Karyn & Chris

Who presents this woman to be married to this man?
Lizabeth: I, Lizzy do

We are here today to celebrate the marriage of Karyn and Chris. They ask for your blessing, encouragement, and life long support for their decision to become husband, wife and family. Without family and friends beside them in joy as well as sorrow, this new family will miss the greatest joys of life outside their own home. And that is to give and to receive love. To help and to be helped. To teach as well as to learn. They are delighted that you have chosen to witness this special time in their lives. Chris and Karyn not only want their relation ship with each to continue as individuals but take on an even more important dimension as a family as well.

Chris, do you take Karyn, to be your lawful wedded wife? Do you promise to love, honor, and protect her? Share the good times and achievements as well as the hard times and disappointments? Keep her in sickness and in sorrow and to be faithful to her forevermore.
I do.

Karyn, do you take Chris, to be your lawful wedded husband? Do you promise to love, honor, and protect him? Share the good times and achievements as well as the hard times and disappointments? Keep him in sickness and in sorrow and to be faithful to him forevermore.
I do

The Promises of Marriage

Marriage is a promise of companionship, of having someone to share all of life's experiences.
Marriage does not promise that there will not be any rough times, just the assurance that their will always be someone who cares and will help you through to better times.
Marriage does not promise eternal romance, just eternal love and commitment.
Marriage can't prevent disappointment, disillusionment, or grief, but it can offer hope, acceptance and comfort.
Marriage can't protect you from making individual choices or shelter you from the world but it will help to reassure you that there is someone by your side who truly cares.
When the world hurts you and makes you few feel vulnerable, marriage offers the promise that there will be someone waiting to listen, to console, to inspire.
Marriage is the joining of two people who share the promise that only marriage can make - to share the sunshine and the shadows, and to experience a richer, more filling life because of it.

Please join hands

I, Chris pledge to you Karyn as my friend, my love, and my companion to love, honor, and cherish as long as we both shall live.

I, Karyn pledge to you Chris as my friend, my love, and my companion to love, honor, and cherish as long as we both shall live.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
We pardon to the extent that we love.
Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again.
And the great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Loved for ourselves, And even loved in spite of ourselves.

The wedding ring is a symbol of the unbroken circle of love. Love freely given has no beginning and no end, no giver and no receiver for each of you is the giver and each is the receiver. May this ring remind you both of the vows, which you have freely taken.

Chris repeat after me:
I give you, whom I love above all others, this ring as a symbol of our love and marriage.

Karyn:
I will share my joy with you, that it be multiplied. I will share your pain, that it be divided. I will walk by your side as we travel together through life's changes. I will sleep in your arms and that love will be my home.

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 will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you.
May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through all the years, May happiness be your companion and your days together be good and long upon the earth.

Chris and Karyn, before this loving company you have consented to join yourselves in matrimony.
May your joys be sweet as spring flowers that grow, as bright as a fire when Winter winds blow, as countless as leaves that float down in the fall, as serene as the Love that keeps watch over all.

I now pronounce you husband and wife.

Chris, You may kiss your bride.

Michael and Trisha You have come here today to join yourselves in holy matrimony, which is an honorable, estate and therefore not to be entered into lightly, but with reverence and respect for the commitment you are now about to make.

If either of you know of any lawful reason you may not be legally wed I require you to speak now.

Michael, , do you take Trisha to he your Wife?
I do
Do you promise to love, honor, cherish and protect her, forsaking all others and holding only unto her?
I do

Trisha , do you take Michael to be your Husband?
I do
Do you promise to love, honor, cherish and protect him, forsaking all others and holding only unto him?
I do

(COMBINED VOWS AND RING VOWS)

I will share my joy with you, that it be multiplied. I will share your pain, that it be divided. I will walk by your side as we travel together through life's changes. I will sleep in your arms and that love will be my home.
I, Michael, give to you Trisha this ring, as a symbol of my commitment to love, honor, and respect you. I choose you, Trisha above all others, to be my wife.

I will share my joy with you, that it be multiplied. I will share your pain, that it be divided. I will walk by your side as we travel together through life's changes. I will sleep in your arms and that love will be my home.
I, Trisha, give to you Michael this ring, as a symbol of my commitment to love, honor, and respect you. I choose you, Michael above all others, to be my husband.

Michael and Trisha, as husband and wife you will have the opportunity to share many things: your hopes and your reams; your triumphs and successes; and your excitement with all that is new and different. If you share these things with each other, you shall both gain joy, strength, and peace in your married life.

Today you have both declared your consent to this marriage, Therefore, it is my privilege, by the power and authority vested in me by the state of New Hampshire, but most especially, by the power of your own love, to pronounce you husband and wife.

You may now seal your vows with a kiss.

JEREMY AND HILARY

Good evening, Jeremy and Hilary welcome you to their wedding. It is most important to them that you, friends and families are here with them today as they enter a new stage of their relationship. They thank you for your love and support throughout the years. Many of you have watched them grow from infants to gawky teenagers and now as confident adults they come before you and the world eager to assume the responsibilities of marriage.

