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Today
is the day. While committed to each
other in mind, body and spirit, you have come together to join as husband and
wife. Marriage is on the most
important obligations that any two people commit to in their lifetime.
It offers the greatest of challenges to overcome, but in return marriage
gives us love, strength and support from one another.
A
good marriage is dependent upon many factors, the most important being a strong
bond of friendship and respect for one another.
Your Love for each other will grow deeper with the passing of each day,
but genuine liking for each other, the willingness to accept each other’s
strengths and weaknesses, with understanding and respect, is the foundation for
a strong marriage and a good life together.
You
are my heart’s twin.
My
first thought in the morning
And
my last thought at night.
You
are my soul’s mirror,
The
only one who truly understands
How
it is with me.
I
wish I could put into words
the
depth of my feeling.
When
I think about
The
good times we’ve shared
And
yes, the difficult one, too,
I
feel simply and quietly grateful
To
have found you.
The
vows exchanged today are promises of the eternal love you pledge to each other.
The words spoken are expressions of what you feel in your hearts and
souls and will bond the two of you together forever.
_______,
will you have _______ to be your wedded wife?
Will you love her, comfort her, honor and keep her, in sickness and in
health, in sorrow and in joy, and, forsaking all others, be faithful to her from
this day forward?
_______,
I will.
_______,
will you have _______ to be your wedded husband?
Will you love him, comfort him, honor and keep him, in sickness and in
health, in sorrow and in joy, forsaking all others, be faithful to him from this
day forward?
_______,
I will.
________,
please repeat after me. I,
________, take you _________ to be
my wife / To love and cherish, / For better or for worse / For richer / For
poorer / In sickness and in health, / I promise to be your lover, /
Your companion and partner in life / and above all, your best friend.
What
symbols do you offer in honor of this marriage?
[________ presents rings] The
circle of these rings is a symbol of love freely given, love that has no
beginning and no end.
________,
place the ring on _______’s finger, and repeat after me:
“With
this ring, a symbol of my love I hereby join my life with yours.”
________,
place the ring on _______’s finger, and repeat after me:
“With
this ring, a symbol of my love I hereby join my life with yours.”
Now
you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter to the other.
Now
you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now
there will be no loneliness, for now you are two persons as one.
But
there is only one life before you, go now into the world, to enter into the days
of your togetherness.
May
your years together be good and long upon the Earth, and may all that is
beautiful and true abide in you forever.
Break glass here...?
_______
and _______ having chosen each other from the many men and women of the Earht,
and having made your pledges to each other before this gathering, I do, by the
power vested in me by the laws of the State of California, pronounce you husband
and wife. You may kiss the bride.
May I present to you _______ and _________ _________.
Choice #2
We
have come together today to share in a happy and joyous occasion, the marriage
of _________-. Each of you has
given something of yourselves to their lives.
It is therefore fitting that the union of their love be celebrated in
your presence before the ocean, which brought them together.
The
vows exchanged today are promises of the eternal love that you pledge to each
other. The words spoken are
expressions of what you feel in your hearts and souls and will bond you together
forever.
________,
do you have ______ to be your wedded wife? Will you love her, comfort her, honor
and keep her, in sickness and in health, in sorrow and in joy, and forsaking all
others, be faithful only to her from this day forward?
______ do
you have _______ to be your wedded husband? Will you love him, comfort him,
honor and keep him, in sickness and in health, in sorrow and in joy, and
forsaking all others, be faithful only to him from this day forward?
________,
repeat after me:
I _______
take you ______, to be my wedded wife to have and to hold, for better or for
worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to live and to cherish
from this day forward, I pledge you my love.
Staci,
repeat after me:
I
Staci take you Mitchell, to be my wedded husband to have and to hold, for better
or for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to
cherish from this day forward, I pledge you my love
______,
do you have the rings to symbolize this union of ______ and ________.
_______,
repeat after me:
In
token and in pledge of my constant faith and abiding love with this ring I thee
wed.
_______,
repeat after me:
In
token and in pledge of my constant faith and abiding love with this ring I thee
wed.
Now
you will feel no rain for each of you will be shelter to the other
Now
you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other.
May
your life together be good and long upon the earth and may all that is beautiful
and true abide in you forever
Ladies and Gentlemen, May I present to you: _______ and ______ _________, Husband and Wife
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