Nicole Nelson

Ceremony begins

INVOCATION

Thank you all for joining us to celebrate 50 years of marriage for this amazing couple, I am blessed enough to call Mom & Dad.

NIKKI TO MOM & DAD

Mom & Dad when you first joined hands and hearts in marriage 50 years ago, you didn't know where life would take you. You promised to love, honor, and cherish one another through all of life's blessings and challenges. A few of those blessings - somewhat in order - were your first home together, your amazing beautiful, kind, smart, generous, okay, okay...two daughters, 2 dogs, 2 rabbits, 2 rats, goldfish from the fair that proved to be immortal, an invisble friend named Shayna Bayna (Nikki waves), 3 handsome grandsons, 2 beautiful granddaughters and 5 fur grandchildren.

Life has surely brought you both wonderful blessings and difficult challenges over the years. But here you are today, having fulfilled the vows and promises you each made on your wedding day.

RECOGNITION OF FAMILY/FRIENDS

Today as Dan and Sue re-seal their commitment to each other in front of their loved ones, they also promise their continued commitment to the those near and dear to their hearts, all of you here today.

We recognize the significant role that each of you have played in the marriage we celebrate today. You are family and friends drawn together by love and held together by devotion.

VOW RENEWAL / exchange of vows

NIKKI TO MOM & DAD

As you celebrate here today, and as you reflect back over all the years as husband and wife, let's reaffirm the vows you took 50 years ago.

NIKKI TO MOM & DAD

Please face each other and join hands.

NIKKI TO DAD

Dad will you continue to have Mom as your wife and continue to live together in this happy and loving marriage?

DAD

I will

NIKKI TO DAD

Do you reaffirm your love for Mom, and will you continue to love, honor, and cherish her in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better, for worse, and forsaking all others, be faithful to her for as long as you both shall live?

DAD

I do.

NIKKI TO MOM

Mom, will you continue to have Dad as your husband and continue to live together in this happy and loving marriage?

MOM

I will.

NIKKI TO MOM

Do you reaffirm your love for Dad, and will you continue to love, honor, and cherish him in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better, for worse, and forsaking all others, be faithful to him for as long as you both shall live?

MOM

I do.

PRONOUNCEMENT

Nikki to Mom & Dad

Mom and Dad, today you have renewed the promises and vows you made to each other on your wedding day 50 years ago.

It is with pleasure that I conclude this ceremony, renewing the vows of marriage that joined you and that forever bind you as a couple.

Dad, you may now kiss your forever bride!

End of ceremony