Nathan Edward Lynch

PROCESSIONAL

Welcome everyone. Michael and Danielle are blessed to be sharing this special day among you all. At this time we would like to get started.

INVOCATION

Dear friends and family, we are gathered here today to witness and celebrate the union of Michael Stevens and Danielle Folz. 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

(To the Groom)

Michael, please repeat after me. Today, I Michael take my place as your husband. May our days be long, and may they be seasoned with adventures, love, understanding and respect forever and ever. Today is the beginning of the rest of your lives. I choose to spend today, and all of my tomorrows with you.

So Michael do you take Danielle to be your wife?

(To the Bride)

Danielle, please repeat after me. Today, I Danielle take my place as your wife. May our days be long, and may they be seasoned with adventures, love, understanding and respect forever and ever. Today is the beginning of the rest of your lives. I choose to spend today, and all of my tomorrows with you.

So Danielle do you take Michael to be your husband?

RINGS EXCHANGE – RINGS PLEASE

(Groom to the Bride)

Michael, please repeat after me. Danielle, I give you this ring as a symbol of my love.

(place the ring on her finger)

(Bride to the Groom)

Danielle, please repeat after me. Michael, I give you this ring as a symbol of my love.

(place the ring on his finger)

PRONOUNCEMENT

By the power vested in me by the American Marriage Ministries and the State of Washington, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss your bride.

Family and Friends, I present to you for the first time Mr. and Mrs. Stevens!

RECESSIONAL

End of the Wedding Ceremony.