LaTasha Bacon

Let us make a wedding! Destiny Williams and Kara Barrow, today you enter the next phase of your growing relationship by declaring your love for each other and your intention to live together for the rest of your lives. Our laws and customs required that we publicly acknowledge this new legal union, but you to need neither ceremony nor process of law to tell you what you already know. No one, neither the state, nor religion, nor I can create this marriage. Only the two of you can do that. Paul, Joanna, treat yourselves and each other with respect, and remind yourselves Often of what brought you together. You may now recite your vows to each other.

I will now offer a reading

*(Reading)*

A tapestry of love

Just as two very different threads woven in opposite directions can form a beautiful tapestry, so can your two lives merge together to form a beautiful marriage.

To make your marriage work will take love.

Love should be the core of your marriage;

love is the reason you are here.

But it will also take trust - to know in your hearts

you want the best for each other.

It will take dedication – to stay open to one another;

to learn and to grow together even when this is not so easy to do.

It will take faith – to always be willing to go forward to tomorrow, never really knowing what tomorrow will bring.

And it will take commitment – to hold true to a journey you both now will share together.

♡Unity candle

Destiny and Kaykay , you two have chosen to affirm your love by the lighting of a Unity Candle.

The flame of the candle represents light and spirit; and fire is often said to symbolize inspiration, aspiration, power &

passion.

By lighting a Unity Candle, you signal your desire to not only join as one in their union, but to unite two families

together as one.

Will the Destiny and Kaykay Please light a side candle which represents the separate lives,

families and experiences before the wedding day?

(Bride and Bride each light a candle).

A candle has been lit for each of your families.

Destiny and Kaykay, please use those candles to light the Unity Candle together.

(Bride and Bride take the side candles and use them to light the center ‘Unity’ candle.)

Prior to this moment you each walked a separate path.

With the lighting of the center candle you have now symbolically joined your once separate lives.

As two flames combined into one light, so now are your friends and family joined, through you, into one.

Please affirm to me: have you freely chosen to combine your lives in marriage, to live together in love and honesty, cherishing, comforting, and honoring each other?

Kaykay, Destiny, and expressing your private affirmations, you have pronounced yourselves husband and wife. May you find comfort, security, and vitality with each other. This private ceremony is now complete.