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When is it Ok to Wear Black to a Wedding?

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Cheese Themed Wedding? These 3 Tips Make Planning a Brie’ze

Planning a cheese themed wedding? Use these 3 simple tips to incorporate your favorite cheeses into your wedding ceremony, from choosing a wedding venue, to adding flavor to the ceremony script, with examples of cheese puns, wedding vows, and creative ideas for your unity ceremony and cake.

Metaverse Weddings Give Us a New Way to Honor Deceased Loved Ones

Metaverse Weddings Give Us a New Way to Honor Deceased Loved Ones

Metaverse weddings offer engaged couples a unique way to honor deceased loved ones through the use of virtual avatars. As virtual, augmented, and mixed reality wedding ceremonies become more mainstream, holograms, super-imposed digital photographs, and other technology can inspire new, modern rituals to remember ancestors and relatives who have died.

Pixel-Perfect Inspiration from 5 Metaverse and Video Game Weddings

Pixel-Perfect Inspiration from 5 Metaverse and Video Game Weddings

Inspiration from real weddings to help you plan a metaverse wedding or vow renewal, or a virtual commitment ceremony in your favorite video game. 5 one-of-a-kind creative ceremony examples from the Metaverse, Second Life, and Animal Crossing.

3 Ways to Thank Wedding Officiants (That Don't Cost You a Thing)

3 Ways to Thank Wedding Officiants (That Don't Cost You a Thing)

Need the perfect gift for your wedding officiant? Looking for a way to say thank you that won't break the bank? These 3 ideas are creative, easy, and free ways to show your appreciation.

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How to Start a Website for Your Wedding Officiant Business

Learn how to start a website for your wedding officiant business or update your existing site, with helpful tips for what to include and a review of the easiest web building and hosting platforms with free and affordable options.

How to Get Married in New Mexico - Planning a wedding in the Land of Enchantment

How to Get Married in New Mexico - Planning a wedding in the Land of Enchantment

A step-by-step guide to getting married in New Mexico - from finding an officiant and choosing a wedding venue, to how to apply for, complete, and return your New Mexico marriage license.

Which fun wedding innovations will follow ‘Hitched at the Honda Center’?

Which fun wedding innovations will follow ‘Hitched at the Honda Center’?

What new trends will the new year’s wedding boom bring? Looking forward to unique elopements, drive thru weddings, and creative officiants, after the OC Innovation Award goes to ‘Hitched at the Honda Center’ for making it fun and easy to get a marriage license or civil wedding in California during the coronavirus pandemic.

Virtual marriage services now available in Orange County, CA

Virtual marriage services now available in Orange County, CA

The Orange County Clerk-Recorder office announced that virtual marriage services are now available to engaged couples in the county. California is one of several states to offer virtual services during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, as the number of cases of COVID-19 rise.

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The Shortest Wedding Ceremony Script Possible

Looking for a short wedding script? How about the shortest wedding ceremony script ever? This simple script is only 200 characters, making it short enough to tweet! It includes a Declaration of Intent and the wedding officiant’s Pronouncement.

We predict Megan Fox & Machine Gun Kelly’s wedding will include this ritual…

We predict Megan Fox & Machine Gun Kelly’s wedding will include this ritual…

Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly got engaged, and celebrated by drinking each other's blood. It has us wondering, What will their wedding ceremony look like? We predict a blood ritual! Plus, learn a few ways blood has been used as part of the marriage rite over the years, from Vikings, to pagan handfastings, to vampires, to that time Angelina and Billy Bob were married.

How to Take the Plunge with an Underwater Wedding Ceremony

How to Take the Plunge with an Underwater Wedding Ceremony

Plan an inspired underwater wedding ceremony with this helpful how-to guide! From finding an officiant, choosing a venue or diving location, scuba gear and equipment needs, exchanging vows, legal requirements, and more!

How to Get Your Wedding Published in a Magazine or Blog

How to Get Your Wedding Published in a Magazine or Blog

Everything you need to know to get your real wedding submission accepted and published in wedding magazines, blogs, websites, and social media, by following these important suggestions. How to get your wedding published - for engaged couples and newlyweds!

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Asked to Officiate a Wedding?

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

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Wedding Officiants: This Quiz Tells You Which Muppet You Are, Based on Your Officiating Style

Wedding Officiants: This Quiz Tells You Which Muppet You Are, Based on Your Officiating Style

A Muppet personality quiz for wedding officiants, based on how you officiate a wedding ceremony! Do couples see you as a Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Animal, Fozzie, or Beaker? Are you a lovable Grouch in disguise? 10 simple questions will answer the question, "Which Muppet Am I?," when it comes to planning and officiating a ceremony!

This Quiz tells You Which Kind of Wedding Officiant is Best for Your Ceremony

This Quiz tells You Which Kind of Wedding Officiant is Best for Your Ceremony

This short 5 question quiz will help you choose the best type of wedding officiant for your ceremony, based on your wedding budget, dream venue, religious or spiritual values, personal style and more. A simple way to decide between a professional wedding officiant, local clergy, or asking a friend or family member to get ordained online to marry you.

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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!

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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!

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!

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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Religion and Rituals Articles

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American Marriage Ministries Incorporated in Tennessee as a Non-Profit Corp.

American Marriage Ministries is now incorporated in Tennessee as a non-profit corporation to ensure recognition of our ministers.

AMM to Provide In-Person Ordination in Tennessee for All Ministers affected by New Marriage Law

AMM to Provide In-Person Ordination in Tennessee for All Ministers affected by New Marriage Law

American Marriage Ministries will be providing FREE on-site minister ordination so that you can officiate weddings in Tennessee, in compliance with the state’s new marriage laws.

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An Open Letter to Members of the Tennessee Legislature

An open letter from American Marriage Ministries to the Tennessee legislature protesting a restrictive new marriage law.

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