Learn about legislation to allow virtual marriage license appointments and online wedding ceremonies in New Jersey. Carry over bills sponsored by Representative Don Guardian [R] and Representative Annette Quijano [D] would create new legal provisions for remote marriage services and ceremonies conducting with video-conference like Zoom, Skype, or Google Meet. (2024 Senate Bill 1165 and Assembly Bill 3082 / S1165 ; A3082 ; previous A2347 )

Learn about current efforts to make online weddings legal in New York State, and bring online marriage services to more couples. Legislation sponsored by Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal would increase access to virtual marriage license appointments and authorize the remote solemnization and witnessing of marriage by audio-visual technology… aka, online wedding ceremonies!

Can an AI Avatar or Chatbot Legally Officiate a Wedding Ceremony? Learn who (and what) can serve as a legal officiant for your marriage ceremony, including what to know about self-solemnizing weddings, virtual and remote online weddings, and how to include an AI avatar or chatbot as a co-officiant.

Learn about potential changes to marriage laws in your state in 2024, including proposed legislation in New York, New Jersey, Nebraska, Missouri, Virginia, Utah, West Virginia, California, and other states, and how these changes could affect AMM Ministers and other officiants who officiate weddings there.

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.

Learn how conversational AI technology makes it possible to include deceased relatives and friends in your wedding ceremony, such as a virtual toast, speech, marriage advice, and more. With the help of platforms like StoryFile Life, HearAfter AI, and others, couples can now have new ways of honoring the dead on the wedding day.

Here’s what to know about the cost of online ordination to become minister in Iowa, including if you’ll need to pay to register as an officiant before you can officiate a wedding or elopement, and a comparison of prices for popular online ordination options, including free ordination through American Marriage Ministries.

Celebrate the new online officiant education series launched by American Marriage Ministries, AMM Talks, covering topics like marketing, public speaking, starting an officiant business, LGBTQ+ inclusivity, mindfulness, hospitality in the wedding industry, and much more. Each free bimonthly meetup features a short talk by an expert wedding officiant, followed by an interactive Q&A for new and first-time officiants to ask questions and build community.

Get inspired! Meet 13 of the AMM Ministers, Officiants, and Celebrants featured on American Weddings this year: These ten wedding officiants bring a unique style, perspective, and skill set to officiating, and help to make their communities a better place by leading with love. Read about their journey to officiating, business advice for new officiants, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and more.

Learn how much it costs to become an ordained minister online in New Mexico, whether you’ll pay more for minister registration to officiate a wedding, and how the cost of popular online ordination services compare, including free ordination through American Marriage Ministries.

Learn how much it costs to become an ordained minister online in Rhode Island, whether you’ll pay more for minister registration to officiate a wedding, and how the cost of popular online ordination services compare, including free ordination through American Marriage Ministries.

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.

AMM interviews the masterminds behind new horror movie ‘Invited,’ featuring a deadly woman-lead cult, family drama, and a Zoom wedding ceremony gone wrong! With screenwriter Monica La Vella (105ive Films) and director Navin Ramaswaran. Don’t miss this suspenseful found-footage film!

Following the announcement of The Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner's divorce from Theresa Nist (S1), wedding officiant Susan Noles joked that the couple's split ruined her 'perfect record' of couples staying married after the ceremony. It makes us wonder: Do other officiants keep track of their couples' marriage success?

Wedding guest Kuroboshi wears a Mobile Suit Gundam cosplay costume to the wedding afterparty of two Japanese cosplayers, Ryuryu and Ruby.

Five sweet suggestions for what to do with a purity ring during the marriage ceremony, and how to honor or incorporate a purity pledge and promise of abstinence on the wedding day. Advice for Christian couples, with tips on how to ask your wedding officiant for guidance.

Learn the pros and cons of a civil marriage ceremony vs. a non-religious wedding ceremony, who officiates a civil ceremony, and advice on how to find a wedding officiant for your secular ceremony.

Learn about an unusual Serbian wedding tradition and how to ward off bad luck on the day of the wedding ceremony! Plus links to more unique wedding superstitions and customs from around the world.

Want to help others, celebrate love, and find a meaningful job – no degree required? Work as an ordained wedding officiant and marriage minister! It’s easy to get started and offers success at any age, whether you’re looking for, career, part time income, satisfying side job, or a spiritual calling.

Excellent advice for first time wedding officiants! Help newlyweds get the best first kiss photo – step out of the photographer's way during the pronouncement at the end of the ceremony. Learn the ‘officiant creep,’ coined by none other than AMM Minister and pro officiant Jimmie Berguin.

We’ve added new marriage certificate and vow renewal certificate designs to our store! Choose from a selection of green and gold nature themed certificates, bright floral patterns and flower designs, and more. A perfect wedding gift for newlyweds from a wedding officiant, friend, or relative.