Wedding

WEDDING VOWS

? MAN, If you and Andrea, have freely and deliberately chosen each others as partners for life,

would you please join your right hands.

? MAN, will you have this woman to be your wedded wife; will you love her, honor and keep her in sickness as in health, in poverty as in wealth, and forsaking all others, keep yourself only unto her so long as you both shall live

[MAN I Will]

? WOMAN, will you have this man to be your wedded husband? Will you love him, honor and keep him in sickness as in health,in poverty as in wealth, and forsaking all others, keep yourself only unto him so long as you both shall live -

[WOMAN I Will]

?MAN, please repeat after me, I, ____________ .... take thee, ______________ .... to be my wedded wife... to have and to hold... from this day forward ... for better, for worse .... for richer, for poorer.... in sickness and in health .... to love and cherish ... ’til death do us part.

?WOMAN, please repeat after me, I, ____________ .... take thee, __________________ .... to be my wedded husband ... to have and to hold ... from this day forward ... for better, for worse .... for richer,for

poorer .... in sickness and in health .... to love, cherish, and obey... "til death do us part.

EXCHANGING OF THE RINGS

? The wedding ring is a symbol of marriage in at least two ways: the purity of gold symbolizes the purity of your love for each other, and the unending circle symbolizes the unending vows which you are taking, which may be broken honorably in the sight of God only by death. As a token of your vows, you will give and receive the rings.

? MAN, you will give the ring and repeat after me:

? WOMAN, with this ring I pledge my life and love to you ... in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit”.

? WOMAN, you will give the ring and repeat after me:

? MAN, with this ring I pledge my life and love to you ... in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit”.

** God's Knot- Cord of Three Strands **

Today ____________ and ______________ have choosen to braid three starnds together into a single cord. Each strand has a significant.

The Gold - strand represents God and His majesty

The Purple - strand represents the groom and his life

The white - strand represents the bride and her life

In braiding these strands together, Bradley and Andrea have demonstrated that their marriage is more than a joining of two lives together. It is a unity with A Holy God as well. They have choosen to allow God to be at the center of their marraige woven into every aspect of it.

As Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Reads:

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (NKJV) 9 Two are better than one, Because they have a good reward for their labor. 10 For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, For he has no one to help him up. 11 Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; But how can one be warm alone? 12 Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.