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Casting Call: Aspiring Actors Make Great Wedding Officiants

Casting Call: Aspiring Actors Make Great Wedding Officiants

Casting call: Actors wanted for an exciting new role... Wedding Officiant! Learn how to use your skills as an actor to marry people and become a talented officiant, from practicing the wedding ceremony script to helping couples shine on the wedding day. Officiating is a great side job or full time career, and may even become your calling... and it all starts with online ordination with AMM.

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How to Get Married in Wyoming - Planning a Wedding in the Cowboy State

A step-by-step guide to help you plan a wedding and get married in Wyoming - including how to find a wedding officiant, choose the best wedding venue, plan your ceremony, and how to apply for and return your Wyoming marriage license.

Tickets Available! AMM’s Atlanta Wedding Officiant Education & Networking Day

Tickets Available! AMM’s Atlanta Wedding Officiant Education & Networking Day

Join American Marriage Ministries for a day of wedding officiant education and networking on April 12, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia! This live event includes guest speakers with expert advice on how to be an incredible wedding officiant and build a successful business, networking and strategy seminars, and community building for officiants in the greater Atlanta area and beyond. Tickets are available now on Eventbrite.

North Texas LGBTQ+ Wedding Vendors & Allies Gather for ‘Sip and See’ This Weekend

North Texas LGBTQ+ Wedding Vendors & Allies Gather for ‘Sip and See’ This Weekend

Free ‘sip and see’ wedding planning event for same-sex and other LGBTQ couples in the Dallas Fort Worth area will bring together local LGBTQ+ wedding vendors and allied businesses on February 19, 2023. The LGBTQ+ Sip & See Spring Wedding Planning Event is organized by the North Texas LGBTQ Wedding Network and Chevy Chey Photography, and will be held at Apricus Venue in Corinth, TX.

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Sample Wedding Officiant Contract: Defining Your ‘Terms of Service’ for Professional Officiants

Use this sample wedding officiant contract to help define your business terms of service. This vendor contract template includes details about who the agreement is between, the types of services, an example of cost breakdown and deposit requirements, who purchases and returns the marriage license, cancellation policy and more!

Want to Start a Wedding Chapel? Advice From Professional Officiants

Want to Start a Wedding Chapel? Advice From Professional Officiants

Want to open your own wedding venue, or start a wedding chapel? 3 professional wedding officiants offer advice on building your brick and mortar business, including how to cover start up costs, choose the perfect location, attract the right couples and clients, handle payments and business taxes, marketing tips, and more! Featuring advice from ordained AMM Officiants Lori Prashker-Thomas, Latrice Roman, and Margaret Hall.

Ask an Officiant: Do I Need A Contract For My Wedding Officiant Business?

Ask an Officiant: Do I Need A Contract For My Wedding Officiant Business?

Should professional wedding officiants provide a contract for their services? AMM Minister & pro officiant Sherri Crawford offers her advice, answers frequently asked questions about what to include when writing your vendor contract, what the legal and personal benefits to a contract are, when a couple or client should sign one, and how contracts ensure great business practices, and a great wedding day!

Introducing The Anonymous Officiant: Your wildest wedding stories, told anonymously

Introducing The Anonymous Officiant: Your wildest wedding stories, told anonymously

Hey, Wedding Officiants! Share your real wedding story or rant anonymously in The Anonymous Officiant: We're accepting submissions of true stories, rants, and other revelations from the wild world of officiating. Do you have a secret, a cautionary tale, a wedding day disaster story, or exciting gossip? A true tale that's funny, heartwarming, scandalous, surprising, or informative? Something you want to confess, or get off your chest? Read our submission guidelines and publish your short story with us on the AMM American Weddings blog!

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Valentine’s Wedding In Vegas? Get a Marriage License At The Airport!

A pop-up marriage license office is open at Henry Reid International Airport LAS, just outside Las Vegas, from now until Valentine's Day, February 14th, 2023! The temporary location is operated near Carousel 5 in Terminal 1 baggage claim by the Clark County Clerk, to make it easier for out of town couples to elope on this romantic holiday wedding date. Learn how to start the license pre-application process, how much a NV marriage license costs, and more.

This Dallas Officiant is Giving Wedding Guests the Tea & Putting Couples at Ease

This Dallas Officiant is Giving Wedding Guests the Tea & Putting Couples at Ease

Texas Wedding Officiant Latrice Roman is known for performing unique marriage ceremonies that spill the tea on a couple’s love story and leave everyone feeling calm and comfortable – including the newlyweds! Her inclusive business, Put a Ring on it Dallas! , offers a small elopement venue, fun photos, and a wide range of wedding packages and services, to ensure a cute, affordable, and memorable wedding ceremony. Latrice is an ordained minister with American Marriage Ministries and has been officiating since 2018.

