Wedding Ceremony

Will you promise to constantly pray for PETER AND MARIE to be an encouragement to them when they falter and advise them during times of difficulties?

(Principal Sponsors answer, “Yes, we will”)

EXCHANGE OF MARRIAGE VOWS:

PETER AND MARIE, you have made public your intention to be married today. So that the faith and integrity of your objective may appear to all of us who are assembled here, would you respond to these questions:

To the Groom:

PETER, will you have this woman to be your wedded wife, to live in a fashion consistent with God’s design for marriage?

Do you promise to love her, honor her and be faithful to her in times of personal need and personal blessing .

Do you pledge, with God’s help and to best of your ability, to seek to establish and maintain honest, open and loving communication between yourself and MARIE?

Forsaking all others, do you promise to remain faithful to MARIE as long as you both shall live?

(The Groom will answer –“I do”)

To the Bride:

MARIE, will you have this man to be your wedded husband, to live together after God’s ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony?

Will you love him, comfort him, honor and keep him in sickness and health; and forsaking all others, keep thee only unto him, so long as you both shall live?

(The Bride will answer –“I do”)

Groom’s Vow:

“I take you MARIE, to be my lawful wedded wife, and I do promise before God and these witnesses that I will love, honor, support, care for and be faithful to you through all the days of our lives.

Regardless of what the situations maybe, either in sickness or in health; either in poverty or wealth; either failure or success, until we are parted by death.

Bride’s Vow:

“I take you PETER, to be my lawful wedded husband, and I do promise before God and these witnesses that I will love, honor, support, care for and be faithful to you through all the days of our lives.

Regardless of what the situations maybe, either in sickness or in health; either in poverty or wealth; either failure or success, until we are parted by death.

BLESSING & EXCHANGING OF RINGS

(Motion the Best Man to prepare the rings)

Minister:

A. PETER, what token of love do you have for this woman?

(The Groom answers– “ A ring!”)

B. MARIE, what token of love do you have for this man?

(The Bride answers– “A ring!”)

Minister:

“Rings have been symbols of wedded love. These are made of pure gold to symbolize pure love. These are unbroken circles to symbolize unending love.

These rings will remind you of this moment when your lives and hearts were united in one.”

(Minister hands the rings to the groom, instructs him to put it on the ring finger of the bride)

Groom: “This ring I give you symbolizes the unending love which I pledge to you. May it remind you of my solemn vows to you this day of our wedding.”

(The Groom will then proceed to put the ring into his Bride’s ring finger– left hand)

(Minister hands the rings to the bride, instructs him to put it on the ring finger of the groom)

Bride: “I give you this ring that you may wear it as the symbol of vows of love I have promised and the covenant I have made with you this day of our wedding.”