Opening Words
Cardinal Bacik: Angels, magicians, wizards, and all good beings, join with us on this happy day and let this be a day of gladness, thanksgiving, possibility, and good fortune for all of us, but especially Laura and Forrest, who are here to demonstrate and celebrate their love. We live in the hope of loving and being loved. Love is a miraculous gift, and a wedding is a celebration of that magic.
Forrest, do you take Laura to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, to love and to cherish, in sickness and in health, in good times and bad?
Forrest: I do
Cardinal Bacik: And do you, Laura, take Forrest to be your lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold, to love and to cherish, in sickness and in health, in good times and bad?
Laura: I do.
Vows
Forrest: Laura, I accept you as my wife/ with your strengths and your weaknessed/ I will be true to you in all things/ I will share what I have/ and who I am/ I will love enought to risk being hurt/ trust when I misunderstand/ I will keep you in heartache/celebrate life with you in joy/ and recieve you as my equal/ so help me God.
Laura: Forrest, I accept you as my wife/ with your strengths and your weaknessed/ I will be true to you in all things/ I will share what I have/ and who I am/ I will love enought to risk being hurt/ trust when I misunderstand/ I will keep you in heartache/celebrate life with you in joy/ and recieve you as my equal/ so help me God.
Ring Exchange
Forrest:With this ring, I thee wed/ and with it, I bestow upon thee/ all of my treasures/ of mind, heart and soul.
Laura: With this ring, I thee wed/ and with it, I bestow upon thee/ all of my treasures/ of mind, heart and soul.
Closing
Cardinal Bacik: Laura and Forrest, May your joys be as sweet as spring flowers that grow, As bright as a fire when winter winds blow, As countless as leaves that float down in the fall, As serene as the Love that Keeps watch over all. I now pronounce you husband and wife! You may kiss your bride.