Mark William Shultz

Dearly Beloved and Honored Guests,

We are gathered together here to celebrate with Christy and Rob as they proclaim their love and commitment to the world. We are gathered to rejoice with and for them in the new life they now undertake together.

Rob and Christy, 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 hearths 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 are committed to not only each other but your family, please take each other by the hands and reply "We Do."

Christy and Rob please share with each other your vows.

*(Vows)*

Do you Christine Louise Schmid take this man, Robert Jonathan Park, to be your lawfully wedded partner, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, in good times and bad, for richer or poorer, keeping yourself unto him for as long as you both shall live?

*(Wait for Confirmation)*

Do you Robert Jonathan Park take this woman Christine Louise Schmid to be your lawfully wedded partner, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, in good times and bad, for richer or poorer, keeping yourself unto her for as long as you both shall live?

*(Wait for Confirmation)*

Christine Louise Schmid and Robert Jonathan Park will now exchange rings as a symbol of their love and commitment.

*(Ring Exchange)*

Rob and Christy, prior to this moment you each walked a separate path. Now, you embark together on a shared path. Yet the journey is not yours alone, for you have already been blessed with a beautiful puppy - Cody. It will be your strength of your love that shall nourish you all together as a family.

Today, you both have stood before these witnesses and declared your intent to commit your lives to each other in marriage and have made promises to each other. Together each of your roads to this moment may not have been smooth, but you both continued to fight to get to this moment. I encourage you both not to forget the fight and perseverance to get to this moment. And I hope you both will never forget the love and joy you feel today, because these are the values that will keep your marriage, family, and dog to one another strong.

And so, by the authority vested in me by American Marriage Ministries and the State of Missouri I now pronounce you Husband and Wife!

Rob, you may now Kiss your beautiful Bride.