Marriage Service #5

Pastor:
"The Art of Marriage"
The little things are the big things.
It is never being too old to hold hands.
It is remembering to say "I love you" at least once a day.
It is never going to sleep angry.
It is at no time taking the other for granted;
the courtship should not end with the honeymoon,
It should continue through all the years.
It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives
It is standing together facing the world.
It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family.
It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude of duty or Sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy.
It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating
Gratitude in thoughtful ways.
It is not expecting the husband to wear a halo or
The wife to have the wings of an angel.
It is no looking for perfection in each other.
It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and
A sense of humor
It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.
It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow.
It is finding room for things of the spirit.
It is a common search for the good and the beautiful.
It is establishing a relationship in which the independence is equal
Dependence is mutual and the obligation is reciprocal.
It is not only marrying the right partner,
It is being the right partner.
Pastor:
_______ & ________, are you ready to take your vows?
Man:
I,________, take you,________, to be my wife, my partner in life and my one true love. I will cherish our friendship and love you today, tomorrow, and forever. I will trust and honor you. I will laugh with you and cry with you. I will love you faithfully through the best and the worst, Through the difficult and the easy. What may come I will always be there. As I have given you my hand to hold, so I give you my life to keep, So help me God.
Woman:
I, ________, take you, ________, to be my husband, my partner in life and my one true love...
Man & Woman:
Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following after you. For where you go, I will go and where you stay, I will stay. Your family & friends will become my family & friends. Where you die, I will die and there I will be buried. May God smile upon us and bless us. May the Lord do with me and more if anything but death parts you from me.
Pastor: BLESSING OF THE RINGS
The wedding ring is the outward and visible sign of an inward and Spiritual bond which unites two loyal hearts in endless love. It is a Seal of the vows ________ & ________ have made to one another.
Bless O God these rings, that ________ & ________, who give them and who wear them, may ever abide in peace. Living together in Unity, Love and Happiness for the rest of their lives.
Man:
________, I give you this ring as a symbol of our vows, and with all that I am, and all that I have, I honor you. In the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, with this ring, I wed thee.
Woman:
________, I give you this ring as a symbol of our vows, and with all that I am, and all that I have, I honor you. In the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, with this ring, I wed thee.
Pastor: UNITY CANDLE CEREMONY
________& ________, the two lighted candles symbolize your separate lives, your separate families and your separate set of friends. I ask that you each take one candle and that together you light the center candle.
Lighting the center candle represents that your two lives are now joined to one light, and represents the joining together of your two families and sets of friends to one.
Man & Woman: Lights the Candle
Pastor: DECLARATION OF MARRIAGE
In as much as you have each pledged to the other your lifelong Commitment, Love and Devotion, I now pronounce you husband and wife in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Those whom God has joined together let no one put asunder.
________ & ________, you may now seal this bond with a kiss.!

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