Sample Wedding Ceremony
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Simple CIVIL Wedding Ceremony:

The union into which you are about to enter is the closest and tenderest
into which human beings can come. It is a union founded upon mutual
respect and affection. Your paths will be parallel, your responsibilities
will increase, but your joy will be multiplied if you are sincere and earnest
with one another.

_____________, will you have this woman to be your wedded wife, to love
her, comfort her, honor and keep her, and forsaking all others, keep you
only unto her, for so long as you both shall live? _____________, will you
have this man to be your wedded husband, to love him, comfort him, honor
and keep him, and forsaking all others, keep you only unto him, so long as
you both shall live?

Take hands and repeat after me: I, _____________, take you, _____________, to
be my wedded wife, to have and to hold, for better for worse, for richer
for poorer, to love and to cherish, from this day forward. I, _____________,
take you, _____________, to be my wedded husband, to have and to hold, for
better for worse, for richer for poorer, to love and to cherish, from this
day forward.

Do you have a ring for the bride? Please place the ring on the bride's finger
and say: With this ring, I thee wed. Is there a ring for the groom? Please
place the ring on the groom's finger and say: With this ring I thee wed. Let
these rings be given and received as a token of your affection, sincerity
and fidelity to one another.

For as much as _____________ and _____________ have consented together in
wedlock and have witnessed the same before this company, and have given
and pledged their vows to each other, and have declared the same by joining
hands, by the authority vested in me by the State of _________, I now
pronounce you husband and wife.

(You may kiss the bride. You may kiss the groom.)