Todd Joseph Tschiggfrie

Welcome:

Family, friends…we gather today to recognize and bear witness to the decision of two individuals agreeing to commit themselves to one and other, to celebrate in the joy of having found someone to dedicate their life to. Today is about promises that become permanent and friends that become family. We are here to celebrate the love that Amy and Brianna have for each other. They have decided to support one another through life’s ups and downs, sharing together as they journey forward in their lives as married partners.

Amy and Bri, you have made a very serious decision in choosing to marry each other. You are entering a sacred covenant as life partners. The quality of your marriage will reflect the effort you put into nurturing this relationship. We, your loved ones, bless you both this day. It is up to you to keep on blessing each day, enriching your lives together. We wish for you the wisdom, compassion, and constancy to create a peaceful sanctuary in which you can both grow in love, knowing that you have someone there to catch you when you fall, encourage you when you are discouraged, and applaud your successes.

Bri, do you understand and accept this responsibility, and do you promise to do your very best each day to create a loving, healthy, and happy marriage?

Amy, do you understand and accept this responsibility, and do you promise to do your very best each day to create a loving, healthy, and happy marriage?

When two people come together in marriage, their families and friends are also joined together in a larger circle of caring. From now on, you will know Amy and Bri, not only as individuals, but as marriage partners and your individual lives will be linked together as members of this community.

At this time, I ask that their parents come and stand behind their daughter respectively.

Mr. & Mrs. Tschiggfrie, you stand before us symbolizing the traditions and family from which Amy comes. Do you willingly and gladly support Amy’s marriage to Brianna?

Mr. & Mrs. Roman, you stand before us symbolizing the traditions and family from which Brianna comes. Do you willingly and gladly support Brianna’s marriage to Amy?

Marriage Address: Amy, Bri, it is our choices that show who we really are and today you choose each other. For all the tomorrows that follow, take care to let your love and friendship guide you. Protect each other with an unwavering promise of love. Treasure each other, for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Through your partnership, triumph over the challenges in your path. Through the comfort of loving arms, may you always find a safe place to call home. Our soulmates make us feel treasured, safe and loved beyond our wildest measures. We get the partner and lover and protector we always desired, and maybe even needed. Remember that happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Sand Ceremony:

Before the two of you met, you had separate lives, separate dreams and therefore separate futures. But then your paths crossed, you fell in love with each other, and today you stand before us, about to depart on a new life journey together. The two separate containers of sand in front of you represent your lives before coming here today, they symbolize your separate journeys, separate families, separate circle of friends. They represent all that you are and all that you are capable of as an individual, all that has shaped you to be who you are today. I now ask you to pour and blend your sand together. As these two containers of sand are poured together and blended, they symbolize the coming together of the two of you as individuals as well as the joining of families and friends. As these grains of sand come together to make beautiful and unique patterns, may your life together be forever blessed by the other’s uniqueness that can only be truly seen when contrasted against the other. Your adventures are not over, you now have the blessing of knowing that you have someone there to catch you when you fall, encourage you when you are discouraged, and applaud your successes. Marriage makes you strong, independently and together. Just as the grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into individual containers, so too will your marriage do for your lives.

Vows:

Marriage is always spoken of as a bond and a promise, it is the clasping of hands, hearts, and the union of two lives as one. Within the circle of its love, marriage encompasses all of life’s most important relationships. You are each other’s best friend, confidant, lover, teacher, listener, and even critic… and you can do that, because in marriage you say not only, “I love you today,” but also, “I promise to love you tomorrow, the next day and always.”

Amy and Bri have written their promises to each other and now share those unbreakable vows with us…

Bri: …

Amy: …

When life is peaceful and when it is painful, may you continuously be reminded of the deepest intention of the vows you made here. May the promises you made here today, reflect the love and sincerity of your truest intention for this union.

Rings:

Just as we bear witness to a written covenant with our signatures, so too, do we exchange wedding rings. Wedding rings are an enduring symbol that remind you of the pledges you have made to each other. Your rings seal the vows of marriage and represent a promise for everlasting love. Bri/Amy, please place the ring on her finger and repeat after me:

I, Brianna Roman, give you this ring as a sign that I choose you to be my partner, my love, my best friend, today, tomorrow, and always.

I, Amy Tschiggfrie, give you this ring as a sign that I choose you to be my partner, my love, my best friend, today, tomorrow, and always.

Now that Amy and Bri have joined themselves to each other by solemn vows, and by the giving and receiving of rings, I now, by the authority vested in me by the American Marriage Ministries, pronounce that they are married. And, as any brother would say, you may now get all mushy...ewww

Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming and congratulating Amy and Bri.