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Solemnisation of Matrimony Spoken by the Minister: Family & Friends, we have come here today in order that ___________ & ________ may be joined together in marriage. They have asked you to be present on this occasion because they wish you to share with them the joy and happiness they feel on this wedding day. Please listen to these words about the meaning of marriage. True marriage is the promise of hope between a man and women who love each other, who trust that love and who wish to share the future together. It enables two separate people to share their dreams and memories and to help each other through their uncertainties. In such sharing, a couple strive to be companions. A good marriage enables such trust and faithfulness, so that feeling can be honestly expressed. Irritation and disagreement will be faced and not left to fester. Failures will be accepted and forgiven each day because of the healing sprit of love in their home. Their faith in each other will overcome every obstacle. And their importance of each other will grow as their trust in each other deepens. In marriage, husbands and wife belong together, providing mutual encouragement and support. These words were written almost 2000 years ago express the nature of true love. True Love is slow to lose patience, it looks for ways of being constructive, it is not possessive. It is neither anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance. Love has good manners and does not keep account of evil. It is always eager to believe the best. Always hopeful, always patient. It is a love that knows no limits to its endurance, no fading to its hope. It is infact the one thing that stands when everything has fallen. __________ & __________ ,before you are joined in Marriage in the presences of the witnesses, I will remind you of the solemn and binding nature of the commitment you are about to make. Marriage exists in order that a man and women may be united and may give each other life long companionship, help and comfort both in prosperity and adversity. Such a marriage helps to provide firm foundations for human society and must not be entered in to lightly and thoughtlessly. It is to be undertaken seriously and respect for each other. Love is the reason why this day was chosen by both of you to begin your life's together, and love is the reason why both of you will give with all your hearts for the good of each other. Love is the reason that together you will become one. One hope. One in believing in life and one in sharing in the coming years. Spoken by the Minister: Let us pray. Almighty God to whom all hearts are open, all desire known and from whom no secrets are hid: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts that we may perfectly love you and worthily magnify your holy name. O eternal God, creator and the preserver of all mankind, send thy blessing upon this man and this women whom we bless in thy name, that they may be faithfully live together and may surely perform and keep the promise and Covenant made between them and may ever remain in perfect love and peace together and live accordingly, we pray in your name: Amen. The AgreementMinister _____________ do you take ___________ to be your lawful wedded wife, to live together in marriage. Will you love her, comfort her, honor and keep her and be faithful to her as long as you both shall live? If you agree please say I Will. Minister ______________do you take __________ to be your lawful wedded husband to live together in marriage. Will you love him, comfort him, honor and keep him, and be faithful to him as long as you both live? If you agree please say I Will. Both shall hold hands and repeat after the Minister. The Vow I call upon this people present here today to witness that I _________ do take __________ to be my lawful wedded wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day forward for better for worse for richer for poorer in sickness and in health till death do us apart according to God's holy law and today I give you my promise. The Ring Ceremony We now come to the ring ceremony. These rings will become important to __________ & __________than any other ring in the world for they will represent to them and to all people the bond of love by which they are united. As the rings are without edge or seam, having no beginning & no end they symbolize the perfection of love that knows no end. Minister to Groom: __________ , as you place the ring on _________ 's finger say after me. 'I give you this ring as a token of my love. It is a symbol of vows we have made her today. Wear it as a symbol of all that we share together' Minister to Bride: __________ , as you place the ring on _________ 's finger say after me. 'I give you this ring as a token of my love. It is a symbol of vows we have made her today. Wear it as a symbol of all that we share together' For as much as __________ & __________ Have consented together in holy marriage and have witnessed the same before God and this company and have pledge their promise to each other and have declared the same by giving and receiving of a ring and by joining hands, I pronounce that they be husband and wife together. What God has joined, together, no man put us under. God bless, preserve and keep you and God mercifully with his favor look upon you with all spiritual benediction and grace that you may so live together in his life that in the world to come you may have life everlasting. Amen. May your wedding day and every day after be blessed. And may your home and your hearts be filled with happiness, love and laughter, and bring you all the happiness you are so deserving. May the joy of true companionship be yours to share through life, and may you always bless the day that made you husband and wife.
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