OFFICIANT COUNSEL
PUBLIC DECLARATION
PRESENTATION OF THE BRIDE
WORDS ON MARRIAGE
DEFINITION OF LOVE
GROOM
BRIDE
PERSONAL STATEMENTS
WELL WISHING
DECLARATION
FIRST KISS
INTRODUCTION
Friends and family of the BRIDE and GROOM, welcome and thank you for being here on this important day. We are gathered together to celebrate the very special LOVE between Groom and Bride, by joining them in marriage.
Marriage is an act of faith and it requires great love and complete trust to pledge oneself to share one's life with just one person forsaking all others.
All of us need and desire to love and to be loved. And the highest from of love between and man and a woman is in a monogamous relationship where neither one has any desire to be with anyone else.
OFFICIANT COUNSEL
OFFICIANT: To make your relationship work will take more than LOVE. It will take TRUST, and knowing in your HEART that you want only the best for each other.
While love is our natural state of BEING, the qualities of TRUST, DEDICATION and FAITH must be developed. REMEMBER to always give respect to one another even when you disagree, bear with each other's weaknessess, COMFORT each other in times of trouble and sorrow, WORK with generous hearts to provide for the material needs of each other and you household. And help one another experience SPIRITUAL, MENTAL, EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL comfort. Putting this type of effort into your relationship will guarantee that your love will last.
PUBLIC DECLARATION
OFFICIANT TO GROOM: Is it your intent to devote all of yourself to Bride and to Bride only in marriage? Yes
OFFICIANT TO BRIDE: Is it your intent to devote all of yourself to Groom and to Groom only in marriage? Yes
PRESENTATION OF THE BRIDE
OFFICIANT TO BRIDE: Who stands here with you today?
OFFICIANT TO FATHER (or mother, brother etc.) Do you agree with and support you daughter's decision to be married to this man?
(Bride and Groom join together in front of minister.)
WORDS ON MARRIAGE
Marriage is going to give you a whole new way to SHARE your lives together as you stand to face the WORLD hand in hand.
Marriage is always challenging. You will need all of your STRENGTH, COURAGE, PATIENCE, and a really good sense of humor will help! When you love someone, you will be LOYAL to them, you will always BELIEVE in them, always see the best in them, and always STAND your ground in defending them.
Marriage makes burdens lighter because you divide them. Marriage makes joys intense because you share them. And marriage makes you stronger so you can be involved with life in ways you dare not risk alone.
DEFINITION OF LOVE
It is written that LOVE is patient, love is KIND, It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil. Love REJOICES in good. And love can stand to know the TRUTH. Love always PROTECTS, always trusts, always HOPES, and always PERSERVERES. Love never fails.
Let you marriage be a time of waking each morning and falling in love all over again.
MARRIAGE VOWS
OFFICIANT: You marriage begins with the vows and promise you speak to one another today. Are you ready to speak your vows?
GROOM'S VOWS