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Contents MUSIC TO SET THE MOOD (Optional) ............................................................................................. 2 INTRODUCTION & WELCOME ......................................................................................................... 2 VOWS & (OPTIONAL) RINGS ............................................................................................................. 4 THE KISS (optional) ............................................................................................................................... 5 SIGNING .................................................................................................................................................. 5 PRONOUNCEMENT ............................................................................................................................. 6
MUSIC TO SET THE MOOD (Optional)
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INTRODUCTION & WELCOME
Celebrant: Welcome all, let’s begin the Marriage ceremony of <Party 2> & <Party 1>,?
Thank you everyone, for coming today.
My name is Ludwig Szymkow, you may call me Lou, and I am very honoured to have been invited by <Party 2> & <Party 1>, to help them to celebrate this amazing turning point in their lives.
I am the registered marriage celebrant authorised to solemnise this marriage according to the law.
<Party 2> & <Party 1>; please take each other hands as I say, before you are joined in marriage in my presence, and in the presence of these witnesses, I am to remind you of the solemn and binding nature of the relationship into which you are now about to enter. Marriage, according to law in Australia, is the union two people to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life.
to witness that I, <Party 1 FULL NAME>, take you, <Party 2 – FULL NAME> to be my Lawful wedded <wife/spouse/partner>.
<Party 1>: <repeats>
Celebrant: <Party 1>, please place it on the ring finger of
<Party 2>’s left hand
so that it is closest to her heart. …and now repeat after me:
<Party 1>: this ring is a symbol of our unending love. <Party 2>, I give you this ring as a symbol of my vow, (<Party 1> places the ring onto the ring finger of <Party 2>’s left hand)
Celebrant: <Party 2>, now it’s your turn,
please repeat after me: I call upon the persons here present
to witness that I, <Party 2> take you, <Party 1> to be my Lawful wedded <husband/spouse/partner>.
<Party 2>: (repeats)
Celebrant: <Party 2>, please take this additional ring, this further symbol of your unending love, and place it on the <Party 1>’s ring finger, so that it will be close to his heart
I give you this ring as a symbol of my vow,
(<Party 2> places the ring onto the ring finger of <Party 1>’s left hand)
THE KISS (optional)
Celebrant: Then you should now, kiss for the first time as <husband/spouse/partner> and <wife/spouse/partner>.
<the kiss>
SIGNING
Celebrant: <<Party 2> & <Party 1> sign>
I now like to invite <Witness 1> and <Witness 2>, to bear witness to this moment.
Celebrant: With vows & rings exchanged, Certificates signed, to conclude this marriage ceremony, Music begins, slowing increasing in volume, <Track 7- On top of the World Imagine Dragons 3:12>
I have immense pleasure in pronouncing you to be married: