Toni Edwards

INVOCATION:

Welcome family and loved ones. We are gathered here today, surrounded by the beauty of creation, to celebrate the joining of Don Allan Moore and Stacy Ann Lane in marriage.

Today is a celebration. A celebration of love, of commitment, of friendship, of family, and of two people who are in it for forever.

All of us here today have our own love stories. Some are short, others long. Some are yet unwritten, while others are just getting to the good part. And that brings them here. A time to pause, look back, and smile at all the moments that brought them here. And a time to look ahead at all the moments that are still yet to come.

You fell in love by chance, but you're here today because you're making a choice. You both are choosing each other. You've chosen to be with someone who enhances you, who makes you think, makes you smile, and makes every day brighter. You're about to make promises to each other that you intend to keep. You're going to vow to take care of each other, to honor one another, and find happiness in each other. There's a simple premise to each of these promises: you're vowing to be there. You're teaming up and saying to the other, "With every experience I am going to have, I want you to be a part of it".

DECLARATION OF INTENT:

Don and Stacy, please join hands, look at one another now and remember this moment in time.

Will you, Don, keep Stacy as your favorite person - to laugh with her, go on adventures with her, support her through life's tough moments, be proud of, to grow old with and to find new reasons to love her every day?

Don: I do.

Will you, Stacy, keep Don as your favorite person - to laugh with him, go on adventures with him, support him through life's tough moments, be proud of, to grow old with and to find new reasons to love him every day?

Stacy: I do.

RING EXCHANGE:

Don, as you place this ring on Stacy's finger, repeat these words after me: This ring symbolizes my love for you and the commitments we made today.

Stacy, as you place this ring on Don's finger, repeat these words after me: This ring symbolizes my love for you and the commitments we made today.

PRONOUNCEMENT:

Don and Stacy, you have come here today of your own free will and in the presence of family and loved ones, have declared your love and commitment to one another. You have given and received rings as a symbol of your promises. By the power of your love and commitment to each other, and by the power vested in me by the State of Texas and American Marriage Ministries, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss the bride.

Congratulations! Family and loved ones, I now present to you the newly married couple, Stacy and Don Moore! Let's hear it for them!