking

1314 DAYS AGO | 4.19.2021

After a year of living life online, do distinctions like ‘online church’ even...

How designations like ‘online church’ and ‘online ordination’ have changed after a year of connecting with loved ones and communities online, Zoom, and Skype...

La foto de cerca muestra a un joven ministro completando el papeleo para registrarse como ministro de bodas y prepararse para oficiar una ceremonia de boda.

1314 DAYS AGO | 4.19.2021

Cómo Obtener una Certificación para Casar a Alguien: Licencia Ministerial, Ce...

Para ejecutar una boda legal como ministro de bodas, necesitas asegurarte de que cuentas con los requisitos estatales. El primer paso antes de oficiar una c...

Two grooms stand next to each other holding small rainbow flags to symbolize LGBTQ+ marriage rights

1316 DAYS AGO | 4.17.2021

Wedding venues are turning away same-sex couples: A look at current laws and ...

Wedding venues in North Carolina and Ohio refused service to same-sex couples. We look at current protections for first amendment rights and religion, LGBTQ+...

La bandera/escudo del estado de Utah

1317 DAYS AGO | 4.16.2021

El Estado de Utah se Instaura como el Primer Estado en Permitir Bodas Virtual...

Utah se acaba de convertir en el primer estado en el país en legitimar una boda virtual vía Zoom entre una pareja que vive no solo en diferentes estados, sin...

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