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Civil
Wedding Ceremony
Welcome
to family and friends:
Friends,
we have come together today to witness the marriage of __________ and
__________. The legal requirements of this state having been
fulfilled, and the license for their marriage being present, I must
ask of each party if they come of their own free will and accord.
___________, do
you come to this union of your free will, and with the intention of
being faithful in marriage to ___________ as long as you shall live?
Groom answers "I
do."
___________, do you come to this union of your free will, and with the
intention of being faithful in Marriage to ___________ as long as you
shall live?
Bride answers "I
do."
Who presents
___________ to be married to ___________?
Bride's father
(or representative)
responds "I do."
Vows:
Please
repeat the following after me:
I, ___________, do take you, ___________, to be my lawfully wedded
wife. I promise from this day forward to be your faithful husband, for
better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to
love and to cherish, as long as I shall live.
Please repeat
after me:
I, ___________, do take you, ___________, to be my lawfully wedded
husband. I promise from this day forward to be your faithful wife, for
better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to
love and to cherish, as long as I shall live.
Rings
The wedding ring
seals the vows of marriage as a signature bears witness to a written
covenant. As the ring is placed upon the finger, will you repeat these
words?
In pledge of the
vow of marriage made between us, I offer you this ring. Let it be to
you and to me, and to the entire world, the symbol of the covenant of
marriage we have accepted.
We have come
together in this place and have heard the willingness of ___________
and ___________ to be joined in marriage. They have come of their free
will and in our hearing have made a covenant of faithfulness. They
have given and received a ring as the seal of their promises.
Therefore, by
the power vested in me by the state of ________, I pronounce that they
are husband and wife.
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