Felina Kay Rancifer

Introduction

Officiant

Thank you, family, and friends, for joining us on this very special occasion.

My name is Felina Washington and I have the honor and please to officiate the wedding of this beautiful couple. So please sit back, relaxed and enjoy the service.

Invocation

Officiant:

Today we gathered friends & family to celebrate the love and union of Breiuna Lewis and Eddie Finley. They have gathered each of you here to be a part of this ceremony as they make a lifelong commitment to each other. Marriage is a sacred covenant, a lifelong commitment of love and support. Let us begin this celebration with a prayer.

Prayer

Father God, we thank you for the gift of marriage.

For all the joy and love that it brings with it.

We thank you for Breiuna and Eddie today.

We are so thankful that you have brought them together for this special day,

and that you continue bless them with the inner gifts of trust, compassion, forgiveness, and truth that they may live and grow together in love and peace. We as all of these blessing in Jesus name.

Amen.

Declaration of Intent

Please face each other and hold hands. The words you’re about to express are your binding promises to love, honor, and cherish one another. Please answer by saying I do.

Groom: Do you, Eddie Finley, take you, Breiuna Lewis, to be your lawfully wedded wife, to live together in matrimony, to love and honor her, in sickness and in health, richer or poorer for as long as you both shall live?

I do

Bride: Do you Breiuna Lewis, take you, Eddie Finley to be your lawfully wedded husband, to live together in matrimony, to love and honor her, in sickness and in health, richer or poorer for as long as you both shall live?

I do

Exchange of rings the couple will now exchange rings.

The rings you exchange today are the physical embodiment of the love you share. These rings represent the commitment made today and the devotion of you both made to each other. When you look at the down these rings remember this time, this play right now.

Eddie, as you place the ring on Breana’s left ring finger please repeat after me: I give you this ring as a symbol of my love and faithfulness. As I place it on your finger, I commit my heart and soul to you. I ask you to wear this ring as a reminder of the vows we have spoken today, our wedding day.”

Breiuna as you place the ring on left ring finger on Eddie’s left ring finger. Please repeat after me: I give you this ring as a symbol of my love and faithfulness. As I place it on your finger, I commit my heart and soul to you. I ask you to wear this ring as a reminder of the vows we have spoken today, our wedding day.”

The couple has decided to conclude their wedding ceremony with a unity sand ceremony.

Breiuna and Eddie, today you join your separate lives together. The two separate bottles of sand symbolize your separate lives, separate families, and separate sets of friends.

They represent all that you are and all that you’ll ever be as an individual. They also represent your lives before today.

As these two containers of sand are poured into the third container, the individual containers of sand will no longer exist, but will be joined together as one. Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into individual containers, so will your marriage be. (After sand is poured, couple will face the officiant)

By the authority vested in me by American Marriage Ministries and the state of Arkansas I now pronounce you husband and wife.

You may KISS YOUR BRIDE!

Please welcome MR. & Mrs. Finnley