Wedding Ceremony for Wes & Diane
Please Stand
Who presents this woman to be married to this man?
(Parents..."we do.")
Please be seated
Wes and Diane wish to welcome you on this joyous occasion to celebrate their love for one another as they exchange wedding vows and become husband and wife.
Marriage is a serious commitment. You are making promises to each other to love, honor, cherish, and be faithful to one another with the intent that this marriage is to last a lifetime.
Wes and Diane, remember to treat yourselves and each other with respect, and remind yourselves often of what brought you together. Take responsibility for making the other feel safe, and give the highest priority to the tenderness, gentleness, and kindness that your connection deserves.
When frustration, difficulty and fear assail your relationship, ... as they threaten all relationships at some time or another... remember to focus on what is right between you, not just the part that seems wrong.
In this
way, you can survive the times
when clouds drift across the face of
the sun in your lives,
remembering that, just because you may
lose sight of it for a moment,
does not mean the sun has gone away.
And, if each of you takes responsibility for the quality of your life together, it will be marked by abundance and delight.
APACHE BLESSING
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.
Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you.
May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and all through the years.
May happiness be your companion
and your days together be good and long upon the earth.
This reading comes from Diane's parent's wedding in 1976, over 37 years ago! The reading comes from the Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindberg.
“A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners to not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free. To touch heavily would be to arrest the pattern and freeze the movement, to check the endlessly changing beauty of its unfolding. There is no place here for the possessive clutch, the clinging arm, the heavy hand; only the barest touch in passing. Now arm in arm, now face to face, now back to back- it does not matter which. Because they know they are partners moving in the same rhythm, creating a pattern together, and being invisibly nourished by it.
The joy of such a pattern is not only the joy of creation or the joy of participation, it is also the joy of living in the moment. Lightness of touch and living in the moment are intertwined.”
VOWS
Do you, Wes, take Diane to be your lawful wedded wife?
I do
Do you promise to love and cherish her, in sickness and in health, for richer for poorer, for better for worse, and forsaking all others, keep yourself only unto her, for so long as you both shall live?
I do
Do you, Diane, take Wes to be your lawful wedded husband?
I do
Do you promise to love and cherish him, in sickness and in health, for richer for poorer, for better for worse, and forsaking all others, keep yourself only unto to him, for so long as you both shall live?
RING CEREMONY
Will the best man please present the rings?
Wes, please repeat after me:
I give you this ring as a reminder
"
that I will love, honor, and cherish you,
"
In all times,
"
in all places,
"
And in all ways
"
Diane, please repeat after me:
I give you this ring as a reminder
"
That I will love, honor, and cherish you,
"
In all times,
"
In all places,
"
And in all ways.
"
And
now, with the authority vested in me by the State of
Husband and wife! Wes, you may now kiss your bride.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have the pleasure of presenting to you, Mr. and Mrs. Wes ______________!