Sample Wedding Ceremony

[JoeyJoeJoe]

Evenin’ Everybody,

Tonight I had the honor and pleasure of performing another wedding ceremony. I thought I’d share the script with you all. This wedding included a Sand Pouring ceremony.

Total time: under 10 mins (with processional/sand pouring/recessional)

 

*After Processional*

Who gives this woman to be married to this man?

Father: I do (Alternately: “Her father” however he wants to respond)

Friends and Family of BRIDE and GROOM, welcome and thank you for being here on this important day. We are gathered together to celebrate the very special love between BRIDE and GROOM, by joining them in marriage. All of us need and desire to love and to be loved. And the highest form of love between two people is within a caring, committed relationship. BRIDE and GROOM, your marriage today is the public and legal joining of your souls that have already been united as one in your own hearts.

Marriage will allow you a new environment to share your lives together, standing together to face life and the world, hand-in-hand. Marriage is going to expand you as individuals, define you as a couple, and deepen your love for one another. To be successful, you will need: strength, courage, patience and a really good sense of humor. So, let your marriage be a time of waking each morning and falling in love with each other all over again.

BRIDE and GROOM, I remind you that marriage is a precious gift, a lifelong commitment, and a challenge to love one another more completely each and every day. Please join hands and look into each other’s eyes.

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Do you, GROOM, take BRIDE to be your lawfully wedded wife? From this day forward, to have and to hold, for better, for worse, for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do you part?

Groom: I do.

Do you, BRIDE, take GROOM to be your lawfully wedded husband? From this day forward, to have and to hold, for better, for worse, for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do you part?

Bride: I do.

BRIDE, GROOM, do you have a token or symbol of abiding together that you wish to exchange?

*Best man hands Joe the rings*

These rings are the outward and visible sign of an inward and abiding love. A symbol to all other of this unbreakable union.

GROOM, please place the ring BRIDE’s finger and repeat after me.

I give you this ring as a constant reminder — of the promises we exchanged here today — As you receive this ring — receive my promise — to love always and forever with you –

BRIDE, please place the ring on GROOM’s finger and repeat after me.

I give you this ring as a constant reminder — of the promises we exchanged here today — As you receive this ring — receive my promise — to love always and forever with you –

*We bring the sand containers into view*

Today, this relationship is symbolized through the pouring of these two-individual container of sand. One representing you, GROOM, and all that you were, all that you are, and all that you will ever be and the other representing you, BRIDE, and all that you were, all that you are, and all that you will ever be.

As these two containers of sand are poured into the third container, the individual containers of sand will no longer exist, but will be joined together as one. Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual containers, so will your marriage be.

*You each take your containers of sand and pour them into the third container*

BRIDE and GROOM, you have committed yourselves to each other in marriage by the exchanging of vows, by the giving of rings, and by the combining of sand. With the authority vested in me by the state of New York, and with great joy, I now pronounce you Husband and Wife! May you live together in blissful happiness from this day forward. You may seal your vows with a kiss!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends and Family, it is now my pleasure to present for the first time: MR and MRS HUSBAND AND WIFE [LAST NAME]!

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