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Report: Couples Owe $3.7 Billion for Canceled or Postponed COVID Weddings

November 5th, 2020

A new report says that 225,000 couples owe a combined 3.7 billion in loans for COVID-related wedding cancelations or postponements. That's about $16,500 per couple - all for weddings that might not even happen.

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Bucking Gender Norms, Couple Flips Coin to Choose Last Name

January 17th, 2020

Unsure of what to do with their last names when they married, a Florida couple left it up to chance and flipped a coin. Jeff Ward, who took his wife's name, said it was "a good step towards an equal partnership."

Political & Religious Controversy 11 Comments

Mississippi Wedding Venue Turns Away Mixed Race Couple, Citing Christian Beliefs

September 4th, 2019

After learning that her brother and his fiancée had been turned down by a wedding venue in their small Mississippi hometown, Lakambria Welch thought there must have been a mistake. She drove down to Boone's Camp Event Hall in Booneville, MS to sort things out with the owner. But Welch couldn’t have been prepared for the conversation that followed.

LGBTQ & Human Rights 78 Comments

Tongue Tied? Try the Wedding Ceremony Script Generator

September 30th, 2015

The Wedding Ceremony Script Generator is a free online tool that you can take advantage of at any time that will craft a service with all the things you wanted to say but didn't know how.

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The Marriage Fight in Alabama

February 27th, 2015

Years ago, Alabama, like many states, took a stand for conservative Biblical principles by defining marriage as being between one man and one woman. That's why for proponents of marriage equality, it was almost too good to be true when a federal judge recently

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The Rise of the Themed Wedding

June 20th, 2014

Imagine you are performing a wedding and the bride and groom roll up in a Delorean in a Back to the Future-inspired wedding. Extravagant props like this have become the centerpieces of themed weddings.

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How to Perform a Wedding Ceremony

May 12th, 2014

A person asked to perform a wedding ceremony may be overwhelmed by the process and not quite know where to start. Worry no more, we're here to help out, in three simple steps.

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The Wedding Vow: Ever Changing Pledge of Devotion

April 9th, 2014

“To have and to hold”. “To love and to cherish”. Such phrases have left an indelible mark on our understanding of what it means to unite in holy matrimony, at least in Western Christianity.

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Wedding Bells Ring at “Vegas of the Midwest”

February 18th, 2014

Do people spend too much money on weddings? The alternative for many is the drive-through “quickie” style of weddings performed at places like A Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas.

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ULC Ministers Join in “Robot Wedding” Trend

January 31st, 2014

How would you like your wedding officiant to be C-3PO, the saucer-eyed bronze-plated android from Star Wars? Perhaps you would prefer to have his counterpart, the garbage-bin-shaped R2-D2, as your ring-bearer. The concept is not as far-fetched as it may seem.

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