OFFICIANT COUNSEL
PUBLIC DECLARATION
PRESENTATION OF THE BRIDE
WORDS ON MARRIAGE
DEFINITION OF LOVE
GROOM
BRIDE
PERSONAL STATEMENTS
WELL WISHING
DECLARATION
FIRST KISS
INTRODUCTION
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
OFFICIANT: GROOM, do you love BRIDE willingly and completely withholding nothing? Yes
OFFICIANT: GROOM, will give her your deepest consideration of her feelings, desires and needs? Yes
OFFICIANT: Will you be BRIDE's confidant, sweetheart, lover and most importantly, her best friend, from now on?
TRADITIONAL VOWS
OFFICIANT: Please repeat after me, "I, GROOM, take you, BRIDE, to be my wife, to share all that I am, and all that I have, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, for as long as we both shall live."
OFFICIANT: GROOM, do you promise to do all in your power to keep you love deep and strong as it is right now? Yes
GROOM'S PERSONAL STATEMENT
OFFICIANT: What is your personal statement to BRIDE?
BRIDE'S VOWS
OFFICIANT: BRIDE, do you love GROOM willingly and completely withholding nothing? Yes
OFFICIANT: BRIDE, will give him your deepest consideration of his feelings, desires and needs? Yes
OFFICIANT: Will you be GROOM'S confidant, sweetheart, lover and most importantly, his best friend, from now on?
TRADITIONAL VOWS
OFFICIANT: Please repeat after me, "I, BRIDE, take you, GROOM, to be my husband, to share all that I am, and all that I have, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, for as long as we both shall live."
OFFICIANT: BRIDE, do you promise to do all in your power to keep you love deep and strong as it is right now? Yes
BRIDE'S PERSONAL STATEMENT
OFFICIANT: What is your personal statement to GROOM?
PRAYER
Dearest God, I ask that you bless and sanctify the union of these two precious souls, BRIDE & GROOM, as they live in your love, waking and sleeping, working and playing. They ask for wisdom in their lives. Let them find all of those secret joys you have especially for them.
THE RING CEREMONY
OFFICIANT: The weddding ring is a symbol of married love, the precious metals represent that your love is your most precious possession, and the unending circle symbolizes taht your love may never cease.
GROOM
OFFICIANT: GROOM, do you have a ring for BRIDE?
OFFICIANT: Please repeat after me...
"BRIDE, I give you this ring, as a symbol of my love, please wear it, as a sign to the world, that you are my wife. With this ring, I THEE WED."