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Getting Hitched in New England: Navigating Marriage Laws in Connecticut and Rhode Island
This is part three in a series about useful information about the legal requirements surrounding your wedding ceremony. If you stumbled...

Zach Michaud
Mar 4, 20245 min read
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Getting Hitched in New England: Navigating Marriage Laws in New Hampshire and Vermont
This is part two in a series about useful information about the legal requirements surrounding your wedding ceremony. If you stumbled...

Zach Michaud
Mar 4, 20245 min read
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Getting Hitched in New England: Navigating Marriage Laws in Maine and Massachusetts
If you stumbled across this blog, it means you are likely engaged. Congratulations! Additionally, you are planning to have your wedding...

Zach Michaud
Mar 4, 20244 min read
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ATTENTION COUPLES: Keep Calm on Wedding Day with These De-Stressors
Ask any married couple what was the most stressful day of their lives, and a good showing of them will tell you it was their wedding day....

Zach Michaud
Jan 22, 20245 min read
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Celebrating My Move
As of the first week of November, Old Ways Ceremonies moved from Portland, Oregon back to its roots in Maine. My roots in Maine, that is....

Zach Michaud
Nov 27, 20235 min read
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Queerly, I Do.
This post is for all of my friends of Dorothy. And no, I do not mean my step-mom who is a devoted Wizard of Oz fan. Hi Darcy! No, I'm...

Zach Michaud
Apr 18, 20239 min read
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Marriage as Soul of Wedding Ceremony
If you are reading this, you are probably getting married soon. Congratulations! Have you thought about the ceremony itself? Perhaps your...

Zach Michaud
Jan 18, 20234 min read
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Dancing Away In Tears
I love disco music! There, I said it. I like sad disco music because it's a sad you can boogie to. It's hopeful that the sadness will...

Zach Michaud
Aug 3, 20225 min read
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Why Pick Your Officiant Early?
According to The Wedding Report’s nationwide numbers, COVID-19 has pushed 41.5% of couples who planned a wedding in 2020 to reschedule to...

Zach Michaud
Feb 13, 20216 min read
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Pledging Anti-Racism in the Wedding Industry: Step Up Pledge & Action Plan
To do nothing, to not take some active steps would be to consciously ignore the system at work that was keeping me ignorant for so long.

Zach Michaud
Jul 3, 20203 min read
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Black Lives Matter To Me
Why this post? Because I want to be clear with potential Black clients that I’m attempting to make a space in which you will be seen and...

Zach Michaud
Jun 15, 20207 min read
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Pacific Northwest Weddings During the Pandemic
Where I live, here in Oregon, we have been asked to stay home for almost two months and are being told that things may start to open up...

Zach Michaud
May 10, 20204 min read
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What is the Difference Between an Officiant and a Celebrant?
Celebrants are master co-creators and performers of ceremonies that reflect the needs and beliefs of the people they are honoring.

Zach Michaud
Jan 21, 20203 min read
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