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Welcome family and friends. We gather here today to celebrate the wedding of Matthew and Nina. You have come here to share in this commitment they make to one another to offer your love and support to this union and to allow Matt and Nina to start their married life together surrounded by the people most important to them. We come together, not to mark the start of your relationship, but to recognize the bond that already exists between the two of you.
Marriage is perhaps the greatest and most challenging adventure of human relationships. No ceremony can create your marriage; only you can do that – through love and patience; through dedication and perseverance; through talking and listening, helping and supporting and believing in each other; through tenderness and laughter; through learning to forgive, learning to appreciate your differences and by learning to make the important things matter and let go of the rest. What this ceremony can do, is to witness and affirm the choice you make to stand together as partners.
And so here you are today, to say your marriage vows to one another. Please face each other and join hands.
I, Matthew, take you, Nina, to be my wife, my constant friend, my faithful partner and my love from this day forward.
I, Nina, take you, Matthew, to be my husband, my constant friend, my faithful partner and my love from this day forward.
May I please have your rings?
The wedding ring is the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual bond, which unites two loyal hearts in endless love. It is a seal of the vows Matt and Nina have made to one another.
Matt, please place Nina’s ring on the third finger of her left hand and repeat after me.
This ring I give to you as a token of my love and devotion to you. I pledge to you all that I am and all that I will ever be as your husband. With this ring, I gladly marry you and join my life to yours.
Nina, please place Matt’s ring on the third finger of his left hand and repeat after me.
This ring I give to you as a token of my love and devotion to you. I pledge to you all that I am and all that I will ever be as your wife. With this ring, I gladly marry you and join my life to yours.
Before you are two individual containers of sand; they represent all that you are and all that you will ever be as an individual. They also represent your lives before today. Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again, so will your marriage be.
And now, for as much as you have made you vows, each to the other, and have declared the same by giving and receiving your rings, I pronounce that you are husband and wife.
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