| Judge
Shawcross said, "In the quiet of this very
special moment, we have come to give thanks to
God for all the rich experiences of life.
Lysa and Ronald, Marriage is one of the most
important obligations that any two people commit
to in their lifetime. Marriage offers the
greatest challenges to overcome but, in return,
Marriage gives us love, strength and support
from one another. It is the couple who
preserves and demonstrates unrelenting patience
and faith who obtains the highest form of
happiness within their marriage.
A
good marriage is dependant upon many factors,
but the first prerequisite is a strong bond of
friendship and respect for one another.
Your love for each other will grow deeper with
the passing of each day, but genuine liking for
each other, the willingness to accept each
other's strong and weak points with
understanding and respect is the foundation for
a strong marriage.
When
two people pledge to love and care for each
other in marriage, they create a spirit unique
to themselves, which binds them closer than any
spoken or written words. Marriage is a
promise, a potential, made in the hearts of two
people who love, which takes a lifetime to
fulfill.
A
loving relationship is the unconditional
acceptance of another person; helping each other
to attain personal goals, to grow and
encouraging that growth. Each sees the
other as a friend who can be trusted, depended
upon and enjoyed. In many ways, marriage
is the ultimate friendship, one which is based
on love.
Lysa,
will you take Ronald to be your wedded husband,
to have and to hold from this day forward, for
better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in
sickness and in health, to love and to cherish,
so long as you both shall live?"
Lysa
said, "I DO!!!!" Very loudly!
Judge
Shawcross said, "Ronald, will you take Lysa
to be your wedded wife, to have and to hold from
this day forward, for better, for worse, for
richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health,
to love and to cherish, so long as you both
shall live?"
Ronnie
said, "I will!" Still laughing
at Lysa's response, along with everyone else.
Exchange
of The Rings
Judge
Shawcross said, "What tokens do you offer
that you will faithfully fulfill these
vows?" The rings were handed to the
Judge and he went on to say, "These rings are
the symbols of the vows you have taken. In
these rings is the symbol of unity in which your
two lives are now joined in one unbroken circle in
which, where ever you go, you will always return
to one another." (Lysa has fallen apart
by now!)
"Ronald,
place the ring on Lysa's finger and repeat after
me--with this ring, I thee wed. Lysa, place
the ring on Ronald's finger and repeat after me--
with this ring I thee wed."
"Now
you will feel no rain for each of you will be
shelter to each other; now you will feel no cold
for each of you will be warmth to each other; now
there is no loneliness; you are two bodies but
there is one life before you and one home; when
evening falls, you'll look to each other and there
you'll be; and you'll take each other's hand and
you'll turn together and look to the road you have
traveled to reach this, the hour of your
happiness- it stretches far behind you and your
future lies ahead- a long and winding road where
every turning means discovery...all the hopes, new
laughter, shared tears and the adventure has just
begun. Inasmuch as you have consented
together in marriage and have thereunto pledged
your faith each to the other and have declared the
same by giving and receiving of rings, by virtue
of the authority vested in me under the laws of
the State of Rhode Island and the Providence
Plantations, but most of all by the power of your
own love, I pronounce you Man and Wife. You
may kiss the Bride!
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