Tammy Messer

Good evening! Roy and Melanie are happy that you are here to share this very special occasion in their lives.

Today will be the day they celebrate every year for the rest of their lives. But a true marriage begins well before the wedding day, and the efforts of marriage continue well beyond the ceremony. The few minutes we’ll spend here today and an ink pen are all that is required to create the legal bond of marriage, but it takes years together filled with love, commitment and compromise (lots of compromise!) to make a marriage that lasts.

Remind yourselves often what brought you together, what made you fall in love.

If you will please turn and face each other (join hands).

Do you, Roy Paul, take Melanie Nikol, freely and without reservation, forsaking all others, to be your wife, to honor, to cherish, to love and protect, from this day forward, for as long as you both shall live?

“I do”

Do you, Melanie Nikol, take Roy Paul, freely and without reservation, forsaking all others, to be your husband, to honor, to cherish, to love and protect, from this day forward, for as long as you both shall live?

“I do”

You also have chosen rings for each other. Let these rings remind you always of the vows you’ve taken today. Let them remind you that despite the occasional sorrows, love is a circle of happiness, wonder and delight. As you place it on your loves finger, repeat after me.

Roy - Melanie, I give you this ring as a symbol of my unending love and faithfulness.

Melanie - Roy, I give you this ring as a symbol of my unending love and faithfulness.

Now that you have said your vows and exchanged rings, I want to wish you both much love and happiness. Remember to keep lots of laughter in your life and don’t sweat the small stuff! May you each be blessed and may your life together be blessed.

By the power vested in me by the state of Louisiana, I now pronounce you husband and wife. Melanie, you may kiss your groom!

Family and friends, I now have the honor of presenting Mr and Mrs Condrey!