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"Dearly Beloved:
We are gathered here today in the sight of God,
and in the face of this company,
to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony,
which is an honorable estate - instituted of God, and therefore not by any to be entered into unadvisably, but reverently, discreetly, soberly, and in the fear of God.
You are performing an act of utter faith;
believing in one another to the end.
As the bride gives herself to the bridegroom,
let him be to her father, and mother, - sister and brother, and most sacred, husband.
As he gives himself to her,
let the bride inspire and sustain him.
Let her unite with him in all the experiences of life to which their paths shall meet;
the great moments and the small - that the joys of each shall be the joys of both - and the sorrows of each, the sorrows of both.
If you wish your new estate to be touched with lasting beauty, cherish those voracious visions of your first love:
let them not be blurred by the common events of life.
Be not moved in your devotion.
Believe in the ideal you saw at once: it still exists; it is the final truth."
-Moving marriage scene in "Woman of the Year" with Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
"I am the sky, says the...bridegroom to his bride;
we are sky and earth united.
You are my husband
You are my wife
My feet shall run because of you;
My feet shall dance because of you;
My heart shall beat because of you;
My mind thinks because of you;
and I shall love because of you."
From Northern Exposure, May 11, 1992. (What'shisname the disc jockey...then he added "Are you guys cool with that?")
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