Jason P Bull

Dearly Beloved and Honored Guests,

We are gathered together here to join Tracy and Joseph in the spiritual union of marriage.

This contract is not to be entered into lightly but thoughtfully and seriously, and with a deep realization of its obligations and responsibilities. Please remember that love, loyalty, and understanding are the foundations of a happy home.

Reading:

Genesis 2:24

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: And they shall be one flesh.

Tracy and Joseph will now share their vows.

*(Vows)*

Tracy and Joseph have chosen to affirm their love by the lighting of a unity candle. They signal their desire to not only join as one in their union but also unite two families as one. For every human being their rises a light and when two souls that are destined for each other find one another, their streams of light flow together as a single, brighter light goes forth from their united being.

Tracy and Joseph, please take each candle and symbolize your unity as one by lighting the one candle together.

Do you Tracy take this man Joseph to be your lawfully wedded Husband, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, in good times and woe, for richer or poorer, keeping yourself unto him for as long as you both shall live?

*(Wait for Confirmation)*

Do you Joseph take this woman Tracy to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, in good times and woe, for richer or poorer, keeping yourself unto her for as long as you both shall live?

*(Wait for Confirmation)*

Joseph and Tracy will now exchange rings as a symbol of their love and commitment.

Joseph, taking the ring and placing it on Tracy's finger and repeat after me, "with this ring, I thee wed"

Tracy, taking the ring and placing it on Josephs finger, repeat after me "With this ring, I thee wed

By the authority vested in me by the State of Minnesota I now pronounce you Husband and Wife!