Brandon Edward Smith

Welcome, family, friends and loved ones.

We are gathered here today to celebrate the wedding of Christopher Fuller and Aleessa Smith. You have come here to share in the formal commitment they make to one another, to offer your love and support to this union, and to allow Christopher and Aleessa to start their married life together surrounded by the people dearest and most important to them.

Marriage is the greatest and most challenging adventure of human relationships. No ceremony can create your marriage; only you can do that through love and patience; through dedication and perseverance; through talking and listening; helping and supporting and believing in each other; through tenderness and laughter; through learning to forgive, learning to appreciate your differences, and by learning to make the important things matter, and to let go of the rest. What this ceremony can do is to witness and affirm the choice you make to stand together as lifemates and partners.

Do you Aleessa Smith take this man Christopher Fuller to be your lawfully wedded partner, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, in good times and woe, for richer or poorer, keeping yourself unto him for as long as you both shall live?

*(Wait for Confirmation)*

Do you Christopher Fuller take this woman Aleessa Smith to be your lawfully wedded partner, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, in good times and woe, for richer or poorer, keeping yourself unto her for as long as you both shall live?

*(Wait for Confirmation)*

Aleessa Smith and Christopher Fuller will now exchange rings as a symbol of their love and commitment.

*(Ring Exchange)*

Chris and Aleessa, today you are here to join both of your lives together. These two separate vases of sand symbolize your separate lives before you found each other. They symbolize your separate friends, family, and choices.

Today, both of you will seal your bond by blending these two individual vases together. Once the sand is blended together, it cannot be separated. Just as the sand cannot be separated, your friends and family are here today to witness your love never separating.

*(Blend sand)*

By blending these sands together, we are recognizing the importance of blending two families together. May you always honor and protect your family.

By the authority vested in me by American Marriage Ministries and the State of Pennsylvania I now pronounce you wife and husband!

Congratulations, you may kiss your bride.