| Celebration of Marriage, Renewal of Vows and Commitment Ceremonies Back to Services |
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Your wedding day is one of the most special and memorable days of your life. A cherished celebration, your ceremony should be a reflection of the love and commitment you and your partner share. |
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| Traditional Ceremony Love is patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud. Love is never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable or touchy. Love does not hold grudges and will hardly notice when others do wrong. Love is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever truth wins out.If you love someone, you will be loyal to them no matter what the costs. You will always believe in them, always expect the best from them, and will always stand your ground defending them.—Corinthians. Wedding Vow Renewal (From Diane Warner’s Complete Book of Wedding Vows) You are God’s gift to me, my priceless treasure, my blessing for life. May God bless us and together before our family and friends to renew our pledge of love to one another for all eternity. Wedding When There Are Children from Previous Relationships Sometimes couples will give a ring or small gift such as a necklace or ring to the child and make a statement that the child is now part of the new family. Stating the child/children’s names is very important. Brides Name and Groom’s Name—as the two of you come into this marriage uniting you as husband and wife, and as you this day affirm your faith and love for one another, you create a new family. This family embraces the two of you and your child (Name) or children (Names). May you create a home of comfort and refuge built on respect and strengthened by your love. |
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Unity Candle |
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| Bride’s name and Groom’s name, these two separate candles symbolize your separate lives, separate families and separate sets of friends. I ask that each of you take one of the lit candles and that together you light the center candle. The individual candles represent your lives before today. Lighting the center candle represents that your two lives are now joined and represents the joining together of your two friends and sets of friends to one. |
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The Rose Ceremony |
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Your gift to each other for your wedding today has been your wedding rings – which shall always be an outward demonstration of your vows of love and respect; and a public showing of your commitment to each other. In the past the rose was considered a symbol of love. So it is appropriate that your first gift as husband and wife would be a single rose. Pleases exchange your first gift as husband and wife. If there is anything you remember of this marriage ceremony, it is that it was love that brought you here today, it is only love which can make it a glorious union, and it is by love which your marriage shall endure. |
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| Apache Blessing Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for each other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other. Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before. Go now to your dwelling to enter into the days of your life together. And may your days be good and long upon the earth. A Reading from "The Prophet" Love one another, but make not a bond of that love. Let it rather be like a moving sea between the shores of your souls. And stand together, and yet not too near together. For even the pillars of the temple must stand apart; and the oak tree and the cypress will not grown in each other’s shadow. Remember that love gives nothing but from itself. Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed for love is sufficient unto love. And think not that you can direct the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy will direct your course. Related Links
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