SAMPLES
1.Members of both families are present, filled with joy and maybe even a touch of sadness, but content in the love they feel for you. Honor the love of your families, which has been about you all the days of your life. Honor that love by loving and honoring each other. As a symbol of the love of these two families, who presents John to be married to Mary?

2. The wedding is a time of pride and hope, memories and sadness, but above all great joy and deep love. Out of all these feelings come the best wishes of your friends and family.
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and , with joy and love, do you bless John and Mary, wishing them the best of lives together?

3. Your parents have struggled through diapers, homework, the teen years, and who knows what else helping you to arrive at this point. (Couples may wish to add a FEW memories here). Doubtless their help will continue, but the marriage is a clear point of breaking away from the parental home to establish a home of your own, to set out on your own marriage pilgrimage. At the beginnings of such an exciting journey, it is customary for friends and family to join you in your hopes for your marriage and wish you well.
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XXX and XXX, do you share the hopes of and extend your blessings to John and Mary?