Ronnie P Richard

Deb and Mick, when you first joined hands and hearts in marriage many years ago, you did not know where life would take you.

You promised to love, honor and cherish one another through all things. Life has surely brought you both wonderful blessings and difficult challenges over the years.

But here you are today, having fulfilled the vows to love, honor and cherish you each made on your wedding day. And God is smiling!

As you celebrate here today, and as you reflect over all the years as husband and wife, do you now wish to reaffirm the vows you took years ago?

WE DO

Please face each other and join hands.

Mick, will you continue to have Deb as your wife and continue to live in this happy and loving marriage?

Mick: I WILL

Do you reaffirm your love for her, and will you love, honor, and cherish her in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better for worse, and forsaking all others, be faithful to her for as long as you both shall live?

Mick: I DO

Deb, will you continue to have Mick as your husband and continue to live in this happy and loving marriage?

Deb: I WILL

Do you reaffirm your love for him, and will you love, honor, and cherish him in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better for worse, and forsaking all others, be faithful to him for as long as you both shall live?

Deb: I DO

Deb and Mick, on your wedding day you exchanged rings as a symbol of the never-ending circle that symbolizes the eternal quality of God, unending strength, and unending love!

May you always wear your rings as a reminder of your wedding vows to each other, and your commitment to continuing to live in unity, love, and happiness. To remind you of that commitment made on your wedding day, you will now renew your pledge.

Mick, please place the ring on Deb’s finger and repeat after me, with this ring, I renew my pledge of love and commitment

Deb, please place the ring on Mick’s finger and repeat after me, with this ring, I renew my pledge of love and commitment

Marriage is a commitment to learning to care for one another in mutually fulfilling ways. It is not an act but a life-long relationship always in the making.

Marriage deepens and enriches every facet of life.

Happiness is fuller, memories are fresher, commitment is stronger, even anger is felt more strongly, and passes away more quickly.

Marriage understands and forgives the mistakes life is unable to avoid. It encourages and nurtures new life, new experiences, and new ways of expressing a love that is deeper than life.

When two people pledge their love and care for each other in marriage, they create a spirit unique unto themselves which binds them closer than any spoken or written words.

Marriage is a promise made in the hearts of two people who love each other and the potential of marriage requires a lifetime to fulfill.

Mick and Deb, today you have renewed the promises and vows you made to each other on your wedding day. You have symbolized the renewal of the marriage union by the joining of hands, the taking of vows, and by exchanging rings

It is with pleasure that I conclude the ceremony of renewing the vows of marriage that joined you and forever binds you as husband and wife. Please celebrate this renewal of vows with a sign of affection…. You may kiss!