Inspirational Readings
Adding one or more readings to your wedding or civil union ceremony can help make it more unique, personal and memorable. The selections provided below are just a few of the many hundreds of passages that have been written about love, friendship, commitment, loyalty, sharing and caring over the years - all the ingredients for a lasting, loving relationship. They are included because many other couples have found the words to be a perfect expression of how they feel about each other.
When you include readings, you have an opportunity to invite a friend or family member to participate in your ceremony. Asking a loved one to be a reader lets you honor your special relationship with that person by inviting him or her to speak the words that you feel are a reflection of the past, present and future of your journey together as a couple. Choosing the right words will add warmth, drama, happiness and, often, joyful tears to your ceremony, helping to make it the wedding or civil union of your dreams.
All I Want
Renée Duvall
All I want is to love you for the rest of my life.
To wake up every morning with you by my side,
knowing that no matter what happens,
I'll be able to come home to your loving arms.
All I want is to share everything with you.
To talk to you about our ideas, our dreams,
the little everyday things that make us laugh
and the not-so-little things that we can't help worrying about.
All I want is to give you my love -
as a place you can always come to for acceptance
or the simple comfort that silence brings
when things left unspoken can still be understood.
All I want is to grow old with you.
To watch our life unfold, our dreams, one by one, come true.
All I want is to love you forever.
An Everlasting Lifetime Love
Linda Lee Elrod
People talk about love all the time,
but most people seldom, if ever,
get to experience the closeness
that you and I share everyday of our lives.
When you and I fell in love,
there was a lot more to it than just hearts and flowers.
And it wasn't long before we knew
that this was no ordinary love.
What we felt for each other was stronger and deeper
and more important than anything we had ever known before.
And now I can honestly say that you are a part of me,
just as I am a part of you.
This is the love that songs and books are written about -
an everlasting lifetime love,
and it's ours to enjoy forever.
Apache Marriage Blessing
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be the shelter for each other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be the warmth for the other. Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before. Go now to your dwelling place to enter into the days of your life together. And may your days be good and long upon the earth.
Treat yourselves and each other with respect, and remind yourselves often of what brought you together. Give the highest priority to the tenderness, gentleness and kindness that your connection deserves. When frustration, difficulty and fear assail your relationship - as they threaten all relationships at one time or another - remember to focus on what is right between you, not only the part which seems wrong. In this way, you can ride out the storms when clouds hide the face of the sun in your lives - remembering that even if you lose sight of it for a moment, the sun is still there. And if each of you takes responsibility for the quality of your life together, it will be marked by abundance and delight.
Blessings for a Marriage
James Dillet Freeman
May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.
May you always need one another - not so much to fill your emptiness as to help you to know your fullness. A mountain needs a valley to be complete; the valley does not make the mountain less, but more; and the valley is more a valley because it has a mountain towering over it. So let it be with you and you.
May you need one another, but not out of weakness.
May you want one another, but not out of lack.
May you entice one another, but not compel one another.
May you embrace one another, but not out encircle one another.
May you succeed in all important ways with one another, and not fail in the little graces.
May you look for things to praise, often say, "I love you!" and take no notice of small faults.
If you have quarrels that push you apart, may both of you hope to have good sense enough to take the first step back.
May you enter into the mystery, which is the awareness of one another's presence - no more physical than spiritual, warm and near when you are side-by-side, and warm and near when you are in separate rooms or even distant cities. May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy.
May you have love, and may you find it loving one another.
Celtic Wedding Blessing
May your mornings bring joy and your evenings bring peace.
May your troubles grow few as your blessings increase.
Be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
May your hands be forever clasped in friendship
And your hearts joined forever in love.
Your lives are very special,
God has touched you in many ways.
May his blessings rest upon you
And fill all your coming days.
Color Together
Bob Perks
Love is like a box of Crayola® crayons created by God. Before you are the blank pages that are drawn through a lifetime of commitment and caring. Although our generation has set the pace for coloring outside the lines, my advice to you both, always color within the lines. Don't look at them as barriers or roadblocks that limit, but guidelines to keep your love strong. You have seen the results of a generation without guidelines.
Be creative. Use your own colors. Roses aren't always red and sunsets are never the same. Relationships too, should be like sharing a coloring book. Decide together what page to work on and then share. Perhaps one is better at coloring the sky and the other the grass and flowers. Never criticize the other's work. If you both desire to use the same crayon, choose a different shade or wait until the other is finished. Compromise and patience are the backbone of a strong union.
