SAMPLE WELCOME

CELEBRANT:
Dear family and friends – let your hearts be glad, for on this day we
come together in joy to witness the marriage of Jennifer and Daniel.  
You, their family and friends, each have been invited here for a holy
purpose, not just to witness, but to participate fully with your thoughts
and prayers, and to bless this couple and their married life.  Jennifer
and Daniel have chosen this ceremony of marriage because they
wanted to include you as their witnesses, their community, and their
friends.  Homer wrote: “There is nothing nobler or more admirable
than when two people, who see eye to eye, keep house as man and
wife, thus confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”  
You are those friends.  You are welcome here today.  

Daniel and Jennifer, your friends and family join with you on this day,
as you pledge that from this time forward you shall be husband and
wife; that you will carry each other within you, wherever you may go;
that no matter what life may bring, you will walk it hand-in-hand,
committed as husband and wife.  Marriage will be your fortress of
well-being.  


SAMPLE RING VOWS

CELEBRANT: Love is a symbol of eternity.  It wipes out all sense of
time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. It is
a circle like these rings.  May they always remind you that your love
is a grace upon this world.

David, please place the ring on Holli’s finger and repeat after me:

DAVID:
Catherine, with these rings, I marry you.
Take and wear them as a pledge of my love,
And as a symbol of all we share.

CELEBRANT: Holli, please place the ring on David’s finger and
repeat after me:

HOLLI:
David, with this ring, I marry you.
Take and wear it as a pledge of my love,
And as a symbol of all we share

CELEBRANT: These rings will endure.  So may it be with your love.


SAMPLE BLESSING with Humor

CELEBRANT:
The secret to a good marriage is a secret. It is not enough to find a
good partner; you must also be a good partner.  The road ahead is
open to you.  As you step forward together I offer you this blessing.

May you never go to bed angry.  May you always stay up and fight.  

May you never hesitate to seize a single morsel of life.  Remember
all those people on the Titanic who passed up the dessert tray.

And together may you always find Life an adventure when you are
lost and a treasure when you are found.