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Top Ten Tips for a Wedding Your Guests Will Enjoy

Top Ten Tips for a Wedding Sure, your wedding promises to be one of the greatest days of your life, but what about your guests? A wedding is a party, after all, and as such, the hosts have a responsibility to attend t ...

Category: Get Ordained Wedding Planning

How to Take a Look at Your Child’s Future Spouse

The saying goes, "You don't get a second chance at a first impression," but when it comes to your children's chosen partners, you might cut them a little slack. Maybe he wields a toothpick a little too energetically at ...

Category: Marriage

How to Have Your Best Argument Ever

Some of the least helpful, most misguided advice newly married couples receive is, "Don't go to bed angry." There may be good reason why this old sawhorse is pulled out again and again. It aligns with the magical think ...

Category: Marriage

Finding the Right Words in Difficult Moments

Proximity to death leaves many people tongue-tied. It can be extremely challenging to try to think of an appropriate thing to say to someone who is dying or grieving. Nevertheless, a kind word may go a long way to comf ...

Category: Get Ordained Funeral

Baptism News From Around the Globe

Pope Francis may be credited with drawing more international attention to religious news, but he is not the only figure making the headlines these days. Baptism has received more press recently and from a variety of de ...

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Managing Stress for Funeral Workers

Funeral directors manage upward of 150 tasks per service, and often multiple services per day. According to Kate Hamilton of Mourning Cross Bereavement Pins, who conducted a survey among 57 funeral directors, the perso ...

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Funeral Pyres Burn Continuously After Nepal Quake

The recent major earthquake in Nepal has impacted thousands of lives across the country. In Katmandu alone, over 800 people have died in a quake that measured 7.8 on the Richter scale. As in any catastrophe, great ener ...

Category: Get Ordained Funeral

Revised Wedding Etiquette Rules for the 21st Century

Sure, monograms and de rigueur ecru linen invitations may be quaint relics of the past (or as rare as hens' teeth), but in modern day nuptials, some rules still apply. Wedding etiquette is less about being persnickety ...

Category: Wedding Planning

Chinese Officials at Odds With Funeral Strippers

Funerals are seeing an unprecedented rise in attendance in rural China, and officials in the Ministry of Culture are not happy about it. In the past several years, the presence of exotic dancers at funeral services has ...

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When Women Make More Money

Jane Austen famously penned, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." This so-called universal truth continues to have deep roots today, ev ...

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