Posts Tagged: legal
Your First Steps to Planning a Same-Gender Wedding
Same-gender weddings are legal in all 50 states, but they do come with their own set of special circumstances. From deciding on clothing to vetting vendors, follow these tips to ensure your wedding is flawless!
Category: Wedding Planning
Should Pastors Have Luxury Items?
Mega Church pastors often come under fire for their high salaries, extravagant purchases, and use of private jets. Does their excessive wealth come with God's blessing or should church leaders face closer scrutiny?
Service Animals and Your Wedding: What You Need To Know
If you're inviting a friend or family member who uses a service animal to your wedding, you'll need to do a little extra planning to ensure that you're accommodating them properly and that the venue is fully accessible.
Category: Wedding Planning
The Lowdown on Marriage Licenses: What To Know Before You Apply
The marriage license is the official piece of paper that makes you legally married. Some people find this daunting, but don't worry! Receiving, signing, and turning in the license is simple with a few easy tips.
Category: Wedding Planning
Religion and Work - What’s Professional and What Isn’t?
For the faithful, balancing religion and the workplace can be tough. Many people do not know what is an appropriate display of one's faith at work and what steps over the line into inappropriate conduct.
Category: Faith
Is It Time to Pull the Catholic Church's Tax Exempt Status?
Churches receive tax-exempt status so they can serve their community with fewer financial restrictions. But with recent reports of rampant abuse in the Catholic Church, is it time to pull their tax-exempt status?
Get Married Before Your Wedding? It’s Not as Weird as You May Think
A wedding usually requires a couple, an officiant, a marriage license, and two witnesses. This celebration can also involve a distinctively crafted ceremony, a reception to offer guests hospitality and gratitude, persona ...
Category: Wedding Planning
Asking the Right Questions of Your Officiant
There are a lot of details to consider when putting together your wedding. While a lot of attention is going to be paid to the reception, you also need to think through your ceremony. Since this is the part of your big d ...
Category: Wedding Planning Perform a Wedding
Practical Advice for Newlyweds
Marriage is a funny thing. Though romantic films and fairytales put a lot of odd expectations on love, nothing can really prepare you for what married life is going to be like. In many ways, life will putter on as usual ...
Category: Marriage
Make It Legal: Obtaining Your Marriage License
Planning a wedding can be a lot of work and a lot of fun. Still, there are aspects of the process that can seem less thrilling. Obtaining your marriage license, for example, is something that many couples don’t thi ...
Category: Wedding Planning Marriage