Christopher R. Wysong

INVOCATION

OFFICIANT TO THE RECEPTION

"Family and Friends, thank you all for coming today to share this wonderful occasion. Today we are here together to unite Brian and Caisa in marriage."

“You don't marry the person you can live with—you marry the person you can't live without.”

DECLARATION OF INTENT

OFFICIANT TO BRIAN

"Do you, Brian, take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife, to live together in matrimony, to love her, comfort her, honor and keep her, in sickness and in health, in sorrow and in joy, to have and to hold from this day forward, as long as you both shall live?"

BRIAN TO CAISA

"I do."

OFFICIANT TO CAISA

"Do you, Caisa, take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband, to live together in matrimony, to love him, comfort him, honor and keep him, in sickness and in health, in sorrow and in joy, to have and to hold from this day forward, as long as you both shall live?"

CAISA TO BRIAN

"I do."

RINGS EXCHANGE

OFFICIANT TO THE RECEPTION

"Brian and Caisa have chosen rings to exchange with each other as a symbol of their unending love."

OFFICIANT TO BRIAN

"Brian, as you place this ring on Caisa's finger, please repeat after me. With this ring, I thee wed, and pledge you, my love, now and forever."

• BRIAN REPEATS THE PHRASE AS THEY PLACE THE RING ON CAISA'S FINGER.

OFFICIANT TO CAISA

"Caisa, as you place this ring on Brian's finger, please repeat after me. With this ring, I thee wed, and pledge you, my love, now and forever."

• CAISA REPEATS THE PHRASE AS THEY PLACE THE RING ON BRIAN'S FINGER.

PRONOUNCEMENT

OFFICIANT TO THE RECEPTION

"By the authority vested in me by the State of Ohio, I now pronounce you Husband and Wife. You may now kiss the bride!"