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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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Standard Religious Ceremony Princess Grace Package
Officiant: Please stand.
(Bride processes down the aisle with her father or chosen escort.)
Presentation of the Bride: (Optional)
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 do.)
(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: 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: May it be in extreme thoughtfulness and reverence, and in dependence upon divine guidance, that you enter now into this holy relationship.
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.
Exchange of Vows:
Officiant (To couple): Will you please join hands.
(Bride turns and gives her bouquet to the 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.
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.
Officiant: 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:
(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.)
Final Blessing:
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 the Holy Spirit deepen in the mind of this man and this woman the sense of the sacred and binding power of their vows. And as in Your Name these words were spoken to make these lives one, may your rich blessing be added. Give them Your grace and guidance that they may loyally fulfill the vows they have taken. May Your joy abide with them always, that thus they may be a blessing to each other, and to those about them, finding 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.)
(Groom and Bride turn to face guests.)
Officiant: It is now my pleasure to present Mr. and Mrs. ___________.
(Couple recesses out followed by the wedding party.)
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