Jackie Lynn Marlowe
Minister ID: 567855-304512 View Ordination Certificate
Officiated by Jackie Lynn Marlowe at Jessica's House in Mukwonago, Wisconsin on May 20th, 2017.
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JACKIE:
Jacob and Saige,
I’m thrilled and honored to be here with my our family to witness, celebrate, and usher in the beginning of yours. It got me thinking about marriage… and what that looks like. In particular, what that will look like for the two of you.
I imagine the marriage between you Saige, my baby sister and you Jacob, my favorite baby brother will look a little something like this:
The most , creamy custard, and buttermilk biscuits. From scratch. With love.
Dreamings over a shared pint of Fullsteam First Frost.
Late night reminiscing and records spinning.
Backyard grilling, planting, and harvesting.
Making a home together… twelve thousand miles from where you started.
May your marriage be a never-ending compilation of chapters in a fascinating novel—captured and shared alongside, and with, each other. For as long as you both shall live.
Let’s begin.
SAIGE: “YOUR VOWS, PLEASE.”
“Love” by Roy Croft
I love you,
not only for what you are—
but for what I am
when I am with you.
I love you,
not only for what
you have made of yourself—
but for what
you are making of me.
I love you for
the part of me that you bring out;
I love you for putting your hand
into my heaped-up heart
and passing over
all the foolish, weak things
that you can’t help
dimly seeing there,
and for drawing out into the light
all the beautiful belongings
that no one else had looked
quite far enough to find.
I love you because you
are helping me to make
of the lumber of my life
not a tavern, but a temple.
Out of the works of my every day
not a reproach, but a song.
I love you
because you have done
more than any creed
could have done
to make me good.
And more than any fate
could have done
to make me happy.
You have done it
without a touch,
without a word,
without a sign.
You have done it
by being yourself.
“JACOB: YOUR VOWS, PLEASE.”
from The Princess Bride
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage…
I said “as you wish” from the beginning… I loved you from the start.
I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I love you. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I…
I love you, Elizabeth.
JACKIE:
“Union” by Robert Fulghum
You have known each other from the first glance of acquaintance to this point of commitment. At some point, you decided to marry. From that moment of yes, to this moment of yes, indeed, you have been making commitments in an informal way. All of those conversations that were held in a car, or over a meal, or during long walks—all those conversations that began with, “When we’re married,” and continued with “I will” and “you will” and “we will”—all those late night talks that included “someday” and “somehow” and “maybe”—and all those promises that are unspoken matters of the heart. All these common things, and more, are the real process of a wedding.
The symbolic vows that you are about to make are a way of saying to one another, “You know all those things that we’ve promised, and hoped, and dreamed—well, I meant it all, every word.”
Look at one another and remember this moment in time. Before this moment you have been many things to one another—acquaintance, friend, companion, lover, dancing partner, even teacher, for you have learned much from one another these past few years. Shortly you shall say a few words that will take you across a threshold of life, and things between you will never quite be the same.
For after today you shall say to the world—“This is my husband.” “This is my wife.”
Saige, pick up Jacob’s ring, and repeat after me.
SAIGE:
Jacob, I want to spend the rest of my life with you.
I vow to love and shelter you as long as we both shall live.
I take you with all your faults and strengths as I offer myself to you—with all my faults and strengths.
I vow to help you when you need help, and turn to you when I need help.
And with this ring, I take you to be my lawfully wedded husband, my constant friend, my partner-in-crime, and my love from this day forward.
JACKIE:
Jacob, pick up Saige’s ring, and repeat after me.
JACOB:
Saige, I want to spend the rest of my life with you.
I vow to love and shelter you as long as we both shall live.
I take you with all your faults and strengths as I offer myself to you—with all my faults and strengths.
I vow to help you when you need help, and turn to you when I need help.
And with this ring, I take you to be my lawfully wedded wife, my constant friend, my partner-in-crime, and my love from this day forward.
JACKIE:
Now that you have given yourselves to each other with solemn vows, and the giving and receiving of rings, in front of all who are assembled here—it is with great joy that I pronounce you husband and wife.
You may now seal your vows with a kiss.
(Kissing!)
And finally, you may begin your marriage how you began your relationship: with a strong drink on a weekday. Cheers, to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Angrick!
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