Short Non Religious Wedding Ceremony With Heartfelt Invocation

PROCESSIONAL

• Guests are Seated.

INVOCATION

officiant to the reception

"Dear friends and family, we are gathered here today to witness and celebrate the union of [PARTNER A] and [PARTNER B]. In the years that they have been together, their love for each other has grown, turning them into the couple you see before you. Now, they are ready to spend the rest of their lives together as husband and wife.

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 [PARTNER A], take [PARTNER B] to be your wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do you part?"

• PARTNER A RESPONDS WITH AN AFFIRMATION.

OFFICIANT TO PARTNER B
"Do you [PARTNER B], take [PARTNER A] to be your Husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do you part?"

• PARTNER b RESPONDS WITH AN AFFIRMATION.

RINGS EXCHANGE

PARTNER A TO PARTNER B

"[PARTNER B], I give you this ring as a symbol of my love."

• PARTNER A PLACES THE RING ON PARTNER B'S FINGER.

PARTNER B TO PARTNER A

"[PARTNER A], I give you this ring as a symbol of my love."

• PARTNER B PLACES THE RING ON PARTNER A'S FINGER.

PRONOUNCEMENT

OFFICIANT TO THE RECEPTION

"By the power vested in me by the State of [WEDDING STATE], I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss your bride.

Family and Friends I present to you for the first time [PARTNER A] and [PARTNER B]!"

RECESSIONAL

End of the Wedding Ceremony.