Ramon Vargas

Welcome, everyone. We are gathered here on this happiest of days to celebrate the union and marriage of Gabriela Vargas and Miguel Pobre. If you are listening to this, it's because you were invited here today as a representative of someone important in the lives of Gabriela and Miguel.

Some may think that love is completing one another, but these two are examples of what love truly is. They are not halves of each other; they are complete individuals, loving the whole of each other. Love is not when two people come together and become the "perfect couple". Love is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Gabriela and Miguel have found the person that they want to grow old with. The person who will laugh at their jokes and listen to what they have to say. The person who will lift the other up when they're down and support each other through their toughest adversities.

We all live one life, and we all live it for the first time. Gabriela and Miguel come together with a saying they have professed for their entire relationship so far, una vez para siempre, one time for all time. This is that time.

Now, Gabriela & Miguel, I have a few questions to ask you if you're ready.

Do you, Miguel, take Gabriela to be your wife and life companion in all of her successes and failures, her happiness and sadness, and always give her your unwavering love, encouragement, trust, and respect as together you create your future?

"I do."

Do you, Gabriela, welcome Miguel to be your husband and life companion in all of his successes and failures, his happiness and sadness, and always give him your unwavering love, encouragement, trust, and respect as together you create your future?

"I do."

May you experience faith in a way that will allow your relationship to grow as you share in all the joys, success and failures of your marriage.

As you continue your journey through life together, may your union continuously bind closer together in love that is pure and everlasting faithfulness.

Before these witnesses, you have pledged to be joined in marriage. You have now sealed this pledge with your wedding rings, vows and through the veil and cord.

By the authority vested in me by the great State of Oregon, I now pronounce you husband and wife. Miguel you may now kiss the bride!