Dear
friends, Thank
you for coming today, to this ceremony in which we celebrate the coming
together of two souls. aef and Hee-bon have chosen to spend their lives
together, and have made this time to share their thanks with all of us.
They would like this time to be for all of us a celebration of friendship
and of sharing. Everyone here today is involved in the happiness of this
couple, who thank you once more for being here.aef and Hee-bon have chosen
this Easter Day and this special place in which to confirm their love
and respect for each other. Their promises, which were made in January
this year, have only grown deeper and truer, and are shared with us today,
expressing the feelings of two people in love. aef
and Hee-bon, please exchange rings.
I
give you this ring as a symbol of our vows, and with all that I am,
and all that I have, I honor you. With this ring, I thee wed.
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The
wedding ring is the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual
bond which unites two loyal hearts in endless love. It is a seal of
the vows Andrew and Hee-bon have made to one another. We bless these
rings, that Hee-bon and Andrew, who give them, and who wear them, may
ever abide in peace, living together in unity, love and happiness for
the rest of their lives.
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Ms. Park,
Hee-bon. You have come here today to reaffirm your wedding vows.
Do you therefore take Andrew Edward Finch to be your lawful wedded
husband, to love and to honour, to cherish and respect, in sickness
and in health, for richer or poorer, as long as you both shall live?
Hee-bon : I
do.
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Andrew Finch. You have come here today to
reaffirm your wedding vows. Do you therefore take Park, Hee-bon
to be your lawful wedded wife, to love and to honour, to cherish
and respect, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, as
long as you both shall live?
aef : I do. |
We will conclude
this ceremony with the Blessing of the Apaches:
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will
be shelter for the other.
Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to
the other.
Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you.
May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through all the
years.
May happiness be your companion and your days together good and long
upon the earth. Treat yourselves and each other with respect, and remind
yourselves often of what brought you together. Give the highest priority
to the tenderness, gentleness and kindness that your connection deserves.
When frustration, difficulty and fear assail your relationship - as
they threaten all relationships at one time or another - remember to
focus on what is right between you, not only the part which seems wrong.
In this way, you can ride out the storms when clouds hide the face of
the sun in your lives - remembering that even if you lose sight of it
for a moment, the sun is still there. And if each of you takes responsibility
for the quality of your life together, it will be marked by abundance
and delight.In as much as you have each pledged to the other your lifelong
commitment, love and devotion, I now pronounce you husband and wife.
Andrew, you may kiss your bride!
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