Ramonda Lowery Byrd

Dearly Beloved and Honored Guests,

We are gathered together here to join CLARNICKI SHANTE LEWIS and MARGARET TEKENYA MCFADDEN LIVINGSTON 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 and enduring home.

CLARNICKI SHANTE LEWIS and MARGARET TEKENYA MCFADDEN LIVINGSTON will now share their vows.

*(Vows)*

Do you CLARNICKI SHANTE LEWIS take this woman MARGARET TEKENYA MCFADDEN LIVINGSTON to be your lawfully wedded partner, 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)*

Do you MARGARET TEKENYA MCFADDEN LIVINGSTON take this woman CLARNICKI SHANTE LEWIS to be your lawfully wedded partner, 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)*

*(Sand Ceremony)*

We have 3 colors present here with the white sand symbolizing the purity of the marriage and how Jesus is the Rock of the marriage. The other 2 colors represents your individual lives. I'm going to start pouring the white sand to set the foundation of the marriage. CLARNICKI and MARGARET please pour your sand. As you pour your sand together it shows how your lives were once separate, it shows how your lives are now becoming intertwined as one. Just as it would be impossible to separate these sands once poured, your union shall make it inseparable as well.

CLARNICKI SHANTE LEWIS and MARGARET TEKENYA MCFADDEN LIVINGSTON will now exchange rings as a symbol of their love and commitment.

*(Ring Exchange)*

Prayer

Now let us pray

Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus we are here on this day to give thanks for the love you have shared with these two individuals. We ask that you help CLARNICKI and MARGARET to always remember when they first met and to remember the strong love that grew between them. To work that love into practical things so that nothing divides them. Please help then find words both kind and loving and hearts that are always ready to ask for forgiveness as well as able to forgive. Father God we put this marriage in your hands and in Jesus Name we pray Amen.

By the authority vested in me by American Marriage Ministries and the State of North Carolina I now pronounce you wife and wife!