Pastor : Dearly beloved, we are gathered here
to witness the union of two hearts.
This is the beginning of a new life for
Peter and Mira as they take their
wedding vows and unite themselves.
Let us now welcome Peter and Mira
with their parents and their families
and friends as we celebrate this joyful
moment together.
PROCESSIONAL
Pastor: Let us all be seated.
Claire
First Reading Lord, behold our family here
assembled.
We thank you for this place in which we
dwell,
for the love that unites us,
for the peace accorded us this day,
for the hope with which we expect the
morrow,
for the health, the work, the food,
and the bright skies that make our lives
delightful;
for our friends in all parts of the earth.
Amen
GREETING
Carol Peter, do you take Mira as your lawful
2nd Reading Somewhere I Have Never Travelled wife, to have and to hold, from this day
By e.e. cummings forward, for better, for worse, for richer,
for poorer, in sickness and in health, until
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond death do you part?
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near Peter: I do
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers, Pastor: Mira, do you take Peter as your lawful
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens husband, to have and to hold, from this day
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for
poorer, in sickness and in health, until death
do you part?
or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines Mira: I do
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture RING CEREMONY
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
Pastor: Wedding rings are an outward and
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
visible sign of an inward spiritual
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) grace, signifying to all your union in
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands marriage. As you wear these rings,
may they speak to you of this
moment and remind you of the vows
EXCHANGE OF VOWS of love you made to each other.
Pastor: Please join your hands together and offer Peter: Mira, this ring I give you, my
your vows of love to one personal gift and my personal
another. promise, of love and trust, and pride
that you are my wife.
Mira: Peter, this ring I give you, my sand are poured into the third
personal gift and my personal container, the individual
promise, of love and trust, and pride containers of sand will no
that you are my husband. longer exist, but will be joined
together as one. Just as these
SAND CEREMONY grains of sand can never be
separated and poured again
Pastor: The sand ceremony is a special into the individual containers,
ceremony that represents the so will your marriage be.
merging of two lives into one,
symbolized by the pouring of
DECLARATIONOF MARRIAGE AND PRESENTATION
two individual containers of
OF THE NEWLY WEDS
sand into one vessel.
Pastor: You have declared before all of
Pastor: Peter and Mira, you have
us that you will live together in
just sealed your relationship
marriage. You have made
by the giving and receiving of
special promises to each other,
rings and the exchange of
which have been symbolized
wedding vows. You have
by the joining of hands, taking
committed here today to share
of vows and the giving and
the rest of your lives with each
receiving of two ring's. By the
other. This relationship is
authority vested upon me by
symbolized through the
the Republic of the Philippines,
pouring of these two individual
I now pronounce you to be
containers of sand. One
husband and wife. Now that
container representing you,
the ceremony is over and the
Peter, and all that you were, all
experience of living day by day
that you are, and all that you
is about to begin, go and meet
will ever be, and the other
it gladly.
representing you, Mira, and all
that you were and all that you
May I present to you MR. AND
are, and all that you will ever
MRS. Peter Edgecombe. Peter,
be. As these two containers of
you may now kiss the Bride.
