Natasha Patricia Elwood

Welcome, family, friends and loved ones. We are gathered here today to witness and celebrate the marriage of Teia and brian

Your presence serves as a symbol of the love and support that each of you offers, and allows them to officially start their life together surrounded by the people dearest and most important to them.

Teia and Brian, we welcome you to this moment in your lives and to the place you have earned in each other’s hearts.

We join with you on this day, as you commit before God and everyone present, that from this point forward you shall live as one.

Let us take a moment to remember those who can’t be with us today, either because of distance or because they have gone before us. In particular, let's remember the parents of teia and Brian who went before, let the crosses hear be there way to be here today,

Brian and Teia, are you now prepared to tackle together the most intricate, most rewarding and most consequential challenge of your lives?

We are!

Teai and Brian, today you join together your separate journeys. As a symbol of that remarkable endeavor, I now invite you to approach the unity puzzle, side by

This puzzle represents the many challenges you will face during your life together. Some of these will be easy, and others will be hard. You can expect times when you will struggle to find the way, and times when you need to try several approaches to find the one that works.

Like the many facets of your individual lives and your life together, each piece of this puzzle is unique. The contours and outlines vary from one to another, yet there IS a solution—they complement one another and, together, they constitute something meaningful and lovely that is greater than any of the separate parts.

May your marriage be like this puzzle: rich and inspiring, full of challenges that hone your ability to understand, to cope and to enhance one another’s efforts.

May you grow together, strengthened by what you have accomplished in tandem and firm in your resolve to master any problem that life brings you.

May your joyful search for solutions inspire those around you in their own quests.

May I have the rings, please?

Teia and Brian, I now invite you to commit to one another that you will each serve as a respite and a resource for the other—that you will strive together to solve the problems that come your way.

Brian, please place Teai’s ring on her finger and repeat after me:

I, Brian, take you, Teia, to be my partner in this great adventure.

I promise to work at your side to master any challenges that come our way.

I will cheerfully support your efforts and treasure your guidance and insights.

I will devote my full energies to our shared life

and celebrate each riddle we solve togather.

TEIA, please place Brian’s ring on his finger and repeat after me:

I, Teia, take you, Brian, to be my partner in this great adventure.

I promise to work at your side to master any challenges that come our way.

I will cheerfully support your efforts and treasure your guidance and insights.

I will devote my full energies to our shared life

and celebrate each riddle we solve together.

By the power vested in me by the State of OHIO, and American Marriage Ministries, and through the witness of all here present, I now Prounounce you husband and wife.

You may now kiss the bride.

It is my pleasure to present, for the first time as a married couple, TEIA AND BRIAN MOORE!