Professional stunt performers Ambyr Bambyr and Gabe Jessop lit themselves on fire during an unforgettable wedding recession. Read about the couple’s fiery wedding exit and how they made the unity ritual possible.

5 creative unity ceremony ideas for your beach wedding, including a shell or stone blessing ritual, unique tropical toast with a custom wedding cocktail, traditional sand ceremony, and more.

Learn about proposed changes to Alaska marriage laws, including raising the minimum age to marry to 16, placing additional limits on child marriage, and reducing the witness requirement to one witness when signing a marriage license after a wedding ceremony. (House Bill 62 / HB 62)

Learn about changes to the expiration and return periods for marriage licenses / certificates in Oklahoma, and updates to the minister registration process for wedding officiants in the state. (House Bill 3075 / HB 3075 )

We’ve added a sweet bilingual wedding ceremony script in Spanish and English to our script library! It contains a heartfelt invocation, written vows, a passage from Corinithians (Corintios) on the nature of love, and a romantic ring exchange.

5 sweet, inexpensive, and romantic ways to get married without a wedding ceremony. Whether you want to elope alone, invite a few guests, or skip straight to signing the marriage license, these ideas offer creative alternatives that feel just right!

From galactic glamor to sexy lightsabers and themed costumes: Celebrity wedding inspiration from Frankie Grande and Hale Leon surprise Star Wars Wedding Ceremony, hosted May the 4th (be with you) in Boca Raton, Florida.

Learn about the new electronic e-file system for marriage license applications in US Virgin Islands, announced in a press release last week by the Judicial Branch.

A Philadelphia couple got married aboard a moving SEPTA train with the help of a resourceful wedding officiant and 50 happy guests, before celebrating with a brass band for their first dance at Suburban Station. Would you perform this wedding ceremony?

Attention wedding officiants: Surprising survey reveals most couples want to sign a marriage license without a wedding ceremony, prefer fewer guests and a small ceremony, and are uncomfortable taking vows in front of a crowd. We unpack these results and more, in the American Marriage Ministries Spring 2022 Couples Survey.

Looking for short, romantic wedding readings? These 3 love poems are a sweet addition to any wedding ceremony script or wedding vows, by poet Pablo Neruda in Spanish and translated English. Great for non religious, bilingual, or alternative weddings, and more!

We predict what Britney Spears and Sam Asghari secret wedding will look like, including who the pair will ask to officiate their ceremony, and give you tips on how to plan your own secret elopement!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

Despite the COVID-19 most couples are still getting married with smaller ceremonies, presenting an opportunity for wedding officiants to help create memorable moments.

Companies are using fear to sell virtual alternatives to in-person activities, but when it comes to wedding ceremonies, there's no substitute for the real deal.

American Marriage Ministries is still open and offering online ordination and ordination credentials during the COVID-19 shutdown in compliance with CDC and Washington State regulations.