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Paul: We are gathered here today to celebrate one of life's greatest moments, to give recognition to the worth and beauty of love, and to add our best wishes to the words that shall unite [Bride] and [Groom] in marriage.
Love
Mingling in marriage is a mutual dedication, a cooperative venture in every sense. It is a relationship based on love, respect, and a determination by both partners to adjust to each other and support one another, in health and in sickness, in joy and in sadness, in ease and in hardship.
Through this co-operation, we give ourselves, our lives and love. into the hands of the one we love. We do so trustingly and generously. And so, each of us receives a gift: the life and love of the other. We receive this gift, not only from the one we love, but also from the parents who brought us into the world, and from our friends and families as well.
And so as you begin this new family life together, you will begin on a path where you will walk together. May it be a path of blessedness, bright with flowers of prosperity and spiritual awakening; a path of ever deepening, ever broadening love that you will travel, arm in arm. through out eternity.
The Commitment
[Bride] and Groom this celebration is the outward token of your sacred and inward union of hearts, which the church and temple may bless, and the state make legal, but which neither state nor church can create nor annul. It is a union created by your loving purpose and kept by your abiding will. It is in this spirit and for this purpose that you have come here to be joined together.
Vows
[Groom], do you, take [Bride] to be your wife? Do you promise to love, honor, cherish and protect her, forsaking all others and holding only onto her?
[Groom]: I do.
Paul: [Bride], do you, take [Groom] to be your
husband? Do you promise to love, honor, cherish and protect him,
forsaking all others and holding only onto him?
[Bride]: I do.
Ring Symbolism
[Groom] repeating after Paul: I [Groom], take you
[Bride] as my wife. To have and to hold, in sickness and in health,
for richer and for poorer, in joy and in sorrow. I promise my love to
you.
[Bride] repeating after Paul: I [Bride], take you
[Groom] as my husband. To have and to hold, in sickness and in
health, for richer and for poorer, in joy and in sorrow. I promise my
love to you.
Pronouncement
Inasmuch as you have consented together in this ceremony to live in wedlock and have sealed your vows by the giving of these rings, it gives me great pleasure to pronounce that you are now husband and wife.
You may embrace!
Congratulations to you Mr. and Mrs. GroomFull