James Perry Keith

(PROCESSIONAL)

GUESTS ARE SEATED.

(INVOCATION)

OFFICIANT TO THE RECEPTION

"Dear friends and family, we are gathered here today to witness and celebrate the union of [Michael Lawson] and (Stephenie Bjorkman]. In the years that they have been together, their love for each other has grown, turning them into the couple you see before you. Now, they are ready to spend the rest of their lives together as husband and wife.

A true marriage begins well before the wedding day, and the efforts of marriage continue well beyond the ceremony. A brief moment in time and the stroke of the pen are all that is required to create the legal bond of marriage, but it takes a lifetime of love, commitment, and compromise to make marriage durable and everlasting.

Today you declare your commitment to each other before family and friends."

(DECLARATION OF INTENT)

(VOWS)

(OFFICIANT) (Please face each other and hold hands)

(MICHAEL) (Please repeat after me.)

I, Michael take you Stephenie to be my wife, my partner in life and my one true love.

I will cherish our friendship and love you today, tomorrow, and forever.

I will trust you and honor you.

I will laugh with you and cry with you.

I will love you faithfully.

Through the best and the worst, Through the difficult and the easy.

Whatever may come I will always be there.

As I have given you my hand to hold.

So I give you my life to keep.

(OFFICIANT)

(STEPHENIE) (Please repeat after me)

I, (Stephenie) take you Michael to be my Husband, my partner in life and my one true love.

I will cherish our friendship and love you today, tomorrow, and forever.

I will trust you and honor you.

I will laugh with you and cry with you.

I will love you faithfully.

Through the best and the worst, Through the difficult and the easy.

Whatever may come I will always be there.

As I have given you my hand to hold.

So I give you my life to keep.

(RINGS EXCHANGE)

(OFFICIANT) Now it is time for the exchange of rings.

MICHAEL to STEPHENIE

"[Stephenie], I give you this ring as a symbol of my love."

Michael PLACES THE RING ON Stephenie's FINGER.

STEPHENIE to MICHAEL

"[Michael], I give you this ring as a symbol of my love."

Stephenie PLACES THE RING ON Michael's FINGER.

(PRONOUNCEMENT)

(OFFICIANT TO THE RECEPTION)

"By the power vested in me by the State of [ARIZONA], I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss your bride.

Family and Friends I present to you for the first time [Michael and Stephenie Lawson] !"

(RECESSIONAL)

End of the Wedding Ceremony.