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WEDDING VOW FOR NON DENOMINATIONAL or CIVIL SERVICE
We are joyfully gathered today to witness and celebrate the joining of two lives in marriage. ____________________________ and __________________________ have invited you to be with them, and to rejoice with them in the making of this important commitment. The essence of this commitment is the honoring of another person in their entirety as life partner, everlasting lover, heart companion and soul friend. It is therefore a decision which is undertaken with great consideration and respect.
Officiate focuses attention on the present moment.
_____________________________ and ___________________________ have come together in the hope that the love which brought them to this union may go out beyond itself into the lives of others. Thus, we ask that the promise and hopes of this union be realized. May you both be granted the patience to listen, the capacity to understand, the compassion to give comfort, and the joy to laugh and to be yourselves. Let your marriage make a home, where neither person is ever lonely. Let it offer illumination and the excitement of shared discoveries. Let it be large enough to endure the difficult times. May life's challenges bring you closer together and may you always be able to turn to each other.
____________________________ do you take ___________________________ to be your wife and equal? Will you share your life openly with her and promise to love, honor and stand beside her always, in times of joy and times of conflict?
____________________________ do you take ___________________________ to be your husband and equal? Will you share your life openly with him and promise to love, honor and stand beside him always, in times of joy and times of conflict?
A circle is the symbol of sun, the earth, the universe, of wholeness, perfection, peace and of unity. Like circles, your rings have no beginning and no ending. They are symbols of the growing relationship you have come to celebrate and confirm.
As a sign of your faithfulness, place the ring on her finger and repeat after me. I take you _______________________________ as my wife through all of the experience life holds for us, in faith and love.
As a sign of your faithfulness, place the ring on his finger and repeat after me. I take you _______________________________ as my husband through all of the experience life holds for us, in faith and love.
Having heard the vows you have made to each other, witnessed by these loved ones, by the power vested in me by the territorial court of the Virgin Islands, I now pronounce you husband and wife.
You nay now kiss the bride.
Family and friends, Mr. And Mrs. __________________________________________________.
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