GROOM and BRIDE come together in this beautiful setting, so that you could publicly commit yourselves to each other in marriage.

 

God invented marriage. He created it because He looked into the future and saw what your needs and your desires would be for companionship, love and fulfillment. But God also knew that no marriage would ever be perfect. As you enter this union, it’s important to realistically understand that it will take a lot of love AND work to make this relationship a success.

 

Many couples tend to think marriage as a 50/50 proposition. Actually, the best relationships are 90/10. If you both will give 90% and take only 10—you will have a formula likely to bring both of you happiness for a lifetime.

 

And I ask you to remember what First Corinthians Chapter 13 teaches us of love:
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 is never-ending.

 

Love is a verb. It is not just a state of being but an ACTION verb. It is not just how you feel about each other, but what you DO for each other that will keep your relationship growing and alive.

 

“If you love someone you will be loyal to him no matter what the cost. You will always believe in him, always expect the best of him, and always stand your ground in defending him.”

 

GROOM and BRIDE, in the Hawaiian language there is a term that describes how couples should treat one another: Ho’oponopono, which means: “to put things right . . . by family discussion.”

 

In other words, don’t let the sun set when you find that you are angry. Talk things out. Makes things right with each other quickly, before the sun disappears. That’s the best way to keep small misunderstandings from growing into problems that break you down.

With this understanding, do you Groom, take Bride to be your beloved wife?
Do you promise to be a tender, faithful husband?
Do you promise to love, honor, and cherish her, in sickness and in health, for richer for poorer, for better for worse, for as long as you both shall live?

 

With this understanding, do you Bride, take Groom to be your beloved husband?
Do you promise to be a tender, faithful wife?
Do you promise to love, honor, and cherish him, in sickness and in health, for richer for poorer, for better for worse, for as long as you both shall live?

These rings are circles, unbroken, just as your love is unbroken and complete for each other. May the love between you grow and strengthen through all the years it would take to travel around your rings and come to their ends.

 

Groom: With this ring, I wed you, and pledge you my love, now and forever.

 

Bride: With this ring, I wed you, and pledge you my love, now and forever.

 

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Let us pray: God, bless this couple that you see before you this day. Give them the strength to hold on during the storms of stress and the dark of disillusionment. Keep them tender and gentle as they nurture each other in their wondrous love. Help them to continue building a relationship founded in your grace, rich in caring, and devoted in reaching for your perfection. May Groom and Bride see each other as healer, protector, shelter and guide. We ask this in your name, Amen.

Groom and Bride, having witnessed your vows for marriage, and by the authority vested in me, I announce with great joy that you are husband and wife.

You may seal your vows with a kiss.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to present to you for the first time as husband and wife: Mr. and Mrs. Groom's Name!