Roch S. Jones

Invocation:

Welcome to our beloved and honored guests. We’re gathered here today to celebrate Egbert and Tambra, as they make a promise of love and commitment to one another.

What a gift and joy to find someone with whom to spend our life! Committing to share our brightest days and weather our darkest nights with someone and no small thing and cannot be done lightly. Commitment is about trust. It’s about patience, forgiveness, devotion, and hope. It’s what happens when a relationship becomes a home – a place of safety and love – to which each partner can return, again and again.

As we reflect on the profound power of trust and commitment to create strong and lasting families, we look to those who have been most touched by the love between Egbert and Tambra.

Declaration of Intent:

“Do you Egbert, promise to spend your life with Tambra, meeting each new joy and sorrow together, continuing to deepen your understanding of them, treating them with kindness and compassion, and welcoming each new chapter of life together with a spirit of curiosity and patience?”

Egbert: I do.

“Do you Tambra, promise to spend your life with Egbert, meeting each new joy and sorrow together, continuing to deepen your understanding of them, treating them with kindness and compassion, and welcoming each new chapter of life together with a spirit of curiosity and patience?”

Tambra: I do.

Egbert and Tambra will now exchange vows and rings as a symbol of their love and commitment.

Egbert: personal vows and ring.

Tambra: personal vows and ring.

Pronouncement:

“With the trust of you all here today, I now declare you joined in love. You may now kiss.