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General Handfasting

Magickal Weddings: Pagan Handfasting Traditions for Your Sacred Union by Joy Ferguson

Handfasted and Heartjoined : Rituals for Uniting a Couple's Hearts and Lives by Maeve, Lady Rhea

How to Have the Wedding You Want (Not the One Everybody Else Wants You to Have) by Danielle Claro

Alternative Weddings Recommended! An Essential Guide for Creating Your Own Ceremony by Jane Ross-MacDonald

The Knot Guide to Wedding Vows and Traditions: Readings, Rituals, Music, Dances, Speeches, and Toasts - It does have some handfastings, an Afro-centric, a Wiccan and an Egyptian + some other useful stuff.

The Ultimate Wedding/Ceremony Workbook For The 'Planning-Impaired'

Weddings by Design: A Guide to the Non-Traditional Ceremony

Your Wedding Your Way

Anti-Bride Guide : Tying the Knot Outside the Box

Green Weddings That Don't Cost the Earth

Into the Garden : A Wedding Anthology by Robert Hass (Editor), Stephen Mitchell (Editor) -source of possible readings.

Cook Books

The two witchy cookbooks below are great! I use Telesco's recipes often. Wood's book also contains medieval recipes. The remaining cookbooks are primarily feasting and medieval in nature.

The Wicca Cookbook: Recipes, Ritual, and Lore by Jamie Wood, Tara Seefeldt

A Kitchen Witch's Cookbook

The Medieval Cookbook

Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony

The Medieval Kitchen: from France and Italy .

Pleyn Delit: Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks

Polyamory, Group Marriage,
Open Relationships, Non-Monogoamy

The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Possibilities by Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt

Three in Love : Menages a Trois from Ancient to Modern Times

Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits : Secrets of Sustainable Intimate Relationships by Deborah M, Dr. Anapol

Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples by Nena O'Neill, George O'Neill

The Lesbian Polyamory Reader: Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Casual Sex

The New Intimacy: Open-Ended Marriage and Alternative Lifestyles

 

Medieval & Theme Weddings

Medieval Celebrations: How to Plan for Holidays, Weddings, and Reenactments With Recipes, Customs, Costumes, Decorations, Songs, Dances, and Games

Storybook Weddings: A Guide to Fun and Romantic Theme Weddings

The Traditional Irish Wedding by Bridget Haggerty

Scottish Tartan Weddings: A Practical Guidebook (Weddings/Marriage) by Eric Merrill Budd -I haven't read this, but I heard from a friend that it includes same-sex unions.

Irish Wedding Traditions: Using Your Irish Heritage to Create the Perfect Wedding by Shannon McMahon-Lichte

Specifically Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans

The Essential Guide to Lesbian and Gay The Essential Guide to Lesbian and Gay Weddings

A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples (10th Ed)

Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit : Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Lore .

Pagan Rites

The Wiccan Book of Ceremonies and Rituals by Patricia Telesco

Rites of Passage : The Pagan Wheel of Life (Llewellyn's Practical Magick Series)by Pauline Campanelli, Dan Campanelli (Illustrator)

Celebrating Times of Change: A Wiccan Book of Shadows for Family and Coven Growth by Stanley J. A. Modrzyk

A Bard's Book of Pagan Songs: Stories and Music from the Celtic World by Hugin the Bard

Magical Rites from the Crystal Well by Ed Fitch

A Book of Pagan Rituals by Herman Slater

 

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