How to Get Married in New Hampshire - Planning a Wedding in the Granite State

How to Get Married in New Hampshire - Planning a Wedding in the Granite State

A step-by-step guide to help you plan a wedding and get married in New Hampshire - including how to find a wedding officiant, choose the best wedding venue, plan your ceremony, and how to apply for and return your New Hampshire marriage license or certificate.

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¿Vale la pena el precio del paquete de Ordenación de Ministro (Minister Ordination Package) de American Marriage Ministries?

¿Qué viene en el paquete de Ordenación de Ministro (Minister Ordination Package) de AMM? Un repaso de todo lo incluido en su paquete de ordenación ministerial, incluyendo su Carta de Buena Reputación (Letter of Good Standing) y Certificado de Ordenación (Ordination Certificate), para ayudarle a decidir qué paquete ordenar, y por qué querría hacerlo.

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Hawaii Marriage Performer License Fees Increase For All Officiants, Including AMM Ministers

Hawaii Marriage Performer License Fees Increase For All Officiants, Including AMM Ministers

Learn about the fee increase for Marriage Performers in Hawaii, including all ordained religious officiants and judicial officiants. Effective July, 2023, all wedding officiants are required to pay $100 per year for a standard license or $25 per 60 day period for a short-term license to solemnize marriage in Hawaii. Asked to officiate a wedding in Hawaii? Here's what to know! (2023 HI SB1370 / HB1072 / Kouchi)

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Wedding Ceremony Script PDFs for Officiants: Download, Print, and Perform!

Looking for the perfect wedding officiant script? AMM now offers a simple PDF download option for popular wedding scripts and templates in our Ceremony Scripts Library! Choose from religious, non-religious, traditional, modern, and LGBTQ+ friendly scripts, then click, print, and officiate.

New Script! Pantheist Wedding Ceremony with Reading from Carl Sagan

New Script! Pantheist Wedding Ceremony with Reading from Carl Sagan

New wedding officiant script! This marriage ceremony is inspired by Pantheist beliefs in the divine beauty of the universe, the sacredness of nature, and the remarkable gifts of love and marriage. It includes a reading from Carl Sagan, an unplugged wedding announcement, a moment of cosmic reflection, a sweet ring and vows exchange, and more.

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Ceremony Planning Articles

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How to Get Married at Home (for a Sweet & Easy Wedding Day)

Everything you need to know about getting married at home! Including what’s required to make your marriage legal, how to find a wedding officiant or ask a friend to officiate, if you need witnesses present, where to apply for a marriage license, and more.

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Can You Get a Marriage License During a Government Shutdown?

Can you still get a marriage license during a government shutdown? Can AMM Ministers still officiate a wedding ceremony during a federal shutdown? We cover everything you need to know about getting married during these wild times, including details for Washington D.C.

Who Can Officiate a Wedding in Sequoia National Park?

Who Can Officiate a Wedding in Sequoia National Park?

Looking for the best wedding officiant for a Sequoia National Park wedding? Want to officiate a unique forest ceremony under a canopy of giant sequoias? Here’s what you need to know from hiring professional officiants to asking a friend or relative to get ordained online to officiate your California wedding.

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Religion and Rituals Articles

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Community Articles

“With This… Goat? I Thee Wed” : A wedding with baby pygmy goats!

“With This… Goat? I Thee Wed” : A wedding with baby pygmy goats!

AMM Minister Patricia Burgess helps a couple exchange pygmy goats instead of wedding rings to make their ceremony the perfect custom fit!

Netflix asks 'Marriage or Mortgage': We say NOPE.

Netflix asks 'Marriage or Mortgage': We say NOPE.

‘Marriage or Mortgage’ : A new Netflix show asks Nashville couples to choose between a large wedding and a home, and couldn't come at a stranger time -- as couples struggle with unemployment, housing and financial challenges, wedding cancellations, postponements, and loss during the Covid pandemic.

Plan and Officiate a Spring Equinox Wedding with Community Flower Ceremony

Plan and Officiate a Spring Equinox Wedding with Community Flower Ceremony

Love is in the air! Celebrate with a Spring Equinox wedding that’s brimming with colorful flowers and loving friends.

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