Gerald John Romero

After Natalie comes to the front:

Welcome, family and friends. We are gathered here today to celebrate the love and commitment of Scott and Natalie. Today, we have gathered friends and family to celebrate the love and union of Scott and Natalie. They have gathered each of you here to be a part of this ceremony as they make a lifelong commitment to each other.

You may sit down.

A reflection on the meaning of love and marriage, often sharing a personal story about the couple.

Were going to play a song now, and during that song, I would like to invite those of you who wish to do so to come up and gather around Scott and Natalie and silently pray for them and bless them. You can lay your hands on them if you're close enough. If not, you can lay your hand on the person in front of you.

-SONG STARTS-

"Now, let us pray,

Heavenly Father, we are here on this day to give thanks for the love you have shared with these two individuals. We ask that you help Scott and Natalie to always remember when they first met and to remember the strong love that grew between them. To work that love into practical things so that nothing divides them. Please help them find words both kind and loving and hearts, always ready to ask for forgiveness as well as able to forgive. Father, we put this marriage in your hands.

"Amen."

Before the Ceremony this evening, Scott and Natalie chose to share their vows privately with each other.

So you two, we are at the heart of your ceremony, the part of your wedding day where everything shifts. On one level, you’ll walk away from this ceremony, and nothing will have changed – still the same deep love, still the same commitment, still the same life you’ve been so beautifully building together. And, on another level, something will be profoundly different. Rather than just a couple in love, you will be legally married, and you will have made official vows and promises to one another, with witnesses, in sacred trust. Please hold hands to give your consent and vows in marriage

*(Vows)*

Do you, Scott Michael Bachelder, take this woman, Natalie Grace Ann Garrison, to be your lawfully wedded partner, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, in good times and woe, for richer or poorer, keeping yourself unto her for as long as you both shall live?

*(Wait for Confirmation)*

Do you, Natalie Grace Ann Garrison, take this man, Scott Michael Bachelder, to be your lawfully wedded partner, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, in good times and woe, for richer or poorer, keeping yourself unto him for as long as you both shall live?

*(Wait for Confirmation)*

Unity Sand Ceremony

"Scott and Natalie, today you join your separate lives to make one. The two separate bottles of sand symbolize your separate lives, separate families, and separate sets of friends: they represent all that you are and all that you will ever be as an individual. They also represent your lives before today. As these two containers of sand are emptied, the individual containers of sand no longer exist, but will be joined together as one. And just as these grains of sand can never be separated, neither will your love."

Please pour your sand to unify your lives together.

-song-

Scott Michael Bachelder and Natalie Grace Ann Garrison will now exchange rings as a symbol of their love and commitment.

*(Ring Exchange)*

You have made your vows, which are promises for the married life that you are beginning right now in this moment. We witness and bless your vows for the lifetime of your marriage. And so we come to the rings. The final ritual in a wedding ceremony is to make your commitment tangible – your rings are the physical representation of the promises you have made to one another today. They symbolize the sanctity of your marriage and are a constant reminder of your love.

May we please have the ring for Scott to give to Natalie?

hands the ring to the Officiant, then the Officiant says to Scott

“Scott, this ring is a circle of strength with no beginning or end and with no point of weakness. May this ring be a constant reminder of the promises you have made today (hand the ring to Scott). Please place it on Natalie’s finger, and repeat after me

With this ring I thee wed.

I give you this ring as a symbol of our commitment

and our connection.

May we please have the ring for Natalie to give to Scott?

hands the ring to the Officiant, then the Officiant says to Natalie

“Natalie, this ring is a circle of strength with no beginning or end and with no point of weakness. May this ring be a constant reminder of the promises you have made today (hand the ring to Natalie). Please place it on Scott’s finger, and repeat after me

With this ring I thee wed.

I give you this ring as a symbol of our commitment

and our connection.”

asks Scott & Natalie to join hands again if they haven’t already…

Your ring exchange is complete, you have made your promises for your married life, and you have given your consent in marriage. With the witness of your friends and family, and the blessing of love that connects us all, you are now joined together in this most sacred commitment of marriage. May the two of you be blessed with a lifetime of health, wealth, love, success, and happiness. May you continue to support one another in the wonderful way that you already do, may your love and connection grow exponentially over the years, and may your life together flourish as you walk the journey of it, hand in hand.

By the power vested in me by the State of Arizona, and by the power of your own commitment and choice within, I now pronounce you married. You may now kiss your bride

I now present to you Mr. & Mrs. Bachelder!!