We're having my fiance's uncle marry us, so I wrote this up for him to read. I'm quite proud of it, but IDK how ceremonies typically go, so I just want to make sure it makes sense.
Ladies and gentlemen, family and friends, we are gathered here today to witness and celebrate the joining of Woman and Manin marriage. With love and commitment, they have decided to live their lives together as husband and wife. Man and Woman - Today you enter as individuals, but you will leave here as husband and wife, blending your lives, expanding your family ties, and embarking upon the grandest adventure of human interaction. The story of your life together is still yours to write. All those present have come to witness and celebrate your love and commitment this day - eager to be a part of the story not yet told. True marriage begins well before the wedding day, and the efforts of marriage continue well beyond the ceremony's end. A brief moment in time and the stroke of the pen are all that is required to create the legal bond of marriage, but it takes a lifetime of love, commitment, and compromise to make marriage durable and everlasting. Today you declare your commitment to each other before family and friends, your yesterdays were the path to this moment, and your journey to a future of togetherness becomes a little clearer with each new day. ___________ and ____________, remember to treat yourselves and each other with respect, and remind yourselves often of what brought you together. Take responsibility for making the other feel safe, and give the highest priority to the tenderness, gentleness and kindness that your connection deserves. When frustration, difficulty and fear assail your relationship, as they threaten all relationships at some time or another, remember to focus on what is right between you, not just the part that seems wrong. In this way, you can survive the times when clouds drift across the face of the sun in your lives, remembering that, just because you may lose sight of it for a moment, does not mean the sun has gone away. And, if each of you takes responsibility for the quality of your life together, it will be marked by abundance and delight. As God’s children by faith in Jesus Christ, the vows you are about to exchange are especially meaningful. As you are obedient to the Word of God, and allow God to control your relationship, your home will be the place of joy and testimony to the world that God intends.
Repeat after me: I, man, take you, woman ...to be my wedded wife...To have and to hold...from this day forward...for better, for worse...for richer, for poorer...in sickness or in health...to love and to cherish... ‘til death do us part...with this ring, I thee wed.
I, woman, take you, man...to be my wedded husband. To have and to hold...from this day forward...for better, for worse...for richer, for poorer...in sickness or in health...to love and to cherish...‘til death do us part....with this ring, I thee wed.
By the power vested in me by the State of Texas, I know pronounced you husband and wife. Man, you may kiss your bride. (kiss)
Family and friends, I present to you, Mr and Mrs. lastname.