celebratory speech

welcome all, some of us are strangers , some of us are just strange. But we have all come together because if two people. Here our paths cross and our mutual bonds and relationships are celebrated. We are here because these two wonderful people’s paths crossed and rather than let them diverge they have chosen to bind them together. You have spent a good portion of your lives as individuals, you may have worked very hard to gain the independence and functional life as an independent adult. You have done the work to be a better person, self sufficient, self reliant , you have utilized self reflection and self determination to get here but that time of your life was all about self , now we are changing that perspective and looking at life a little differently. You are taking a transformative step. You are getting married.

Humans can struggle to gain their full strength if they are lacking a source of support, a cheer leader, a safe space, a partner to push them forward. We want to be a part of something greater than ourselves. It is when the sum of the partnership is greater than just adding the individual component that we are enabled to reach farther do better and gain access to our full potential. We need ties, bonds, and relationships. We have to be careful that these ties do not become fetters, this a partnership -you are a whole person just as you are, as are you.You are not half a person, not half a goal, not half an accomplishment - you are half of a partnership, a marriage of two. Two people. Two hearts, two minds, two passions. You can not not nor should you fuse into one . Strength is found in two working together respect you individualities and turning them into assets . One should never dominate the others that isn’t love, it isn’t compassion, it isn’t romantic, it’s foolish.

You two have chosen to walk the paths of your lives together - a partnership that bridges your differences with love. Love is patient, love is kind, love is willing to compromise. Love is willing to admit errors, mistakes, and unkindnesses. Be willing to learn from these experiences to be learn better and be better. Life is hard at times as much as it might be nice to just have glitter and rainbows. But you will face that hardship together with your love, with your bridges, with your ties and relationship giving you strength to move forward with your wife beside you and you faces looking to the future

Please join right hands I will place these ties around your hands symbolizing your love, your ties, and your bridge.

Your vows Lilly let’s have you go first -do you Lilly take Autumn to be your wife to have and to hold from this day forward, for better and for worse, for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, to respect and honor, to communicate openly and honestly, to build a future of love, trust, and understanding from this day until death do us part.

Do youAutumn take Lilly to be my wife to have and to hold from this day forward, for better and for worse, for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, to respect and honor, to communicate openly and honestly, to build a future of love, trust, and understanding from this day until death do us part.

Lilly will you place Autums ring on her finger as a symbol of your love and commitment

Autumn will you place Lilly’s ring on her finger as a symbol of you love and commitment

I bind you together this night Autumn and Lilly that you will no longer fear the storms of life for you will find shelter in each other

Now when strength fails you you will be the winds beneath each others wings

now the darkness holds no danger -for you light each others path reaching out to aide when all seems dark

May your days be long upon this earth, may your footsteps be firm along your paths with your wife beside you

May each day be blessed with joy in each other

Please complete your knot, and seal it with a kiss

Autumn and Lilly everyone.