JoAnn Marie Wieszczyk

Dearly Beloved and Honored Guests,

We are gathered together here to join Madeline Bell and Christopher Orlando in the spiritual union of marriage.

This contract is not to be entered into lightly but thoughtfully and seriously, and with a deep realization of its obligations and responsibilities. Please remember that love, loyalty, and understanding are the foundations of a happy and enduring home.

You may now be seated

Madeline and Christopher will now share their vows.

*(Vows)*

Do you Madeline Bell take this man Christopher Orlando to be your lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, in good times and woe, for richer or poorer, forsaking all others, for as long as you both shall live?

*(Wait for Confirmation)*

Do you Christopher Orlando take this woman Madeline Bell to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, in good times and woe, for richer or poorer, forsaking all others, for as long as you both shall live?

*(Wait for Confirmation)*

RING EXCHANGE

May we now have the rings?

Madeline and Christopher will now exchange rings as a symbol of their love and commitment.

The ring, an unbroken circle, represents unending love. As often as either of you look upon these rings, may you be reminded of this moment and the love you have promised to one another.

MADELINE, please place this ring on CHRISTOPHER'S finger and repeat after me.

CHRISTOPHER, I give you this ring as a symbol of my love

and that I'm choosing to share

my life's journey with you

I give you this ring

with the pledge to love you

today, tomorrow, and always.

*place ring*

CHRISTOPHER, please place this ring on MADELINE'S finger and repeat after me.

MADELINE, I give you this ring

as a symbol of my love

and that I'm choosing to share

my life's journey with you

I give you this ring

with the pledge to love you

today, tomorrow, and always.

UNITY SAND CEREMONY

(after the minister reads the statement below, pour the two containers of sand into the third container simultaneously).

MADELINE and CHRISTOPHER, today you join your separate lives together. 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’ll ever be as an individual. They also represent your lives before today. As these two containers of sand are poured into the third container, the individual containers of sand will no longer exist, but will be joined together as one. Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual containers, so will your marriage be.

PRONOUNCEMENT

MADELINE and CHRISTOPHER have exchanged their vows and rings in our presence. I'm excited to pronounce them husband and wife.

I now have the honor to introduce for the first time, Mr. and Mrs. Chrisopher Orlando - you may now kiss your bride!

RECESSIONAL