It is important at times for both of you to have your own page to color. A strong couple stands together but each casts their own shadow. In coloring, this is accomplished by first agreeing on two connected pages and sitting close together. Keep the crayons sharpened. The joy of love is in the details. At times when you are challenged by life or disagreements pull out the coloring book and sit at your kitchen table and draw. No words need to be spoken. The peace and joy that come from creating beauty will not permit the ugliness of anger to exist.
Always be thankful to the God of all colors. He created you both in love and graciously brought you together. Finally, always clean up afterwards. Relationships, like a crayon box, have a place for everything. You will discover that when one is missing the whole box seems incomplete. May your life together be as colorful as you both have made our lives.
Excerpt from The Bridge Across Forever
Richard Bach
A soul mate is someone who has locks
that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.
When we feel safe enough to open the locks,
our truest selves step out
and we can be completely and honestly who we are;
we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be.
Each unveils the best part of the other.
No matter what else goes wrong around us,
with that one person we're safe in our own paradise.
Our soul mate is someone who shares our deepest longings,
our sense of direction.
When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up,
chances are we've found the right person.
Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life.
Excerpt from The Hungering Dark
Frederick Buechner
Matrimony is called holy, because this brave and fateful promise of a man and a woman, to love and honor and serve each other through thick and thin, looks beyond itself to more fateful promises still, and speaks mightily of what human life at its most human and most alive and most holy must always be. Every wedding is a dream, and every word that is spoken there means more than it says, and every gesture - the clasping of hands, the giving of rings - is rich with mystery. And so it [is that] we hope with every bride and groom, that the love they bear one another, and the joy they take in one another, may help them grow in love for this whole world where their final joy lies.
Excerpt from The Velveteen Rabbit
Margery Williams
"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
Foundations of Marriage
Regina Hill
Love, trust, and forgiveness are the foundations of marriage.
In marriage, many days will bring happiness,
while other days may be sad.
But together, two hearts can overcome everything.
In marriage, all of the moments won't be exciting or romantic,
and sometimes worries and anxiety will be overwhelming.
But together, two hearts that accept will find comfort together.
Recollections of past joys, pains, and shared feelings
will be the glue that holds everything together,
during even the worst and most insecure moments.
Reaching out to each other as a friend,
and becoming the confidant and companion that the other one needs,
is the true magic and beauty of any two people together.
It's inspiring in each other a dream or a feeling,
and having faith in each other and not giving up -
even when all the odds say to quit.
It's allowing each other to be vulnerable, to be himself or herself,
even when the opinions or thoughts aren't in total agreement
or exactly what you'd like them to be.
It's getting involved and showing interest in each other,
really listening and being available, the way any best friend should be.
Exactly three things need to be remembered in a marriage
if it is to be a mutual bond of sharing, caring, and loving throughout life:
love, trust, and forgiveness.
It Seemed Like Forever
Mary Miro
It seemed life forever that I longed for a soul mate.
I can remember staring out at quiet star-filled nights,
whispering prayers that someday, somewhere,
I would find that one special person who was meant for me.
I imagined us laughing at silly things,
sharing tears over sad things.
We would lapse into comfortable silences as we read each other thoughts.
We would love each other passionately and totally,
heart to heart and soul to soul.
I waited and dreamed
and dreamed and waited.
After a while, I began to think my dream was exactly that -
only a dream.
Then I met you, my wonderful partner…
and all my dreams came true.
Love
Roy Croft
I love you, not only for what you are,
but what I am, when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,
but 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 and weak things
that you can't help seeing there
And for drawing out into the light
all the beautiful belongings
that no one else has looked quite far enough to find.
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 -
my companion and comforter, guide and friend.
The one I love.
Love Is Friendship Caught Fire
Laura Hendricks
Love is friendship caught fire; it is quiet, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection, and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present, hopes for the future, and does not brood over the past. It is the day-in and day-out chronicles of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories, and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you do not have it, no matter what else there is, it is not enough.
Marriage Joins Two People in the Circle of Its Love
Edmund O'Neill
Marriage is a commitment to life, the best that two people can find and bring out in each other. It offers opportunities for sharing and growth that no other relationship can equal. It is a physical and an emotional joining that is promised for a lifetime.
Within the circle of its love, marriage encompasses all of life's most important relationships. A wife and a husband are each other's best friend, confidant, lover, teacher, listener, and critic. And there may come times when one partner is heartbroken or ailing, and the love of the other may resemble the tender caring of a parent for a child.
Marriage deepens and enriches every facet of life. Happiness is fuller, memories are fresher, commitment is stronger, even anger is felt more strongly, and passes away more quickly.
