Wedding Script #7

 

In this ceremony, Groom and Bride have called us together to make a public declaration of the private commitment they have already made to one another. They are binding themselves together as a new family.


Marriage is the promise of hope between two people who love each other, who honor each other as individuals, and who wish to unite their lives and share the future together. In this ceremony, they dedicate themselves to the happiness and well-being of each other, in a union of mutual caring and responsibility.  Two people in love do not live in isolation. Their love is a source of strength with which they may nourish each other. By our steadfast care, respect, and love, we can support their marriage and thus we can participate in the union they are creating today.

Groom and Bride are here surrounded by friends and family. Some people here have known you your entire lives and some for a only a few years, but no matter how long or in what circumstances they know you, I can guarantee that everyone here knows what remarkable individuals and what a remarkable couple you are. As individuals, you are remarkable for the breadth and passion of your interests and for the fact that you both have an extraordinary understanding about who you are and what you stand for. As individuals you have shined throughout all of your unique and colorful endeavors. That might have been enough, even had you never found one another, but you did find one another and this is cause for further celebration, because as a couple you are able to bring out the best in one another. You have the opportunity to create a relationship that is beautiful, original, and meaningful. You’ve impacted each other and those who surround you on this happy day. Now we surround you, Bride and Groom, and return the favor with our good wishes and our loving thoughts, as you state your intentions and declare your commitment to one another.


And now a reading from Bride and Groom’s friend, Friend’s name.
Insert reading here.


Marriage Statement:

Bride and Groom, marriage challenges us to share the same journey without abandoning the truth of our individuality; to not lose ourselves in one another, but rather walk side by side, heading in the same direction. As with all relationships, marriage is an endless presentation of choices about how we want to be with one another.


Always protect, affirm, and support each other, and be brave about sharing your vulnerabilities. Always remember that your friendship and the shared values of respect, honesty and trust are the reason that you have chosen to build a life together. Enjoy the intertwining of your independence with your intimacy. I wish you the courage to keep your hearts open to each other for the rest of your lives.

Vows: (repeat after officiant)

I, (name), take you, (name) to be my partner.
I love you for who you are, for who you might become, and for who I am when I am with you.
I adore you for being (name) and you can count on me to always be on your side.
I will respect you as an individual and an equal and I will always try to be worthy of your love and respect.
I promise to delight with you in happiness and comfort you in sorrow, through all our years and in all that life may bring us.

Ring Ceremony:

This is the point in the ceremony when I usually talk about the wedding bands being a perfect circle, having no beginning and no end. But we all know that these rings do have a beginning. Rock is dug up from the earth. Metal is liquefied in a furnace at a thousand degrees. Hot metal is poured into a mold, cooled, and then painstakingly polished. Something beautiful is made from raw elements.

Love is like that. It comes from humble beginnings, made by imperfect beings. It’s the process of making something beautiful where there was once nothing at all.

With that in mind, may we have the rings?

Groom, place the ring on Bride’s finger and repeat after me:

With this ring / I thee wed / and pledge my life with yours.

Bride, place the ring on Groom’s finger and repeat after me:

With this ring / I thee wed / and pledge my life with yours.

No one but you can declare yourselves married. You have begun it here today in speaking your vows before your family and friends and you will do it again in the days and years to come, standing by each other, sharing all that is sweet and bitter in life. Each tender act, each loving word will be the declaration of what was made here today.


By the authority vested in me by the State of _____, it is my pleasure to pronounce you, spouses for life.

Please seal your vows with a kiss.

Families and friends, it is with great pleasure I present Groom and Bride for the first time as a married couple.

 

Wedding Script #8: Love’s Journey

Welcome family and friends

Today is a day of celebration. It is the day that ______ & _______ have asked us to join them to witness and celebrate with them their wedding, the day of joining two lives into one. It is a day of uniting family and friends, it is day where we can take time from our busy lives, to celebrate and rejoice together such a beautiful heartfelt occasion.

 

Address:

_______ & _________ take a moment to look around at your family and friends. They are here not because you invited them; they could have declined your invitation. They are here because of love. Being in love is not when you think you are. It’s when the people around you can tell, and all of your family and friends can tell you are in love. They are here to witness the magic of love, the exchanging of rings, your vows of commitment to each other and to continue to provide you both with support and guidance as you begin your new journey in life as husband and wife.

 

You are two friends who decided to journey together towards a common destination called marriage. Before you began this journey remember there will be days, when one of you will want to walk along the mountain path, while the other may prefer the valley, but always come together at the end of the day and share your experiences. There will be days when one will want to sing and dance, while the other will prefer to travel in quietness, so you will choose different paths, but take time to meet at the close of the day and be content sharing your experiences. There will be days when one may want to rest, while the other may want to move further along the path, but at the right time you will come together and be happy that each has fulfilled their own needs. There will be days when you shall travel together as one as like today your wedding day. If you can respect the other's need while still fulfilling your own, then your journey together will be an experience to rejoice in.

 

In just a few moments you're going to say your vows to one another. Before we do that I would like to share a reading with you.

 

Wedding Reading: You share the joy of a deep commitment and a sacred trust, and you have given each other the most precious gift of love. Treasure it, nurture it and encourage it with all the honesty you used in creating it.  You are sharing something rare and beautiful.  Always speak the truth and listen attentively so that you may understand each other’s thoughts and intentions.  Inspire each other by sharing your accomplishments.  Say I love you often to retain the warmth between you. Laugh a lot too, even when you are angry. Remember you are each other’s best friend. Stand together and for each other always.  May each day be a blessing and the fulfillment of your dreams.

 

Vows : Choose 1

And now, in the presence of these guests we join this loving couple in marriage.

Vows: (Choose One)

Option 1: Your Own Vows

Option 2: I Do Vows:

(Groom) do you take (Bride) to be your wife, to live together in holy matrimony? To love, honor, and cherish her, to keep her in sickness and in health, for as long as you both shall live?

(Bride), do you take (Groom) to be your husband, to live together in holy matrimony? To love, honor, and cherish him, to keep him in sickness and in health, for as long as you both shall live?

Option 3: Repeat After Vows:

(Groom), repeat after me: I (groom), take you (bride) to be my wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do us part.

(Bride), repeat after me: I (Bride), take you (Groom) to be my husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do us part.

 

Rings:

May I have the rings?

Since these rings are symbols of the marriage, the circle of love that never ends, whenever you look at it, remember this joyous day and the vows we've made here today.

 

(Groom), take( Bride’s) ring and put it on her finger, and repeat after me: With this ring I thee wed.

 

(Bride) put the ring on (Groom’s) finger and repeat after me: With this ring I thee wed.

 

Pronouncement:

________and _________ have declared before us today your commitment to each other, and having symbolized your marriage with the exchanging of rings.

 

By the power vested in me I pronounce ______ & ________ as husband and wife.

 

You may kiss each other for the first time as husband and wife!

 

Introduction

I would like to introduce to you Mr. & Mrs. ____________