Elizabeth M Wayne

Welcome everyone to the wedding of Raven Ditto and Joseph Kinlaw. Let's take a moment to feel the connection and warmth in this place--a closeness the cannot be obscured by any amount of distance and precaution.

We've come here today to celebrate the most intimate of bonds between two people, marriage, during one of the most unique moments in history. You are not just guests at a wedding, but the closest and dearest people to these two - the friends and family that hold them up and help them face any challenge. We are so happy you were able to make it here to today, to witness and honor the love that Raven and Joseph share.

Before the vows, the bride and groom have requested the reading of 1 Corinthians chapter 13:4,7-8. Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs, it does not delight in evil, it rejoices with the truth, it always protects, it always trusts, it always hopes, it always perseveres, love never fails.

Do you Joseph, take Raven to be your lawfully wedded wife; to give your life to her and all that life entails; to take her as she is, loving who she is as well as who she has yet to be, to promise from this day forward to be grateful for your love and your life together, to take the good with the bad, to be generous with your time, energy and affection, to live with you in the commitment of faith, the security of hope and the joy of your love as long as you both shall live?

[I DO-PLACES RING ON RAVENS FINGER]

Do you Raven, take Joseph to be your lawfully wedded husband to give your life to him and all that life entails; to take him as he is, loving who he is as well as who he has yet to be, to promise from this day forward to be grateful for your love and your life together, to take the good with the bad, to be generous with your time, energy and affection, to live with you in the commitment of faith, the security of hope and the joy of your love as long as you both shall live?

[I DO-PLACES RING ON JOSEPHS FINGER]

By the authority vested in me by American Marriage Ministries and the State of Kentucky it is my great honor to introduce you to the new Mr and Mrs Kinlaw.