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Spokane, Washington and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

Ralph's Regal Weddings

Sample  ceremony

Ralph’s Regal Weddings

is proud to be a

member of

Custom Civil Ceremony I

Queen Elizabeth Package

 

 

Welcome:

 

Officiant: We are gathered here today to celebrate one of life’s greatest moments and to give recognition to the worth and beauty of love.  Not to witness the beginning of what will be, but rather what already is, and to add our best wishes to the words which shall unite ___(Groom)_____  and ___(Bride)_____ in marriage.

 

Officiant: Marriage is a supreme sharing of experience, and an adventure in the most intimate of human relationships.  It is the joyous union of two people whose comradeship and mutual understanding have flowered in romance.  The art of marriage is a spiritual journey.  It is a mutual enrichment, a give and take between two personalities, a mingling of two endowments which diminishes neither, but enhances both.   Today ___(Groom)_____  and ___(Bride)_____  proclaim their love and commitment to the world, and we gather here to rejoice, with them and for them, in the new life they now undertake.

 

 

Reading: 

 

Officiant:  This is a poem called True Love

by An Unknown Author

 

True love is a sacred flame

That burns eternally,

And none can dim its special glow

Or change its destiny.

True love speaks in tender tones

And hears with gentle ear,

True love gives with open heart

And true love conquers fear.

True love makes no harsh demands

It neither rules nor binds,

And true love holds with gentle hands

The hearts that it entwines.

 

 

Exchange of Vows:

 

Officiant (To couple):  Will you please join your hands.

 

Officiant:  ___(Groom)_____  and ___(Bride)_____ will now exchange their own personal vows with each other.

 

Groom:  I, ___(Groom)_____ , take you, ___(Bride)_____ , to be my wife, my constant friend, my faithful partner, and my love from this day forward.  In the presence of our dear friends, I offer you my solemn vow to be your faithful partner in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad, and in joy as well as in sorrow.  I promise to love you unconditionally and passionately, to support you in your goals, to honor and respect you, to laugh with you and cry with you, and to cherish you.  I give you my hand, my heart, and my love, from this day forward for as long as we both shall live.

 

Bride:   ___(Groom)_____ , it is hard to put into words the love that I have for you and will forever have.  It is with my very soul that I promise you that as your devoted wife: I will be faithful to you always, I will open my heart to you in honesty forever, I will respect, trust, care, and love you. It is with this vow of love that I, ___(Bride)_____, promise to stand by your side for the rest of my life.

 

 

Prelude to Ring Exchange (Blessing of Rings):

 

Officiant: These are the rings that ___(Groom)_____  and ___(Bride)_____ will wear for the rest of their lives; an expression of the love that they have for one another.  Let us all bless these rings.  These rings are circles, symbols that remind us of the Sun, the Earth, and the Universe.  Symbols of perfection and peace, which have no beginning and no end.  And so, in this moment, let us all bring our blessings to these rings to also be symbols of unity, of joining, and of commitment.

 

 

Exchange of Rings:

 

Officiant: May I have the rings, please?

 

Officiant (to Groom): Repeat after me.  __(Bride)_____ , it is with this ring that I become your husband and am forever united with you.  I offer you all the days before me. Take this ring as a symbol of my commitment and love that I have for you.

 

Officiant (to Bride): Repeat after me.  __(Groom)_____ , it is with this ring that I become your wife and am forever united with you. I offer you all the days before me. Take this ring as a symbol of my commitment and love that I have for you.

 

 

Final Blessing:

 

Officiant:___(Groom)_______  and ____(Bride)_______ , George Eliot wrote: 

What greater thing is there for two human souls

than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen

each other in all labor, to minister to each other in all sorrow,

to share with each other in all gladness,

to be one with each other in the

silent unspoken memories?

As you enter into your new life together, remember these words and may every blessing and grace be yours, as your lives are now bound in each other’s keeping.

 

 

Pronouncement and Kiss: 

 

Officiant: Inasmuch as you have consented together in this ceremony to live together in Matrimony, have promised your love for each other by these vows and the giving of these rings, it gives me great pleasure to pronounce that you are now Husband and Wife.

 

Officiant:  Congratulations, you may now exchange a kiss.

 

 

Introduction as Husband and Wife:

 

Officiant: It is now my pleasure of  presenting Mrs. and Mrs. _________.