Marriage understands and forgives the mistakes life is unable to avoid. It encourages and nurtures new life, new experiences, and new ways of expressing a love that is deeper than life. When two people pledge their love and care for each other in marriage, they create a spirit unique unto themselves, which binds them, closer than any spoken or written words.
Marriage is a promise, a potential made in the hearts of two people who love each other and takes a lifetime to fulfill.
My Love
Linda Lee Elrod
When I met you, I had no idea how much my life was about to be changed
but then, how could I have known?
A love like ours happens once in a lifetime.
You were a miracle to me,
the one who was everything I had ever dreamed of,
the one I thought existed only in my imagination.
And when you came into my life,
I realized that what I had always thought was happiness
couldn't compare to the joy loving you brought me.
You are a part of everything I think and do and feel,
and with you by my side,
I believe that anything is possible.
This day gives me a chance to thank you for the miracle of you
you are, and always will be,
the love of my life.
Navajo Prayer
When you were children, you talked like children.
But now that you've grown,
you should be done with childish things and put them away.
When you were children,
you looked into a mirror that gave only a blurred reflection of reality.
But with love and maturity,
you shouldn't be afraid to look into that mirror
and see each other face to face.
Be swift like the wind in loving each other.
Be brave like the sea in loving each other.
Be gentle like the breeze in loving each other.
Be patient like the sun who waits and watches
the four changes of the earth in loving each other.
Be wise like the roaring of the thunder clouds and lightning in loving each other.
Be shining like the morning dawn in loving each other.
Be proud like the tree who stands without bending in loving each other.
Be brilliant like the rainbow colors in loving each other.
Now, forever, forever, there will be no more loneliness
because your worlds are joined together with the world.
Forever, forever.
On Love
Thomas Kempis
Love is a mighty power,
a great and complete good.
Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth.
It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders
all bitterness sweet and acceptable.
Nothing is sweeter than love,
Nothing stronger,
Nothing higher,
Nothing wider,
Nothing more pleasant,
Nothing fuller or better in heaven or earth; for love is born of God.
Love flies, runs and leaps for joy.
It is free and unrestrained.
Love knows no limits, but ardently transcends all bounds.
Love feels no burden, takes no account of toil,
attempts things beyond its strength.
Love sees nothing as impossible,
for it feels able to achieve all things.
It is strange and effective,
while those who lack love faint and fail.
Love is not fickle and sentimental,
nor is it intent on vanities.
Like a living flame and a burning torch,
it surges upward and surely surmounts every obstacle.
Perfect Love
René Duvall
Because you are my love,
I know the joy that comes from feeling closer to someone
than I've ever felt before.
Because you are my love,
I know the passion of wanting to share everything I have,
everything I am with you and only you.
Because you are my friend,
I know that I can count on you to hold my hand through the rough times
and to be there to share the good times, too.
Because you are my friend,
I'll always have someone to make me smile just when I need it most,
to encourage me when I'm feeling confused or doubtful.
And I know that I must be one of the luckiest people in the world
to have someone like you.
The perfect love and the perfect friend.
Take My Hand
Dick Johnson
Take my hand, come walk with me along life's winding way.
Take my hand, come stand with me, together we will say.
It's you that I have chosen. It's you with whom I'll stay.
It's you with whom I'll share my life I want no other way.
I want you always by my side through laughter and through tears.
The good, the bad, we'll share it all, through all the coming years.
Because I want this union, to continue to be blessed,
I pray we both will care enough to always give our best.
I know that if we do our best, then when our journey ends,
we'll find that we've come through it all still lovers, ever friends!
The Key to Love
Author Unknown
The key to love is understanding.
The ability to comprehend not only the spoken word,
but those unspoken gestures,
the little things that say so much by themselves.
The key to love is forgiveness -
to accept each others faults and pardon mistakes,
without forgetting, but with remembering
what you learn from them.
The key to love is sharing -
Facing your good fortunes as well as the bad, together;
both conquering problems, forever searching for ways
to intensify your happiness.
The key to love is giving -
without thought of return,
but with the hope of just a simple smile,
and by giving in but never giving up.
The key to love is respect -
realizing that you are two separate people, with different ideas;
that you don't belong to each other,
that you belong with each other, and share a mutual bond.
The key to love is inside us all -
It takes time and patience to unlock all the ingredients
that will take you to its threshold.
It is the continual learning process that demands a lot of work -
but the rewards are more than worth the effort.
And that is the key to love.
There's Only One Person
Keely Chace
Are there other couples like us?
In some city a thousand miles away,
are there two best friends who happen to be in love?
My mind wanders to that question now and then,
but never far enough to ever believe
that someone like you could be found anywhere else in the world.