In our long history we have never discovered a better way of life than sharing it together in marriage in a lasting and responsible way. This arrangement seems to meet our deepest human needs for love and companionship, for someone with whom we can share in an intimate and trusting way all the hopes and joy and dreams of life. But real love, is something beyond the warmth and glow, the excitement and romance of being deeply in love. It is caring as much about the welfare and happiness of your marriage partner as about your own. Real love is not total absorption into each other; it is looking outward in the same direction together. Love makes burdens lighter because you divide them. It makes joys more intense because you share them. It makes you both stronger, so you can be involved with life in ways you dare not risk alone.

Jeremy, are you ready to enter into this marriage with Hilary, believing the love you share and your faith in each other will endure all things?
I am.

Hilary, are you ready to enter into this marriage with Jeremy, believing the love you share and your faith in each other will endure all things
I am.

Hilary’s dear Aunt Sue would like to share a few words: reading

Vows

join hands

I Jeremy, take you Hilary to be my wedded wife, to have to hold, from this day on, for better and for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part. This I solemnly and happily vow.

I Hilary, take you Jeremy to be my wedded husband, to have to hold, from this day on, for better and for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part. This I solemnly and happily vow.

Since the beginning of time, the ring has been an emblem of the sincerity and permanance of a couple’s love for one another and regard for their marriage. These rings are symbols of your eternal love.

Repeat after me:
Jeremy: I give you this ring as a reminder that I love honor and cherish you, In all times, In all places And in all ways, forever.

Hilary: I give you this ring as a reminder that I love honor and cherish you, In all times, In all places And in all ways, forever.

When I spoke to Hilary as we were planing the wedding, she mentioned that she and Jeremy were friends. As all of you who have been in long relationships know, it is friendship and not youthful passion that makes a marriage last. This will be a long and happy marriage.

I wish to read to you from the Prophet:

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with hunger, and you seek him for peace. When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "aye." And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.
And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know the flood also. For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Jeremy and Hilary, you have come before this company today and echanged solemn vows and promises and have each given and received a ring to seal your vows. By these acts you have become a married couple.

Through the powers granted to me by the sovereign State of New Hampshire I now announce to all that you are husband and wife.

You may now kiss your bride

Derek & Melissa, you began your journey together in this beautiful spot fifteen years ago .
11 years ago, Melissa & Derek you joined your lives together in marriage, and in doing so, you combined your two separate lives in a new living reality.
Melissa & Derek, your lives have been joined together for 11 years. You have learned much. You have loved much. You have been blessed with your sons, Brett and Brian, who love and respect you. You are all cared for within your circle of family and friends and you are seen by all as a couple, as one family.

Over the years, you have learned the meaning of the words, “and the two shall become one”. You have joined together; yet, your individual identities have not been extinguished, but have burned brighter – because in becoming one you also have become more fully yourselves.
Love is like that – it brings to fullness and maturity all that is good.

A marriage ceremony represents one of life's greatest commitments. But it also is a declaration of love. I wish to read to you what Paul wrote of love in a letter to the Corinthians. I believe it is a true model of love and it is a model of love I hope you continue to pursue in your marriage:

"Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud. Love is never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable or touchy. Love does not hold grudges and will hardly notice when others do it wrong. Love is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out.
If you love someone, you will be loyal to them no matter what the costs. You will always believe in them, always expect the best in them, and will always stand your ground in defending them.

As you renew your vows, I urge you to recall those things that have made your relationship succeed, the self-giving, the patience, the making of space, the forgiveness, the encouragement, the telling of truth in love and the willingness to accept and trust one another.

Today you take a significant step in your relationship by declaring once more, that in spite of the difficulties and hardships of life, you will continued to love and be faithful to one another. You again commit yourselves to a love for one another that involves the total giving of yourselves to one another. You vow to accept each other totally, creating a safe and loving space for each other to continue to grow as individuals… partners… friends

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Face each other and join hands
I Derek take you again Melissa to be my wife, to laugh with you in joy, to grieve with you in sorrow, to grow with you in love, wherever life may take us, so that together, we may continue to grow, as partners through the rest of our lives.
I Melissa take you again Derek to be my husband, to laugh with you in joy, to grieve with you in sorrow, to grow with you in love, wherever life may take us, so that together, we may continue to grow, as partners through the rest of our lives.

: A circle is the ancient symbol of wholeness and peace. In the form of a ring the circle is the accepted token of a marriage covenant. As these rings are fashioned from a precious and durable metal, so may your love, nourished and sustained by the love of God, be the most precious and durable of the values you share. In giving and receiving these rings, you again acknowledge that your lives remain joined in one unbroken circle, wherever you go, you will always return to your shared life together.

I give you this ring that you may wear it as a continuing symbol of the renewal of our marriage vows.

May there be truth and understanding between you always. May you enjoy length of days, fulfillment of hopes and peace and contentment of mind. You may seal your vows with a kiss.

Before all who are present here today, Derek and Melissa have renewed their marriage vows. They have reconfirmed their oath of marriage by the joining of hands, the exchange of vows and by the giving of rings.

Therefore it is my pleasure to pronounce that they are once again forever and always, husband and wife.

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WEDDINGS IN NH