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Adam & Chelsea

08-21-2010

Shilo Inn, Richland, WA

The Vows:

Welcome, family, friends and loved ones. We are gathered here today to celebrate the wedding of Chelsea and Adam. We share in this formal commitment they make to one another, offer our love and support, so they may start their married life together surrounded by the people dearest and most important to them.

Two people in love do not live in isolation. Their love is a source of strength which may nourish not only each other, but the world around them. And in turn, we, their community of friends and family, have a responsibility to Chelsea and Adam. By our steadfast care, respect and love, we must support their marriage and the new family they are creating today. We must surround Adam and Chelsea in love, offer them the joys of our friendship and support them in their marriage.

 Adam and Chelsea thank you for your presence today and ask for your blessing, encouragement and lifelong support.

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Marriage is perhaps the greatest and most challenging adventure. It must be built from love and patience, dedication and perseverance, talking and listening. Helping, supporting and believing in each other. Through tenderness and laughter, learning to forgive and to appreciate differences. By learning to make the important things matter, and to let go of the rest.

No ceremony can create a marriage. What a ceremony can do is witness and affirm the choice to stand together as life mates and partners. So, I ask now,

Adam, will you take this woman to be your wedded wife?

Chelsea, will you take this man to be your wedded husband?

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Chelsea, Adam, your love, rooted in faith, trust and acceptance, will be the foundation of an abiding and deepening relationship. No other ties are more tender, no other vows more sacred than those you now assume. Your life will have joy and the home you establish will be a place in which you both will find the direction or your growth, your freedom and your responsibility.

If you are able to keep the vows you make to one another here today, not because of any religious or civic law, but out of desire to love and be loved without limitation, I ask you, before God and the ones you love, to share your marriage vows to one another.

Adam read vows. Chelsea read vows.  

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 Adam, do you have a ring for your bride? [“I Do”]

Adam, place this ring on Chelsea’s finger and repeat after me. “I give you this ring, as a daily reminder of my love and commitment.” [Repeats]

Chelsea, do you have a ring for your groom? [“I Do”]

Chelsea, place this ring on Adam’s finger and repeat after me. “I give you this ring, as a daily reminder of my love and commitment.” [Repeats] 

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Time has come for us to pause, and think of living as it was. Let us enjoy a song Chelsea chose to share with Adam, and all present here today. As we enjoy the song, Goomsman and Bridesmaid have a stone to be passed that I ask each of you to hold just for a moment and silently give a blessing or warm thought for Adam and Chelsea’s future together, and for your own future and those whom you love, for into the future we must all cross. Chelsea and Adam will keep the stones in a safe place and if they ever begin to feel alone, if their strength ever begins to weaken, they can hold the stones in the palm of their hands and remember the vows they exchanged and the love shared here today. [Stone gets passed to guest, music begins]

[Song ends]

Chelsea and Adam, a good and balanced relationship is one in which neither person is overpowered nor absorbed by the other. The strength of marriage comes not from a melting of two into one, but rather from a forging of two unique and valuable individuals inseparably to each other.

From this moment forth, let love be your equilibrium. Let love be the forceless force running from heart to heart. Let love create that sacred balance that can dissolve all stress.

Chelsea and Adam, it is with great honor and by the power of your love and commitment and the authority vested in me, to now pronounce you husband and wife! Family and friends, may I introduce, Mr. & Mrs. Crane!

Adam, you may kiss your bride.

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