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9 Modern Ways to Preserve Your Wedding Bouquet

These artist-owned small businesses are giving floral preservation a fresh new look! The wedding bouquet as we know it dates back to the...

3 Reasons Venues Should Partner with an Officiant Coach in 2023

1. More couples are choosing a friend to officiate their wedding Even before the pandemic popularized smaller, intimate weddings, more...

Alternatives to the Unity Candle

(That don't appropriate rituals from other cultures.) First, what's a unity candle? The unity candle is a simple wedding ritual that...

A Taylor Swift Inspired Wedding Ceremony Script

Taylor Swift has been crafting a love story with her fans since she first captured our hearts with "Love Story." Her songs have been...

Four ways to go above and beyond as a first-time officiant

More couples are choosing a friend or family member to officiate their ceremony, but officiating a wedding can be stressful—even for the...

Why more couples are choosing a friend to officiate their wedding

Fifteen years ago, it was practically unheard of to have a friend officiate your wedding. But as culture shifts, so do wedding trends,...

How to tell if a vendor is LGBTQ+ friendly before meeting with them

Part of the fun of planning a wedding (and let’s be honest, it’s not all fun!) is meeting with vendors and imagining different...

Not-So-Royal Wedding Inspiration

Wedding traditions from countries colonized by the British Empire. Photos from Queen Elizabeth II’s 1947 wedding to Prince Philip have...

Introducing a new way to plan your wedding...

Couples are rewriting the script on marriage. I'm rewriting their ceremony scripts to match. Couples have more choices than ever when it...