WEDDING - RELIGIOUS SERVICE WITH PAUSES FOR CUSTOM WORDS OF DEVOTION
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[MINISTER:]
          PLEASE RISE, IF YOU ARE ABLE.
          IN THE DAYS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, AS CHRIST
          DISCUSSED WITH THE CROWDS ABOUT WHERE AND
         WHEN TO PRAY, IT WAS ASKED OF HIM: "MASTER, HOW
          SHOULD WE PRAY?"

{MATTHEW 6:9}
         AND HE ANSWERED THEM: "AFTER THIS MANNER THEREFORE,
         PRAY YE: OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED  BE
         THY NAME.  THY KINGDOM COME. THY WILL BE DONE IN EARTH,
         AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
          GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD. AND FORGIVE US OUR
          DEBTS, AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS.  AND LEAD US NOT
          INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL: FOR THINE
          IS THE KINGDOM, AND THE POWER, AND THE GLORY,
          FOR EVER. AMEN."
          PLEASE BE SEATED.

(GENESIS 2:21)
          A LOT EARLIER, BACK IN THE DAYS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT,
          IN THE SECOND CHAPTER OF GENESIS, IT WAS SAID: 
          "AND THE LORD GOD CAUSED A DEEP SLEEP TO FALL UPON
          ADAM, AND HE SLEPT: AND GOD TOOK ONE OF ADAM'S RIBS,
          AND CLOSED UP THE FLESH THEREOF; AND THE RIB, WHICH
          THE LORD GOD HAD TAKEN FROM MAN, MADE HE A WOMAN,
          AND BROUGHT HER UNTO THE MAN.

          AND ADAM SAID, "THIS IS NOW BONE OF MY BONES, AND
          FLESH OF MY FLESH: SHE SHALL BE CALLED
          WOMAN,  BECAUSE SHE WAS TAKEN OUT OF MAN."
          THEREFORE SHALL A MAN LEAVE HIS FATHER AND
          HIS MOTHER AND ND SHALL CLEAVE UNTO HIS WIFE:
          AND THEY SHALL BE ONE FLESH. 

          THAT IS ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE HAVE COME HERE FOR, TODAY.
	DEARLY BELOVED, AND HONORED GUESTS... WE ARE GATHERED
         HERE THIS DAY IN THE SIGHT OF GOD AND THE COMPANY
         ASSEMBLED TO WITNESS THE GIVING AND RECEIVING OF THE
         MARRIAGE VOWS BETWEEN THIS WOMAN, %%CUSTOMER1A%%, AND
         THIS MAN, %%CUSTOMER2A%%. THUSLY, JOINING THEM
         TOGETHER AS ONE FLESH. 
 
	MARRIAGE IS AN INSTITUTION ORDAINED OF GOD AND IS
          NOT TO BE ENTERED INTO 	LIGHTLY, NOR IN JEST, AND
          ONLY AFTER MUCH CONSIDERATION. 

	THE BRIDE HAS PREPARED HER OWN WORDS OF DEVOTION
          FOR THIS OCCASION... LET'S LISTEN...

[BRIDE:]
          (PAUSE FOR BRIDE'S WORDS OF DEVOTION)

[MINISTER:]
	THE GROOM HAS ALSO PREPARED HIS OWN WORDS OF
          DEVOTION FOR THIS OCCASION... LET'S LISTEN.

[GROOM:]
          (PAUSE FOR GROOM'S WORDS OF DEVOTION)

[MINISTER: TO THE BRIDE:]
	DO YOU %%CUSTOMER1A%%, TAKE THIS MAN %%CUSTOMER2A%%, TO BE YOUR LAWFULLY
	WEDDED HUSBAND,
AND PROMISE TO LOVE HIM WITHOUT RESERVATION,
	TO COMFORT HIM IN TIMES OF DISTRESS,
	ENCOURAGE HIM TO ACHIEVE HIS GOALS,
	TO LAUGH WITH HIM AND CRY WITH HIM,
	TO GROW WITH HIM IN MIND, AND SPIRIT,
	TO ALWAYS BE OPEN AND HONEST WITH HIM,
	AND TO CHERISH HIM FOR AS LONG AS YOU BOTH SHALL LIVE?
...IF SO, ANSWER "I DO".

(PAUSE FOR BRIDE'S RESPONSE)

[MINISTER: TO THE GROOM:]
	DO YOU %%CUSTOMER2A%%, TAKE THIS WOMAN
         %%CUSTOMER1A%% TO BE YOUR LAWFULLY
	WEDDED WIFE, AND PROMISE TO LOVE HER
         WITHOUT RESERVATION,
	TO COMFORT HER IN TIMES OF DISTRESS,
	ENCOURAGE HER TO ACHIEVE HER GOALS,
	TO LAUGH WITH HER AND CRY WITH HER,
	TO GROW WITH HER IN MIND, AND SPIRIT,
	TO ALWAYS BE OPEN AND HONEST WITH HER,
	AND TO CHERISH HER FOR AS LONG AS YOU BOTH SHALL LIVE?
...IF SO, ANSWER "I DO".

(PAUSE FOR GROOM'S RESPONSE)

	IF THERE BE ANYONE PRESENT WHO MAY SHOW JUST AND
         LAWFUL CAUSE WHY THIS COUPLE MAY NOT BE LEGALLY
         WED, LET THEM SPEAK NOW OR FOREVER HOLD THIER PEACE. 

(PAUSE FOR UNLIKELY RESPONSE)

	THE HAPPY COUPLE WILL NOW TAKE THIS MOMENT TO
          EXCHANGE THIER TOKENS OF LOVE.

(MINISTER TAKES RINGS, AND RECITE'S PRAYER)
          HEAVENLY FATHER, BY YOUR BLESSING, LET THESE RINGS BE
          TO %%CUSTOMER1A%%, AND %%CUSTOMER2A%%, SYMBOLS OF
          LOVE AND FAITHFULNESS, TO REMIND THEM OF THE VOW AND
          COVENANT WHICH THEY HAVE MADE THIS DAY THROUGH JESUS
          CHRIST OUR LORD.  AMEN.

(EXCHANGE RINGS) 

         LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE ALL OUR DUCKS IN A ROW, SO...
	BY THE AUTHORITY VESTED IN ME BY THE STATE OF
         %%STATE%%,  I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU TO BE HUSBAND AND
         WIFE.  AND WHAT GOD HATH JOINED TOGETHER, LET NO
         MAN OR WOMAN PUT ASUNDER.
