Raquel Solomon

I HAVE A QUICK ANNOUNCEMENT, AT THE REQUEST OF THE BRIDE AND GROOM I WOULD LIKE TO KINDLY ASK THAT YOU PLEASE SILENCE YOUR PHONES AND NOT TAKE ANY VIDEOS OR PHOTOS DURING THE CEREMONY. THANK YOU!

Good Afternoon Family, Friends and Honored Guest,

We are gathered together here to join Brandon Jackson and Marika Diaz 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.

I would like to share with you First Corinthians

(READING I CORINTHIANS)

Brandon Jackson and Marika Diaz will now share their vows.

VOW EXCHANGE - YOUR PERSONAL VOWS

(I WILL GIVE YOU A MOMENT TO ADJUST THEN I WILL CONTINUE)

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

*(Wait for Confirmation)*

Do you Marika take this man Brandon Jackson 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 him for as long as you both shall live?

*(Wait for Confirmation)*

CORD AND VEIL

Brandon and Marika have chosen to participate in the veil and cord ceremony. The veil is use to symbolize the couple's unity and the church's blessing to live under one roof.

(READING OF VEIL AND CORD PASSAGE)

(NEXT READING BELOW)

Love is patient; love is kind

Love is not envious or boastful, arrogant or rude

It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful

It does not rejoice in wrong doing; but rejoices in truth

Love bears all thing, believes all things, hopes all things and endures all things.

And now faith, hope, and love abide and the greatest of these is love

RING EXCHANGE

Brandon Jackson and Marika Diaz will now exchange rings as a symbol of their love and commitment.

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

You may kiss the bride!

(OFFICIANT STEPS OUT OF THE WAY SO PHOTOGRAPHERS CAPTURE KISS)

I PRESENT TO YOU MR. & MRS. JACKSON!

EVERYONE CLAPS!!