Kenneth John Galipeau

INVOCATION (5:25)

Welcome everyone! Chelsea and Kyle thank you all for making your way here today to witness and celebrate with them as they proclaim their love and commitment to the one another and the world. We are gathered to rejoice, with and for them, in the new life they now undertake together.

For both of you, you have had the chance to experience your lives together. With bumps along the way, you have learned what it means to love one another. Through good times and bad times, I have had the honor and privilege to witness how both of you have learned how to coexist as a couple. Getting married today is only one small quick step towards the meaning of true marriage.

Marriage is not just putting on a beautiful dress, or a nice suit. It isn't about having a big party, celebrating with friends and family, or partying to the late hours of the night - although we are going to do just that!

All those things are what a wedding is about, but marriage... marriage is about the continued learning of not just living together as a couple of two separate lives but living your lives as one complete life. It means continually moving forward as a couple and working towards the success of your family. Let nothing stand in the way of your marriage. The success of the longevity of your marriage rests upon you. To honor your spouse, to be a loving and supporting parent, to support your better half in their ambitions, and to be a nurturing, loving pillar of your family.

 

READINGS

Speaking of family we will now have a couple readings by family members.

First; Katie Ryan, The grooms Sister

Native American Wedding Blessing -

Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.

Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other.

Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other.

Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you.

May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through all the years.

May happiness be your companion and your days together be good and long upon the earth.

Another reading by Evan Galipeau, the brides Brother

How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog

 

Falling in love is like owning a Dog

First of all, it’s a big responsibility,

So think long and hard before deciding on love.

On the other hand, love gives you a sense of security.

When you’re walking down the street late at night and you have a leash on love ain’t no one going to mess with you.

Because crooks and muggers think love is unpredictable.

Who knows what love could do in its own defense…

On cold winter nights, love is warm.

It lies between you and lives and breathes and makes funny noises.

Love wakes you up all hours of the night with its needs.

Love doesn’t like being left alone for long.

But come home and love is always happy to see you.

It may break a few things accidentally in its passion for life, but you can never be mad at love for long.

Is love good all the time? No! No!

Love can be bad. Bad, love, bad! Very bad love.

Love makes messes.

Love leaves you little surprises here and there.

Love needs a lot of cleaning up after.

Sometimes you want to roll up a piece of newspaper and swat love on the nose.

Love usually just wants to go out for a nice long walk.

Love will run you around the block and leave you panting, breathless.

Pull you in different directions at once, or wind itself around and around you until you’re all wound up and you cannot move.

Love makes you meet people wherever you go.

People who have nothing in common but love stop and talk to each other on the street.

Throw things away and love will bring them back, again, and again, and again.

But most of all, love needs love, and lots of it.

And in return, love loves you and never stops. 

DECLARATION OF INTENT (5:35)

Chelsea and Kyle, the relationship you enter into today must be grounded in the strength of your love and the power of your faith in each other. To make your relationship succeed it will take unending love.

It will take trust, to know in your hearts that you truly want what is best for one another and to learn and grow together. It will take faith, to go forward together without knowing what the future holds.

If you both come freely, and understand the responsibility and work involved to make your relationship thrive and are committed to not only each other but your family, please take each other by the hands and reply 'we do.'

We do.

 

VOWS EXCHANGE - CHELSEA repeat after me:

I, Chelsea take you Kyle; # to be my husband, my partner in life and my one true love.; #

I will cherish our friendship; # and love you today, tomorrow, and forever.; #

I will trust you and honor you; #

I will laugh with you and cry with you. ; #

Through the best and the worst, ; #

Through the difficult and the easy. ; #

Whatever may come I will always be there. ; #

As I have given you my hand to hold ; #

So I give you my life to keep ; #

KYLE repeat after me:

I, Kyle take you Chelsea ; # to be my wife, my partner in life and my one true love. ; #

I will cherish our friendship ; # and love you today, tomorrow, and forever. ; #

I will trust you and honor you ; #

I will laugh with you and cry with you. ; #

Through the best and the worst, ; #

Through the difficult and the easy. ; #

Whatever may come I will always be there. ; #

As I have given you my hand to hold ; #

So I give you my life to keep ; #

 

RING EXCHANGE

Chelsea and Kyle will now exchange rings:

Kyle, as you place the ring on Chelsea’s finger, please repeat after me:

With this ring, I marry you and bind my life to yours. ; #

It is a symbol of my eternal love, ; #

My everlasting friendship, ; #

And the promise of all my tomorrows. ; #

Chelsea, as you place the ring on Kyle’s finger, please repeat after me:

With this ring, I marry you and bind my life to yours. ; #

It is a symbol of my eternal love, ; #

My everlasting friendship, ; #

And the promise of all my tomorrows. ; #

 

PRONOUNCEMENT

Chelsea and Kyle, prior to this moment you each walked a separate path. Now, you embark together on a truly shared path.

Never forget the love and joy you feel today, because these are the values that will keep your marriage, family and bond to one another strong.

And so, by the power vested in me by the American Marriage Ministries and the State of New Jersey, I now pronounce you husband and wife.

Kyle, you may kiss your bride.