Khristopher Allen Kling

Wedding script

Officiant: Please find your seats, we’ll start soon. "Greg" and "Kristin" politely request that everyone put their phones away and do not take pictures during the ceremony. There are professional photographers and they’d rather have pictures of your beautiful faces instead of phones. The professional photos will also be available to everyone upon request.

Processional

Welcome the parents of the groom. Gretchen and Jean Claud thill

Welcome our handsome groom Greg thill

Welcome best man Wes thill and mother of the bride Linda Grebler

Welcome the flower girl, Ivernia Grebler!

Welcome the maid of honor Rose Grebler

Everyone Please rise and welcome our beautiful bride Kristin Grebler escorted by her father Thomas grebler.

Everyone please be seated.

Officiant: Okay, I know we said no pictures, but I know you’re all desperate to take one, so you have 15 seconds to take one. Be quick! Okay, phones away!

Welcome, everyone. We gather here today to celebrate the wedding of Greg Thill and Kristin Grebler.

You all have come here to share in the formal commitment they are making to one another, to offer your love and support to this union, and to allow Greg and Kristin to start their married life together surrounded by the people dearest and most important to them.

So welcome to one and all, who have traveled from near and far. Greg and Kristin thank you for your presence here today and now ask for your blessing, encouragement, and lifelong support of their decision to be married.

Two people in love do not live in isolation. Their love is a source of strength with which they may nourish not only each other but also the world around them. And in turn, we, their community of family, have a responsibility to this couple. By our steadfast care, respect, and love, we can support their marriage and the new family they are creating here today.

Will you who are present here today, promise to surround Greg and Kristin in love, offering them the joys of your friendship and supporting them in their marriage? If so, please say “we will”.

GUESTS: We will.

Officiant: Thank you!

Officiant:  Greg and Kristin, you will now take part in a Tree Planting Ceremony, to symbolize your relationship and the continued growth of your love.

Greg and Kristin walk to tree

Greg and Kristin put tree in pot while Officiant continues.

Officiant: Let your marriage be like this tree you plant today. As you add the soil let this symbolize the foundation of love and commitment that you are building your life on. Let it grow lush and strong. Let it stand firm during the harsh winds, rains, and storms and come through unscathed. Like this tree, your marriage requires nurturing and nourishment. As you water this young tree, reflect on what your relationship requires to thrive. Remember that the needs of a relationship evolve, and remain attentive to the care required to maintain your bond.

As you consider the commitments you will continually make to each other, we come to the point of the ceremony where we would pronounce your vows.

Greg and Kristin walk back to altar

Officiant: However Greg and Kristin have decided with me witnessing to say their vows to each other in private before the ceremony.

DON’T WORRY! They didn’t see each other! They were both holding hands around a corner of their home.

Now Greg and Kristin I would like you both to reflect on that private moment and think of the beautiful words you shared with one another.

I ask you to remember that love—which is rooted in trust, and acceptance—will be the foundation of an abiding and deepening relationship. No other ties are more tender, no other vows more sacred than those you now assume. If you are able to keep the vows you take here today, not because of any civic law, but out of a desire to love and be loved by another person fully, without limitation, then your life will have joy and the home you establish will be a place in which you both will find the direction of your growth, your freedom, and your responsibility.

Officiant: May I have the rings please? Greg, please place the ring on Kristin’s finger and repeat after me.

“I give you this ring as a symbol of my love [Greg repeats] our strength together [Greg repeats] and my promise to learn and grow with you [Greg repeats]."

Kristin, please place the ring on Greg’s finger and repeat after me.

“I give you this ring as a symbol of my love ["Kristin" repeats] our strength together ["Kristin" repeats] and my promise to learn and grow with you ["Kristin" repeats]."

Officiant: Do you, "Greg", take this woman to be your wedded wife?

"Greg": I do.

Officiant: Do you, "Kristin", take this man to be your wedded husband?

"Kristin": I do.

Officiant: By the power of your love and commitment, and the power vested in me by the State of North Carolina, and the American Marriage Ministries, I now pronounce you husband and wife!

(Step away)

You may kiss!!