Song: (optional)

We are gathered here today, to join___________________________ and _______________________ on the first day of their married lives together. To share their love and happiness, on such and important day in their lives.

May their relationship grow and mature with each passing year. As they receive life’s sorrows and lighten each other’s burdens. So too will they multiply life’s joys and enhance its blessings by sharing them in love. And so it is that we serve witness to a Promise and a Gift: the promise – Faith and the Gift—Love.

The bond of marriage is a binding covenant to be entered into only in the utmost of good faith and to endure for so long as you both shall live. Truly then, it is a beautiful tribute to your undoubted faith in one another; that recognizing the full import of you vows you are, nevertheless, so willing and ready to pronounce them.

(Groom)_________________________will you take this woman to be your wedded wife, to live with her in lawful state of wedlock, to love, comfort, honor, respect, protect and keep her, in sickness and in health, forsaking all others, so long as you both shall live?

(Bride)_________________________will you take this man to be your wedded husband, to live with him in lawful state of wedlock, to love, comfort, honor, respect, protect and keep him, in sickness and in health, forsaking all others, so long as you both shall live?

(Groom) repeat after me:
I__________________________, take you _________________________ to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, for as long as we both shall live.

(Bride) repeat after me:
I__________________________, take you _________________________to be my wedded husband, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, for as long as we both shall live.

Groom place the ring on the Brides finger.

___________________________, I offer you this ring, as a token of my love, to be yours for all eternity.

Bride place the ring on the Grooms finger.

__________________________, I offer you this ring, as a token of my love, to be yours for all eternity.

As witnessed before this company, __________________________and ___________________________ have consented to take each other in lawful wedlock, they have given and pledged their faithfulness each to the other, and have declared the same by exchanging tokens of their love, and by joining hands. And now by virtue of the authority vested in me under the laws of the State of Rhode Island. I pronounce them husband and wife, and declare that they have been lawfully married.

You may kiss your bride.