Moses Joshua Arredondo Jr.

Dearly beloved and Honored Guests,

We are gathered here today to join Ms. Claudia Guerra and Mr. Courtney Ellis in this beautiful, spiritual celebration of marriage.

This is the official contract that binds these amazing beings under one, unconditional love,

and to enforce an eternal promise to be kept and held on to for many years to come.

As stated in Proverbs 3:3-4

"Let Love and Faithfulness never leave you:

Bind them around your neck, and write them on the tablet of your heart.

Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man."

Friends and Family of the Loving couple,

This Celebration is not only to rejoice because two creatures of God's hands found their soulmate out of the billions of people here on Earth.

But it is also to acknowledge and recognize a love that Claudia and Courtney share between the depths of their hearts and are ready to express through the following stages of each other's lives.

We are admiring a commitment the couple is ready to endure in through all the obstacles and temptations that will be thrown their way, not to overcome separately, but as a joint married couple.

Admiring a commitment that will spread hope to those who doubt they will find "the one" and spread comfort to those who are patiently waiting to find their soulmate.

and finally admiring a commitment unifying them not by shared checkbooks or Netflix accounts, but by one of the most complex ideas and expressions many of us find hard to understand, Love.

The fact that they're shared love for their children (Donovan Zane Marshall and Ethan) and their two French bulldogs (Tito and Bruno) is the biggest thing they have in common is how you can tell they've unlocked the meaning behind the greatest virtue of all and are ready to unconditionally show each other until death do them part.

It's no accident Claudia's son started playing for Mr. Sada's football team, making them mutual friends with both Joseph and Lori, and leading Claudia to end up at the Wildest of Wests for the birthday party of a man

she didn't know she would end up marrying five years later.

Andy Rooney once said

Everyone wants to live on the top of a Mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs on the hike up.

Their hike may have been long, their hike may have been difficult, it may have even been a smooth path with mile markers at every stop, but no matter what has happened on that time coming up,

every good and bad thing endured has led them to the top of their mountain,

and It's now all sunsets and city views from one new shared perspective.

*(Vows)*

At this time, the bride and groom have prepared vows to not only express their love to each other,

but to strengthen the commitment they share amongst themselves.

*(Ring Exchange)*

May the rings please be presented at this time

Groom please repeat after me

By placing this ring on the hand of my love,

and acknowledging the bond we hold to share

I promise to keep you beyond and above

all else as they do not compare

Bride please repeat after me

By placing this ring on the hand of my love,

and acknowledging the bond we hold to share

I promise to keep you beyond and above

all else as they do not compare

Do you Claudia Guerra take this man Courtney 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, keeping yourself unto him for as long as you both shall live?

*(Wait for Confirmation)*

Do you Courtney Ellis take this woman Claudia 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, keeping yourself unto her for as long as you both shall live?

*(Wait for Confirmation)*

By the authority vested in me by the American Marriage Ministries and the great State of Texas I now pronounce you husband and wife!

you may now kiss your bride

Ladies and gentleman, for the first time I present to you, Mr. and Mrs., /Courtney Ellis.