Because I know there's only one person who's so much fun,
so easy to love, and so completely amazing.
And I'm the one lucky enough to have you.
These I Can Promise
Author Unknown
I cannot promise you a life of sunshine;
I cannot promise riches, wealth, or gold;
I cannot promise you an easy pathway
That leads away from change or growing old.
But I can promise all my heart's devotion;
A smile to chase away your tears of sorrow;
A love that's ever true and ever growing;
A hand to hold in yours through each tomorrow.
This Day I Married My Best Friend
Author Unknown
This day I married my best friend.
The one I laugh with as we share life's wondrous zest,
as we find new enjoyments and experience all that's best.
The one I live for because the world seems brighter
as our happy times are better and our burdens feel much lighter.
The one I love with every fiber of my soul.
We used to feel vaguely incomplete, now together we are whole.
True Love
Author Unknown
True love is a sacred flame
That burns eternally,
And none can dim its special glow
Or change its destiny.
True love speaks in tender tones
And hears with gentle ear,
True love gives with open heart
And true love conquers fear.
True love makes no harsh demands
It neither rules nor binds,
And true love holds with gentle hands
The hearts that it entwines.
What I Used to Think
Tara J. Morrow
I used to think I wanted to be with someone
who shared my same interest and passions,
someone who thought like I thought and believed what I believed -
and what I found was you.
You have your own ideas about life,
and they're so different from mine.
But you know, I've learned a lot from our differences.
Our love challenges my mind and forces me to broaden my horizons -
to look beyond my comfort zone.
And now we've discovered a new comfort in being together -
in learning from one another, in the whole give-and-take of this relationship.
Because of you, my world has grown so much,
not to mention my heart.
What Is Love?
Author Unknown
Sooner or later we begin to understand that love
is more than verses on valentines and romance in the movies.
We begin to know that love is here and now,
real and true, the most important thing in our lives.
For love is the creator of our favorite memories
and the foundation of our fondest dreams.
Love is a promise that is always kept,
a fortune that can never be spent,
a seed that can flourish in even the most unlikely of places.
And this radiance that never fades,
this mysterious and magical joy, is the greatest treasure of all,
one known only by those who love.
What is Love?
Susan Polis Schutz
Love is the strongest feeling known
an all-encompassing passion
an extreme strength
an overwhelming excitement.
Love is trying not to hurt the other person
trying not to change the other person
trying not to dominate the other person
trying not to deceive the other person
Love is understanding each other
listening to each other
supporting each other
having fun with each other.
Love is not an excuse to stop growing
not an excuse to stop making yourself better
not an excuse to lessen one's goals
not an excuse to take the other person for granted
Love is being completely honest with each other
finding dreams to share
working towards common goals
sharing responsibilities equally.
Love is the reason for life
When I Look at You
René Duvall
Sometimes when I look at you, I can hardly believe you're mine.
I think about how attractive you are,
how caring and sensitive, how interesting and funny,
and I can hardly believe that out of this whole world of people,
I was lucky enough to find you.
Sometimes when I look at you,
I remember what it was like in the beginning,
when we were just getting to know each other.
I'll never forget the nervous excitement I used to feel every time I saw you,
and I smile every time I relive the tenderness of our very fist kiss.
Sometimes when I look at you,
I get lost in memories of special times we've shared,
in daydreams of the happiness we've yet to discover together.
Every time I look at you, I realize how much I love the love we share
and how very much I love you.
With You by My Side
René Duvall
With you by my side, everything in the world seems better.
Good things are twice as much fun
because when I share them with you, I get to see you smile.
Bad things are only half as bad
because I know I can count on you to help me through them.
With you to hold my hand,
I know that I have someone who sees life a lot like I do,
someone who shares the same values,
dreams the same dreams.
I know that I have someone who understands the parts of me that other people
don't even know exist.
With you in my life,
I know that I have everything anyone could ever want…
someone who's understanding and supportive,
who's fun and interesting.
Someone I love who also happens to be my best friend.
Why Marriage?
Mari Nichols
Because to the depths of me, I long to love one person,
With all my heart, my soul, my mind, my body.
Because I need a forever friend to trust with the intimacies of me,
Who won't hold them against me,
Who loves me when I'm unlikable,
Who sees the small child in me, and
Who looks for the divine potential of me.
Because I need to cuddle in the warmth of the night
With someone who thanks God for me,
With someone I feel blessed to hold.
Because marriage means opportunity
To grow in love in friendship.
Because marriage is a discipline
To be added to a list of achievements.
Because marriages do not fail, people fail
When they enter into marriage
Expecting another to make them whole.
