Brittany Christine Redeker

PROCESSIONAL

Guests enter.

INVOCATION

Welcome to our beloved and honored guests. We’re gathered here today to celebrate __________ and __________, as they make a promise of love and commitment to one another.

What a gift and joy to find someone with whom to spend our life! Committing to share our brightest days and weather our darkest nights with someone is no small thing and cannot be done lightly.

Commitment is about trust. Its about patience, forgiveness, devotion, and hope. It’s what happens when a relationship becomes a home – a place of safety and love – to which each partner can return, again and again.

A true marriage begins well before the wedding day, and the efforts of marriage continue well beyond the ceremony. A brief moment in time and the stroke of the pen are all that is required to create the legal bond of marriage, but it takes a lifetime of love, commitment, and compromise to make marriage durable and everlasting.

Today you declare your commitment to each other before family and friends.

DECLARATION OF INTENT

OFFICIANT TO PARTNER A

“Do you, __________, promise to spend your life with __________, meeting each new joy and sorrow together, continuing to deepen your understanding of them, treating them with kindness and compassion, and welcoming each new chapter of life together with a spirit of curiosity and patience?”

PARTNER A TO PARTNER B

“I do.”

OFFICIANT TO PARTNER B

“Do you, __________, promise to spend your life with __________, meeting each new joy and sorrow together, continuing to deepen your understanding of them, treating them with kindness and compassion, and welcoming each new chapter of life together with a spirit of curiosity and patience?”

PARTNER B TO PARTNER A

“I do.”

RINGS EXCHANGE

__________ and __________ have chosen rings to exchange with each other as a symbol of their unending love.

“__________, as you place this ring on __________’s finger, please repeat after me. With this ring, I promise to care for you, to tackle every challenge and sadness with you as a team, to find laughter and lightness in every day we spend together, and to love and accept you just as you are.”

PARTNER A REPEATS AS THEY PLACE THE RING ON PARTNER B’S FINGER.

“__________, as you place this ring on __________’s finger, please repeat after me. With this ring, I promise to care for you, to tackle every challenge and sadness with you as a team, to find laughter and lightness in every day we spend together, and to love and accept you just as you are.”

PRONOUNCEMENT

“By the authority vested in me by American Marriage Ministries and the state of North Carolina, I now pronounce you Husband and Wife. You may now kiss the bride!”