Glen Micah Raabe

WEDDING PROCESSION / PROCESSIONAL

OPENING WORDS

[OFFICIANT TO THE RECEPTION]

"We are all here as family, Thank you all for coming today to share in this wonderful occasion. Today we are here together to unite Aaric and Rexton in marriage."

EXCHANGE OF VOWS

[OFFICIANT TO COUPLE]

Your marriage vows are the promises you make for the years ahead. They are a symbol of the love and commitment you’ll nurture, a kind of magic, a spiritual spellcasting, an incantation under the stars. They are the truest mark of your marriage, the pledge and threads that will bind you, heart to heart, and hand in hand.

Now, as you look lovingly at each other, you’ll speak these promises, of a lifetime of love to come.

[OFFICIANT TO AARIC]

Aaric, please repeat after me:

Today, I give you my heart and my hand.

I take you as my life’s companion,

My partner, friend, and lover.

I promise to honor the gift of our love,

to support you and comfort you,

for better or worse, in good times and bad.

I promise to laugh with you,

To grow with you,

And to walk beside you faithfully,

In constant and tireless love,

Each day and each night,

And every season to come.

OFFICIANT TO REXTON

Now Rexton, please repeat after me:

Today, I give you my heart and my hand.

I take you as my life’s companion,

My partner, friend, and lover.

I promise to honor the gift of our love,

to support you and comfort you,

for better or worse, in good times and bad.

I promise to laugh with you,

To grow with you,

And to walk beside you faithfully,

In constant and tireless love,

Each day and each night,

And every season to come.

DECLARATION OF INTENT

[OFFICIANT / PARENT TO THE COUPLE]

Aaric and Rexton, do you now commit to forging a life together—to the difficult yet endlessly rewarding adventure of creating a new family from your intersecting lives?

[REXTON AND AARIC]

(Together) We do!

EXCHANGE OF WEDDING RINGS

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

[OFFICIANT TO COUPLE]

Now, you will exchange a physical symbol of your love and of the light that you bring to each other’s lives.

Your wedding ring is a circle, a bright symbol of love’s infinite flow, of life’s infinite cycles. Your ring is a reminder of the wheel of the world as it turns, of long nights met with a still brighter dawn, of renewal and recommitment, of blessed wholeness.

The rings you exchange today symbolize the unbreakable promises you’ve made, to love each other boldly, proudly, and without end.

[OFFICIANT TO AARIC]

Aaric, place the ring on Rexton’s left ring finger, and repeat after me:

Rexton, I give you this ring as a symbol of my love, today, tomorrow, in darkness and light.

OFFICIANT TO REXTON

Rexton, place the ring on Aaric’s left ring finger, and repeat after me:

Aaric, I give you this ring as a symbol of my love, today, tomorrow, in darkness and light.

PRONOUNCEMENT OF MARRIAGE / CLOSING WORDS

[OFFICIANT TO THE RECEPTION]

"By the authority vested in me by the State of Washington, it’s a true joy to pronounce you Husband and Wife. Congratulations!”

“You may celebrate with a kiss!”

WEDDING RECESSION / RECESSIONAL

End of the Wedding Ceremony.