A SAMPLING OF OUR WEDDING CEREMONIES
Heartlight Weddings provides wedding scripts, poems, suggestions for readings and any assistance you request in the creation of your wedding photography ceremony. On these pages you will find a few of ceremonies that have been favorites of couples through the years.
A Sampling of THE CELEBRATION OF LOVE SCRIPT
Opening Words
We are here to celebrate love. Love organizes our large and sometimes unpredictable world. Enshrining and ennobling our human experience, it is the basis for the peace of family, and the peace of the peoples of the earth. The greatest gift bestowed upon humans is the gift of love freely given between two persons.
Statement of Intention To BRIDE: Do you bride now take groom to be your husband, your partner in life, your lover and your friend? I do.
To Groom: Do you groom now take bride to be your wife, your partner in life, your lover and your friend? I do.
Ring Exchange
[to bride] As you place this ring on groom’s finger, please repeat after me, “I give you this ring, to wear upon your hand, as a symbol of my endless love and commitment to you.”
Final Blessing for Your Marriage: May your days be filled with happiness and a gracious spirit. Despite all changes of fortune and time, may that which is noble and lovely and true remain abundantly in your hearts, giving you strength for all that lies ahead.
A sampling of THE WEDDING OF HEART, MIND, BODY
OPENING WORDS
We are here today to celebrate one of life’s greatest moments, to give recognition to the worth and beauty of love, and to add our best wishes to the words and ceremony which shall unite ____ and ____ in marriage. This ceremony with wedding videography affirms your love for each other and your commitment to a life full of love, laughter, respect and tenderness.
Bride and Groom please face each other and join your hands, and in so doing, join your hearts.
Vows: To bride: With a ground of solid foundation, the breath of knowledge, the flame of inspiration and an ocean of understanding, do you now take ____ as your husband? I DO.
To Groom: With a ground of solid foundation, the breath of knowledge, the flame of inspiration and an ocean of understanding, do you now take ____as your wife? I DO.
EXCHANGE OF RINGS: You repeat after me for this section.
Groom please place the ring on Brides finger and repeat after me:
As a sign of my love and that I am choosing to share my whole life’s journey with you, I give you this ring and pledge you my love
Bride, please place the ring on grooms finger and repeat after me:
As a sign of my love and that I am choosing to share my whole life’s journey with you, I give you this ring and pledge you my love
And now as you ______ and you ________, have pledged yourselves to each other for all the days of your lives, it gives me great joy to pronounce you husband and wife.
You may kiss.
You are now Mr. and Mrs. ____________________.