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Four. Witness and
Share the Joy
Minister:
Welcome to the marriage of ____________ and ____________.
You have been asked to gather here to witness and share
in the joy of this union.
Groom:
There was darkness for a long time and then there was light, and
that light was you. Your love has given me wings, and our journey begins
today. I pledge before this assembled company to be your husband from
this day forward. Let us make of our two lives one life. I want you
for today, tomorrow, and forever.
Bride:
I have dreamed my whole life of having someone as wonderful as you
love me the way you do. I give myself to you as your wife, and I promise
here to treasure for all of my days the love we celebrate today. Let
us bring together our lives and find ourselves anew each day.
Minister to Bride:
____________, will you take ____________ as your husband, in happiness
and with patience and understanding, through conflict and tranquility?
Bride:
I will.
Ring is placed on Grooms finger.
Minister to Groom:
____________, will you take ____________ as your wife, in happiness
and with patience and understanding, through conflict and tranquility?
Groom:
I will.
Ring is placed on Brides finger.
Minister:
In the years which shall bring ____________ and ____________ into
greater age and wisdom, we hope that their love shall be ever young;
that they shall be able to always recover from moments of despair. In
this hope, may they keep the vows made on this day, in freedom, teaching
each other who they are, what they yet shall be, enabling them to know
that, in the fullness of being, they are more than themselves and more
than each other, that they are all of us, and that together we share
joyously the fruits of life on this earth, our home.
Inasmuch as ____________ and ____________ have declared
their love to each other before family and friends, I now greet them
with you as husband and wife.
You may kiss.
