WEDDING CEREMONY – PRIEST SCRIPT

Priest: ___(Grooms’ Name)___ and ___(Bride’s Name)___, have you come here to enter into Marriage
without coercion, freely and wholeheartedly? Are you prepared, as you follow the path of Marriage, to love
and honor each other for as long as you both shall live?
           
Bride and Groom: Yes Father            

Priest: Are you prepared to accept children lovingly from God and to bring them up according to the law of
Christ and his Church?

Bride and Groom: Yes Father   

         
Priest: Since it is your intention to enter into the covenant of Holy Matrimony, join your right hands, and
declare your consent before God and his Church.

Bride and Groom: (Hold hands)

Priest: ___(Groom’s Name)___, do you take ____(Bride’s Name)_____ for your lawful wife, to have and to
hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death
do you part?

Groom: I do.

Priest: ___(Bride’s Name)___, do you take ___(Groom’s Name)___ for your lawful husband, to have and
to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until
death do you part?

Bride: I do.

Priest: Now give this ring to one another and say your vows.

Groom: ___________, wear this ring as a sign of my love, and loyalty, in the name of the Father, and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Bride: ___________, wear this ring as a sign of my love, and loyalty, in the name of the Father, and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Priest: In as much as you have pledged yourself, one to the other, by the exchanging of vows and rings I,
Karl Lourence Lapeceros, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Marriage Act, do hereby pronounce
you Husband and Wife.

Audience: [Claps]

Priest: At this time, the couple and their witnesses will sign the Marriage Certificate. I wish you a long life,
happiness, prosperity. May the vows you made to one another today sustain you forever. It is my pleasure
to introduce to you [Mr. and Mrs.___________; the married couple.]

Audience: [Claps]

Priest: ____(Grooms Name)___, now it’s your turn. You may now hug your bride.

Couple: [HUG]

Priest: Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. _________________.

Couple: [PICTURE TAKING with the Priest and Poseidon Marriage Booth Staff]