Welcome

Welcome everyone. This is where all of you have been invited to partake in this occasion and bind yourselves as witnesses to the love shared by [Groom] and [Bride].

Opening Statement

Everyone must understand that [Groom] and [Bride] are called to a new way of life. Therefore, let marriage be held in honor among us. 

Reading

When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angles desert heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy.

Therefore

Dearly Beloved, 

We are gathered together here in the presence of these witnesses to join this man and this woman in joyous matrimony, which is an honorable estate instituted by love. It is therefore not to be entered into unadvisedly, but reverently, with great care and deep commitment.      

[Groom], will you take [Bride] to be your wedded wife to live together in the joyous union of matrimony? Will you love her, comfort her, honor and keep her, in sickness and in health, forsaking all others, keeping only unto her so long as you both shall live? 

Groom answers: I will   

[Bride], will you take [Groom] to be your wedded husband to live together in the joyous union of matrimony? Will you love him, comfort him, honor and keep him, in sickness and in health, forsaking all others, keeping only unto him so long as you both shall live?   

Bride answers: I will       

Who giveth this woman to be married to this man?   

Brides’ father rises and says: Her mother and I do.  He then raises her veil, kisses her and present her to [Groom]. Then retakes his seat.   

[Groom] and [Bride] please join hands?  

[Groom] look into [Bride] ’s eyes with and open heart and repeat after me. 

I take you, [Bride], to be my wife, my friend, and my support from this day forward. To join with you and to share all that I have, all that I am, and all that I will be.

I will give you the future and I will strive to make our future brighter than any star. 

Groom repeats: 

I take you, [Bride], to be my wife, my friend, and my support from this day forward. To join with you and to share all that I have, all that I am, and all that I will be.

I will give you the future and I will strive to make our future brighter than any star.   

[Bride] look into [Groom]’s eyes with and open heart and repeat after me. 

I take you, [Groom], to be my husband, my friend, and my support from this day forward. To join with you and to share all that I have, all that I am, and all that I will be.

I will give you the future and I will strive to make our future brighter than any star. 

Bride repeats: 

I take you, [Groom], to be my husband, my friend, and my support from this day forward. To join with you and to share all that I have, all that I am, and all that I will be.

I will give you the future and I will strive to make our future brighter than any star.   

Take Rings

[Groom] repeat after me: 

With this ring, I wed you [Bride], for today, for tomorrow, and for all the years to come. Please wear it as a sign of my deep and everlasting love.       

Groom repeats:  

With this ring, I wed you [Bride], for today, for tomorrow, and for all the years to come. Please wear it as a sign of my deep and everlasting love.   

[Bride] repeat after me:

With this ring, I wed you [Groom], for today, for tomorrow, and for all the years to come. Please wear it as a sign of my deep and everlasting love.   

Bride repeats: 

With this ring, I wed you [Groom], for today, for tomorrow, and for all the years to come. Please wear it as a sign of my deep and everlasting love.   

Move to candle lighting: 

(Light single candles) 

[Groom] and [Bride], The two lighted candles symbolize your separate friends, families and lives. I ask that you each take your one candle and together light the center candle. 

(While you are lighting the center candle) 

Lighting the center candle represents that you’re to lives are now joined to one light, and represents the joining of you families and friends as one.  

[Groom], [Bride] will you now extinguish your individual candles, thus letting the center candle symbolizes the union of your lives. As one light cannot be divided, neither will you lives be divided   

Return to altar: 

[Groom] and [Bride] have consented together in joyous wedlock and have witnessed the same before this company; they have pledged their faiths to each other, and have declared the same by joining hands and exchanging rings; and now by the authority invested in me, but most of all by the power of your love for each other, I now pronounce you are married. You may now call yourself those cherished names:   

  Husband and Wife 

You may now seal your promise with a kiss.   

Family and Friends may I now introduce you to: 

MR. and MRS [Groom]