Joy Gathings

Christina & Theodore's Wedding Ceremony

Christina and Theodore, you have decided this day to blend your lives in the unity of marriage.

As a new chapter of your story of Life begins today. Always remember to treat yourselves and each other with respect.

Take responsibility for making the other feel safe. And give the highest priority to the tenderness gentleness, and kindness. that your connection deserves.

When frustration and difficulty and fear assail, your relationship. Remember to focus on what is right between you and not just the part that seems wrong.

In this way, you can survive the times when clouds drift across the face of the sun in your lives, remembering that just because you may lose sight of it, for a moment does not mean the sun has gone away. And if each of you takes responsibility for the quality of your life together, it will be marked by abundance and delight.

Declaration of Intent:

Theodore repeat after me:

I Theodore, take you, Christina. To be my wife, my partner in life, and my one true love.

I will cherish our Union and love you more each day than I did the day before.

I will trust you and respect you, laugh with you and cry with you, loving you faithfully through good times and bad, regardless of the obstacles we may face together.

I give you my hand, my heart, and my love. From this day forward for as long as we both shall live.

Christina, repeat after me:

I, Christina, take you Theodore to be my husband, my partner in life, and my one true love. I will cherish our Union and love you more each day than the day I did the day before. I will trust you, respect you, laugh with you and cry with you, loving you faithfully. Through good times and bad regardless of the obstacles we may face together. I give you my hand, my heart, and my love. From this day forward, for as long as we both shall live.

Ring Exchange

Wedding rings are made precious by wearing them. Your ring says that even in your uniqueness you have chosen to be bound together.

Let these rings also be a sign that love has essence as well as soul, a present as well as a past, and that despite its occasional sorrows, love is a circle of happiness, wonder, and delight. May these rings remind you always of the vows you have taken here today.

Theodore repeat after me:

With this ring, I thee wed and pledge you, my love, now and forever.

Christina repeat after me:

With this ring, I thee wed and pledge you, my love, now and forever.

Pronouncement:

And now that you have stood before me and exchanged these rings and these vows and have agreed to be married. By the power vested in me by American Marriage Ministries and according to the law of the State of Oregon, it gives me immense pleasure to pronounce that you are husband and wife.

Theodore, you may kiss your wife Christina for the rest of your life.