LaTasha Bacon

Let us make a wedding!

We are gathered together here to join Kristen Dean and Allyson Cupuano 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.

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.

Do you Kristen Dean take this woman Allyson Cupuano 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 Allyson Cupuano take this woman Kristen Dean 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)*

Kristen Dean and Allyson Cupuano will now exchange rings as a symbol of their love and commitment.

*(Ring Exchange)*

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?

Allyson, Kristen, in expressing your private affirmations, you have pronounced yourselves husband and wife. May you find comfort, security, and vitality with each other. I now pronounce you wife and wife. This private ceremony is now complete.