AMM's Signature Wedding Officiant Package and Will You Marry Us? Gift Box have new packaging! These boxes are packed with everything you need to officiate a wedding, and to ask a friend of family member to be your wedding officiant. From our Officiant Stole to your ordained minister credentials.

The inaugural Inclusive Awareness Conference hosted by the National Gay Wedding Association (NGWA) invites LGBTQ+ wedding officiants, industry pros, and other like-minded experts to meet, mingle, learn, advocate, and inspire. Coming January 2022.

Learn about the Naming Ceremony tradition for adults at any stage of life, and how Celebrants and Officiants create space for authentic identity through this important ritual. Like christenings and zeved habat, naming ceremonies are part of both spiritual and secular traditions.

Which states still allow online virtual weddings? See what’s changing as executive orders expire during the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic, plus the future of online marriage license applications and appointments, remote ceremony requirements, and more, as we head into the 2022, 2023 wedding boom and beyond.

Learn how to officiate a wedding for an inmate incarcerated at a Washington State correctional facility, including guidance on visitor dress codes, minister credentials like the Ordination Certificate and Letter of Good Standing, and other important tips for prison wedding officiants.

Press release for American Marriage Ministries' Wedding Officiants Gift Box

Learn how to write your own wedding vows using the Five Love Languages : Acts of Service, Receiving Gifts, Quality Time, Words of Affirmation, and Physical Touch. With examples and sample scripts for your wedding ceremony script! This creative approach shows you how to create original, moving vows that will speak to the heart.

Learn about the differences between American Ministries and American Marriage Ministries (AMM), and about online ordination to become a minister to perform marriage for friends and family.

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

Learn about a new civil license to solemnize marriage in Hawaii, get access to current Hawaii marriage laws, and read how ministers ordained online through American Marriage Ministries can register to become wedding officiants in the state.

As online weddings become a regular part of the industry landscape and metaverse conversation trends, some couples wonder if they can legally get married in a video game wedding. AMM explains state requirements for holding a remote video-conference ceremony and more.

Learn about upcoming changes to Chicago and Illinois marriage license requirements and online weddings, as Executive Orders issued during the coronavirus COVID 19 crisis expire. (E.O. 2020-36 ; NO. 34 ; 2021-28 ; NO. 93 )

This new fall wedding ceremony script captures the colors, romance, and joyful spirit of the autumn season, with a warm welcome to guests, moment of mindfulness, nature-inspired blessing, and a unique reading from the popular Neil Young song “Harvest Moon.” An original non-religious, non traditional wedding script written by AMM Minister Officiant Sherri Crawford, perfect for September, October, and November weddings.

We’ll see you at Wedding MBA 2022! The team from American Marriage Ministries is attending this year’s November Wedding Pro Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, which gathers together wedding officiants, planners, and other professionals and vendors from all over the world. We'll be sponsoring the Officiant track and a fun meet and greet afterwards. Join us!

This original wedding ceremony script the popular African American wedding tradition of ‘jumping the broom’, a traditional exchange of wedding vows and rings, sweet words on marriage and new beginnings, an explanation of the symbolism and meaning behind the wedding broom ritual, and more. Written by ordained AMM Minister Raquel Solomon.

There’s a new original wedding ceremony script in the AMM library! This officiant script celebrates free-spirited and non-traditional love, equality, independence, respect, freedom, and true partnership in marriage. Written by ordained minister, officiant, and songwriter Karen E. Reynolds.

A sweet memorial ceremony script with sample wording for a bubble release or flower floating ceremony, written by AMM Minister Michelle Rojas. This sample speech is a great eco-friendly alternative to a traditional memorial balloon release, to capture the memory of the deceased and bring friends and family closer together. It includes a simple welcome, a heartfelt eulogy speech, a moment of remembrance, a bubble release / flower floating ceremony, and a sweet conclusion.

Creative vow ideas for your vow renewal ceremony! Choose from 10 vow examples to renew your marriage commitment, celebrate a wedding anniversary, marriage renewal, or second wedding ceremony. Use these sample vows as-is or as inspiration when writing your own vows, whether they be short and sweet, funny, child or family oriented, or romantic and heartfelt. Plus links to free full length vow renewal scripts.