Editorial standards
How our guides are made
How the guides are written, what they are checked against before they publish, who reads them, and what to do when you find something wrong.
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How a guide is made
Each guide is drafted with the help of AI writing tools. Before it can publish, it is checked automatically, and it does not go out until it passes:
- Banned claimsNo promise of savings, no claim about what couples or vendors in general do, and no legal advice. A guide that says one of these cannot publish.
- No invented numbersNo statistics, averages or typical prices. A worked example is labeled as an illustration, not a customer result, and its arithmetic has to add up to the cent.
- LengthA short answer of 35 to 80 words at the top, at least four sections and four common questions, and enough depth to be worth reading: 850 words or more.
- Official sources for local rulesA guide about a license, a name change or marrying abroad states no fee, waiting period or document list as a rule. It sends you to the office that sets them.
The same checks run again on any later change to a guide, so a revision is held to the rules the first version was.
Review
Nick McCandless is the guides’ reviewer. A guide shows the date he read it once he has read it.
A review belongs to the version he read. When a guide is revised in substance, its review date comes off until he reads it again. A guide with no review date has not been reviewed yet, and says nothing to suggest it has.
Sources
- Rules that differ by place, such as marriage licenses, name changes and tax, point to the official office and are never stated as fact.
- Examples are labeled illustrations, never customer results.
- No market statistics.
The free tools work from what you enter, and show how they get from your entries to the result. How each tool calculates sets it out, tool by tool.
Independence
- No paid placement.
- No vendor recommendations or rankings.
- No affiliate links.
- No vendor pays us to appear, and we take no commission or referral fee.
Dates
A guide shows the day it was published. Its Updated date changes only for a substantive revision, a change to what it tells you, and not for a typo or a layout fix.
Corrections
If something in a guide is wrong, email help@weddingremedy.com. We correct what is wrong and change the Updated date when the change is substantive.
What the guides are not
Wedding Remedy is not a law firm and does not provide legal, tax, or financial advice. The guides help you read your own paperwork and plan; they do not decide what an agreement means. Read the disclaimer.