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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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Religious Ceremony I Prince of Wales Package & William & Mary Package
Officiant: Please stand.
(Bride processes down the aisle with her father or chosen escort.)
Presentation of the Bride:
Officiant: Being assured that your love and your choice of each other as lifelong companions are in God's will and that you have your families' blessings. I now ask. Who brings this woman to be married to this man?
Bride’s Father (or chosen escort): I do. (Or: Her mother and I.)
(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, Maid of Honor straightens it.)
Officiant: Please be seated.
Welcome:
Officiant: Dearly Beloved: We are gathered here, in the presence of God and of this company, that ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____ may be united in holy matrimony. We are here to celebrate and share in the glorious act that God is about to perform - the act by which He converts their love for one another into the holy and sacred estate of marriage.
Officiant: This relationship is an honorable and sacred one, established by our Creator for the welfare and happiness of mankind, and approved by the Apostle Paul as honorable among all men. It is designed to unite two sympathies and hopes into one; and it rests upon the mutual confidence and devotion of husband and wife.
Officiant: The union of husband and wife in heart, body, and mind is intended by God for their mutual joy; for the help and comfort given one another in prosperity and adversity. Therefore, may it be in extreme thoughtfulness and reverence, and in dependence upon divine guidance, that you enter now into this holy relationship.
Rose Ceremony: (Optional)
(Choice of Rose Ceremony for the couple’s mothers or parents. Click on “Specialty Ceremonies” navigation menu link at left for Rose Ceremonies. A musical selection may be played softly during ceremony.)
Prayer:
Officiant: Beloved God, we welcome your presence in our hearts today. We have come together as a community of family and friends to witness and bless the vows of ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____ and the beginning of their journey together as husband and wife. We ask that you bless them with a loving, healthy and happy marriage.
Officiant: Amen.
Reading: (Optional) (Choose the reading below or choose another from our website: click on the “Readings” or “Prayers” navigation menu link at left.)
Officiant: This is a poem called Wedding Gifts by Katherine Murphy
Grant us O Lord, the gift of words, kind and loving words that communicate and encourage, words of wisdom from you.
Grant us O Lord, the gift of attention, rapt listening to the needs of one another and the casting aside of all focus on ourselves.
Grant us O Lord, the gift of acceptance, the ability to recognize our differences and see in one another the unique person you created.
Grant us O Lord, the gift of patience, not only with each other as we grow and change but to know that all good things come in your time.
Grant us O Lord, the greatest of all the gifts, Love – on this day and always – as we join together in the sacred union of marriage.
Musical Selection: (Optional)
(The couple may have a friend or family member sing or play a musical instrument, or a recorded version of a religious hymn or the couple’s favorite love song may be played.)
Intention:
Officiant: Marriage is a decision of two individuals to share the same type of pure, love described by Saint Paul in First Corinthians. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails....
Officiant: This kind of love enriches each part of life and marriage enriches love. Two lives, shared with this kind of love, can hold more fulfillment and happiness than either life alone.
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____, are you ready to enter into this marriage with ___(Bride)_____, believing the love you share and your faith in each other will endure all things?
Groom: I am.
Officiant: ___(Bride)_____, are you ready to enter into this marriage with ___(Groom)_____, believing the love you share and your faith in each other will endure all things?
Bride: I am.
Witness Affirmation: (Optional)
Officiant (To witnesses): We have been called together as witnesses to the happiness that this couple has found together, and to the pledges they will make to each other for the mutual service of their common life.
Officiant (To witnesses): Do all of you here present offer your blessing and support for this couple, and wish them the best of lives together?
Witnesses: We do.
Exchange of Vows: (Choose the vows below or choose others from our website: click on the “Vows” navigation menu link at left.)
Officiant (To couple): Will you please join hands.
(Bride turns and gives her bouquet to Maid of Honor.)
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____, I call to your attention the seriousness of the decision you have made and the covenant you are about to declare before God and these guests. I remind you that love and loyalty are the foundation of a happy and enduring home. The future is unknown to any of us. Yet your love for one another and your trust in the goodness of God’s Will, makes possible the act of faith you now make in our midst.
Officiant: As you make your promises to each other, remember that constant and continuous faithfulness to your vows will result in a marriage that will be blessed, a home that will be a place of peace, and a relationship in which you both grow in love.
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____, do you take ___(Bride)_____ to be your wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in holy matrimony? Do you promise to love her, to honor and cherish her, in joy and in sorrow, in sickness and in health, and to be to her, in all things, a good and faithful husband as long as you both shall live?
Groom: I do.
Officiant: ___(Bride)_____, do you take ___(Groom)_____ to be your wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in holy matrimony? Do you promise to love him, to honor and cherish him, in joy and in sorrow, in sickness and in health, and to be to him, in all things, a good and faithful wife as long as you both shall live?
Bride: I do.
Blessing of Rings:
Officiant: May I have the rings?
(Best Man (and Maid Of Honor) gives rings to Officiant.)
Officiant: Heavenly Father, bless these rings. Grant that ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____ may wear them with deep faith in each other. May they do your will and always live together in peace, love and abiding joy. Amen.
Officiant: From the earliest of times the circle of the wedding band has been a symbol of wedded love. It has become a religious custom for couples to exchange rings as a way to represent their own, unique love. As these rings have no end, so your love should have no end. As these rings are made of the purest of metals, symbolizing purity, so should your marriage have purity. As often as either of you see them, you will be reminded of this moment and the endless love you promised.
The Exchange of Rings: (Choose the Ring Ceremony below or choose others from our website: click on the “Ring Ceremonies” navigation menu link at left.)
(Officiant gives Groom the ring for Bride.)
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____, repeat after me. ___(Bride)_____, this ring I give to you, in token and pledge of my constant faith and abiding love.
(Groom repeats and places ring on Bride’s finger.)
(Officiant gives Bride the ring for Groom.)
Officiant: ___(Bride)_____, repeat after me. ___(Groom)_____, this ring I give to you, in token and pledge of my constant faith and abiding love.
(Bride repeats and places ring on Groom’s finger.)
Unity Ceremony: (Optional)
(Choice of Unity Candle, Sand , Wine or other Unity Ceremony. Click on “Unity Ceremonies” navigation menu link at left for Unity Sand, Candle, or Wine Ceremonies. A musical selection may be played softly during ceremony.)
Final Blessing: (Choose the Blessing below or choose others from our website: click on the “Blessings” navigation menu link at left.)
Officiant: Let us pray:
Officiant: O thou eternal God, who art our Father and our Friend, as you have heard these words of promise just spoken, may You deepen in the mind of this man and this woman the sense of the sacred and binding power of their vows. Send your blessing upon this man and this woman and endow them with Your grace and guidance that they may loyally fulfill the vows they have taken. May they ever remain in perfect love and peace together, and live according to your laws. May Your joy abide with them always, that thus they may be a blessing to each other, and to those about them. And may they find in the blessedness of the home life on earth a sample of the happiness of Your eternal home.
Officiant: Amen.
Pronouncement and Kiss:
Officiant: What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. Forasmuch as ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____ have consented together to live in holy matrimony, and have witnessed the same before God and this company, and have pledged their love and loyalty to each other, and have declared the same by the joining of hands and the giving of rings, I now pronounce, by the authority vested in me, and in accordance with the laws of the State of ___(State)_____, that they are husband and wife.
Officiant: ___(Groom)______ you may now kiss your Bride.
(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.)
(Couple turns to face guests.)
Officiant: It is now my pleasure to present Mr. and Mrs. ___________.
(Couple recesses out followed by the wedding party.) |
