Sample Wedding II
This is a wedding that I did on 3 hours
notice! The couple called at about
11:00 am. They had just decided to get
married and were leaving on vacation the next day. They had been together for several years and wanted something
short and meaningful…
The
Wedding of Ray and Loretta
July
17, 2002
Garden
of the Gods
Colorado
Springs, Colorado
LOVE
"Love is the greatest bow on life's dark cloud.
It shines
upon the babe' and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb.
It is
the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher.
It is
the air and light of every heart -- builder of every home, kindlier of every
fire on every hearth.
It was
the first to dream of immortality.
It fills
the world with melody -- for music is the voice of love.
Love
is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy,
And
makes right royal kings and queens of common clay.
It is
the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion,
That
divine swoon, we are less than beasts;
but
with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods."
Robert G Ingersoll
Singing of “Unchained Melody”
It is love that brings us together
today. Love that brings us
to marriage and this wedding between Ray
and Loretta.
Marriage is a supreme sharing of experience
and an adventure in the most
intimate of human relationships. It is the joyous uniting of a man and a
woman whose comradeship and mutual
understanding have flowered
into romance.
Today Loretta and Ray have chosen to
proclaim their love to the
world, and we who are gathered rejoice with
them and for them
in
their joining. Marriage is a cooperative venture, in every
sense. It is a
relationship based on love, respect, and a
determination on the part of both wife and husband to adjust to
each other’s temperaments and moods – health or sickness, joy
or
sadness, ease or hardship.
Ray, will you have Loretta to be your wife,
to share your life with her, and do you pledge that you will love, honor and
tenderly care for her in all the varying circumstances of your life?
Ray…I Will
Loretta,
will you have Ray to be your husband, to share your life with him, and
do you pledge that you will love, honor and tenderly care for him in all the
varying circumstances of your life?
Loretta… I Will
Words
to each other
From The
Prophet
You
were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You
shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
But
let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And
let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love
one another, but make not a bond of love;
Let
it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill
each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give
one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing
and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even
as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give
your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For
only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And
stand together yet not too near together:
For
the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And
the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.
Kahil
Gibran
Drinking
of water from the marriage vase
Music
Interlude
From
a Native American ceremony
Now
you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.
Now
you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now
there is no more loneliness.
Now
you are two persons, but there is only one life before you.
Go
now to your dwelling to enter into the days of your life together.
And
may your days be good, and long upon the earth.
In as much as Ray and Loretta have come to
this day and have declared themselves to each other; I pronounce them husband
and wife; and will to each that the braid they have woven together be strong
and enduring.
Congratulations