Because, knowing this,
I promise myself to take full responsibility
For my spiritual, mental and physical wholeness
I create me, I take half of the responsibility for my marriage
Together we create our marriage.
Because of this understanding
The possibilities are limitless.
You and I Are Connected
Suzanne Heins
You and I are connected in a way that goes beyond romance,
beyond friendship, beyond what we've ever had before.
It had defied time, distance, and chance in ourselves and in our lives.
And, it has defied every explanation except one:
purely and simply, we're soul mates.
I can't explain it.
I just feel it.
When I'm with you, it's like a tiny part of the universe
shifts into the place it's supposed to be,
and all is right with the world.
These things, and so many more,
have made me understand that this is a once-in-a-lifetime,
forever connection that could only exist between you and me.
And, deep in my soul, I know that our relationship is a rare gift,
one that will bring us an extraordinary happiness all through our lives.
You're the One I'll Love Forever
René Duvall
You're the one whose arms I love
wrapped around me at the end of a long, hard day.
The one who can make troubles seem less challenging just by listening.
You're the one who's sensitive enough
to know when something's bothering me
and thoughtful enough to do something about it.
You can somehow make me feel beautiful
with nothing more than a look or smile
and make my heart beat faster with just a touch.
You're the one who understands the way I think,
who supports me in every new path I follow,
who's grateful for the things we share as a couple
and proud of my independence and accomplishments.
You're the one who stands beside me in everything,
the one who steals my heart over and over,
the one I'll love forever.
Bible Readings
First Corinthians, Chapter 13
Be ambitious for the higher gifts, and I am going to show you a way that is better than any of them. If I have all the eloquence of men or of angels, but speak without love, I am simply a gong booming or a cymbal clashing. If I have the gift of prophecy, understanding all the mysteries there are, and knowing everything, and if I have faith in all its fullness, to move mountains, but without love, then I am nothing at all. If I give away all that I possess, piece by piece, and if I even let them take my body to burn it, but am without love, then I am nothing at all.
Love is always patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.
First Corinthians, Chapter 13
Be ambitious for the higher gifts and I am going to show you a way that is better then any of them. If I have all the eloquence of men or of angels, but speak without love, I am but a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, understanding all mysteries and all knowledge: And though I have faith in all its fluffiness, as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give away all that I possess, piece by piece, and even if I give my body to burn, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.
Love is patient and kind; it is not envious or boastful; it is not arrogant, rude or proud. Love is not self-seeking; it is not easily angered; it does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins, but delights in the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.
As for prophecies, they will pass away, as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. But know faith, hope and love remain, and of these three, the greatest is love.
Modern Version of Paul to the Corinthians
Love is patient and kind;
love is not jealous or boastful;
it is not arrogant or rude.
Love does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
Love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.
Psalm 1
Blessed are the man and the woman
who have grown beyond themselves
and have seen through their separations.
They delight in the way things are
and keep their hearts open, day and night.
They are like trees planted near flowing rivers,
which bear fruit when they are ready.
Their leaves will not fall or wither.
Everything they do will succeed.
Reading from the book of Genesis
Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helpmate." So from the soil the Lord God fashioned all the wild beast and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give it. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of heaven and all the wild beasts. But no helpmate suitable for the man was found for him. So the Lord God made the man fall into deep sleep. And while he slept, he took one of his ribs and enclosed it in flesh. The Lord God built the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. The man exclaimed: "This at last is bone from my bones, and flesh from my flesh! This is to be called woman, for this was taken from man" This is why a man leaves his father and mother and joins himself to his wife and they become one body. The word of the Lord.
The Lord's Prayer
(Option 1)
Our Father who art in Heaven, hallow be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil .For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen
(Option 2)
Let us Pray: Dear God, thank you for this joyous day. Thank you for Your Light that has entered ______ and _________ lives. Thank you for all the miracles and blessings. Please bless this union. Help _______ and _______ find the perfect place in this world for their love to flourish. Let the radiant light of their love shine on all those around them. May all their future creations be blessed. God, bless them with the inner gifts of trust, compassion, forgiveness and truth that they may live and grow together in love and peace. Amen.
(Option 3)
Father of mankind, whose nature is love, look with favor upon this woman and this man who desire to make their vows before you. We are grateful for the providence that has led to this union. Grant this to be more than an outward union, but also the blending of hearts and spirits and purposes. Bless each with the inward qualities of integrity, trust, cooperation and forgiveness, that they may live together in love and peace. Amen.
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Victoria & David
The Breakers On The Ocean
Spring Lake, NJ
August 2009