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Wedding ceremonies |
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Ralph’s Regal Weddings More than just Wedding Officiants |
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Wedding Ministers and Ceremony Officiants Providing Ceremony Preparation, Staging and Direction Spokane, Washington and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho |
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Copyright 2012 — Ralph J. Fishburn & Karen I. Fishburn |
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Conveniently located in Spokane, WA near East 17th Avenue and Ray Street. Also serving Coeur d’Alene, ID and Post Falls, ID and other areas within Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho |
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To contact us: |
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Phone: 509-599-5632 E-mail: Info@RalphsRegalWeddings.com (Set your filters to allow email from this domain.) |
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Custom Civil Ceremony — Sample I Queen Elizabeth Package
Officiant: Please stand.
(Bride processes down the aisle escorted by her father or chosen escort.)
(Bride's escort places her hand in Groom's hand.)
(Bride and Groom move forward to stand in front of Officiant.)
(Bride’s escort moves behind Bride and is seated.)
(Bride and Groom turn and face each other.)
(If Bride’s gown has a train, the Maid of Honor straightens it.)
Officiant: Please be seated.
Welcome:
Officiant: We are gathered here today to celebrate one of life’s greatest moments and to give recognition to the worth and beauty of love. Not to witness the beginning of what will be, but rather what already is, and to add our best wishes to the words which shall unite ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____ in marriage.
Officiant: Marriage is a supreme sharing of experience, and an adventure in the most intimate of human relationships. It is the joyous union of two people whose comradeship and mutual understanding have flowered in romance. The art of marriage is a spiritual journey. It is a mutual enrichment, a give and take between two personalities, a mingling of two endowments which diminishes neither, but enhances both. Today ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____ proclaim their love and commitment to the world, and we gather here to rejoice, with them and for them, in the new life they now undertake.
Reading:
Officiant: This is a poem called True Love by an Unknown Author
True love is a sacred flame That burns eternally, And none can dim its special glow Or change its destiny. True love speaks in tender tones And hears with gentle ear, True love gives with open heart And true love conquers fear. True love makes no harsh demands It neither rules nor binds, And true love holds with gentle hands The hearts that it entwines.
Exchange of Vows: (Example of personally written vows.)
Officiant (To couple): Will you please join hands.
(Bride turns and gives her bouquet to the Maid of Honor.)
Officiant: The step which you are about to take is the most important into which human beings can come. It is a union of two people founded upon mutual respect and affection. Your lives will change, your responsibilities will increase, but your joy will be multiplied if you are sincere and earnest with your pledge to one another.
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____ will now exchange their own personal vows with each other.
(Officiant hands Groom his vows card.)
Groom: I, ___(Groom)_____, take you, ___(Bride)_____, to be my wife, my constant friend, my faithful partner, and my love from this day forward. In the presence of our dear friends, I offer you my solemn vow to be your faithful partner in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad, and in joy as well as in sorrow. I promise to love you unconditionally and passionately, to support you in your goals, to honor and respect you, to laugh with you and cry with you, and to cherish you. I give you my hand, my heart, and my love, from this day forward for as long as we both shall live.
(Groom hands back his vows card to Officiant.)
(Officiant hands Bride her vows card.)
Bride: ___(Groom)_____, it is hard to put into words the love that I have for you and will forever have. It is with my very soul that I promise you that as your devoted wife: I will be faithful to you always, I will open my heart to you in honesty forever, I will respect, trust, care, and love you. It is with this vow of love that I, ___(Bride)_____, promise to stand by your side for the rest of my life.
(Bride hands back her vows card to Officiant.)
Prelude to Ring Exchange:
Officiant: May I have the rings, please?
(Best Man (and Maid Of Honor) gives rings to Officiant.)
Officiant: These are the rings that ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____ will wear for the rest of their lives; an expression of the love that they have for one another. Let us all bless these rings. These rings are circles, symbols that remind us of the Sun, the Earth, and the Universe. They are symbols of perfection and peace, which have no beginning and no end. And so, in this moment, let us all bring our blessings to these rings to also be symbols of unity, of joining, and of commitment.
Exchange of Rings:
(Officiant gives Groom the ring for Bride.)
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____, repeat after me: ___(Bride)_____, it is with this ring that I become your husband and am forever united with you. I offer you all the days before me. Take this ring as a symbol of my commitment and love that I have for you.
(Groom repeats and places ring on Bride’s finger.)
(Officiant gives Bride the ring for Groom.)
Officiant: ___(Bride)_____, repeat after me: ___(Groom)_____, it is with this ring that I become your wife and am forever united with you. I offer you all the days before me. Take this ring as a symbol of my commitment and love that I have for you.
(Bride repeats and places ring on Groom’s finger.)
Final Blessing:
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____, George Eliot wrote:
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labor, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories?
Officiant: As you enter into your new life together, remember these words and may every blessing and grace be yours, as your lives are now bound in each other’s keeping.
Pronouncement and Kiss:
Officiant: Inasmuch as you have consented together in this ceremony to join your lives in the bonds of matrimony, and you have promised your love for each other by the exchanging of these vows, and the giving and receiving of these rings in the presence of these witnesses; it gives me great pleasure to pronounce, by the authority vested in me, and in accordance with the laws of the State of ___(State)_____, that you are husband and wife.
Officiant: Congratulations, you may now exchange a kiss.
(Officiant steps to the side while couple kisses.)
Introduction as Husband and Wife:
(Officiant steps back to previous position .)
(Maid of Honor hands the bouquet back to the Bride.)
(Bride and Groom turn to face guests.)
Officiant: It is now my pleasure of presenting Mrs. and Mrs. _________.
(Couple recesses out followed by the wedding party.)
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