Welcome Message (OPTIONAL) On behalf of GROOM and BRIDE I would like to welcome you all here today and I call upon you to be fellow witnesses with me in their marriage.   We are not here to only witness their commitment to each other, but also to wish them well and every happiness in their life together. GROOM and BRIDE believe that marriage is founded on the sort of sincerity and understanding that leads to tolerance, confidence and trust.    They also believe that those qualities that have attracted them to each other can best be developed during a life spent together.

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So we celebrate with them the love they have discovered in each other and we support their decision to commit themselves to one another for the rest of their lives.

A happy marriage will enable them to establish a home where there will be love and stability, where you, their family and their friends, will find welcome, peace and support and which will be a base from which the influence of their life can extend.


Giving Away (OPTIONAL)
Who brings this woman to be married to this man? - "I Do"


Monitum (COMPULSORY)
My name is Tim Addison and I am authorized by law to solemnize marriages according to law. Now GROOM and BRIDE, before you are joined in marriage in my presence and in the presence of these witnesses, I am to remind you of the solemn and binding nature of the relationship into which you are now about to enter.   Marriage, according to law in Australia, is the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life.


The Asking (OPTIONAL)
GROOM do you take BRIDE to be your lawfully wedded wife, will you love her, comfort her, honour and keep her, in sickness and in health and forsaking all others keep only unto her, so long as you both shall live? – “I DO”

BRIDE will you take GROOM to be your lawfully wedded husband, will you love him, comfort him, honour and keep him, in sickness and in health and forsaking all others keep only unto him, so long as you both shall live? – “I DO”


Reading by Marriage Celebrant (OPTIONAL)
GROOM and BRIDE as the two of you come into this marriage uniting you as husband and wife, and as you this day affirm your faith and love for one another, I would ask that you always remember to cherish each other as special and unique individuals, that you respect the thoughts, ideas and suggestions of one another. Be able to forgive, do not hold grudges, and live each day that you may share it together - as from this day forward you shall be each other's home, comfort and refuge, your marriage strengthened by your love and respect for each other.


Vows (COMPULSORY)
GROOM, Please repeat after me.
I call upon the persons here present to witness that I, GROOM, take thee, BRIDE, to be my lawful wedded Wife.

And, BRIDE, will you now also please repeat after me.
I call upon the persons here present to witness that I, BRIDE, take thee, GROOM, to be my lawful wedded Husband


Reading by Marriage Celebrant (OPTIONAL)
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, difficult 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 with delight.


Ring Ceremony (OPTIONAL)
GROOM, please place your ring on BRIDES finger and repeat after me.
BRIDE, with this ring, I thee wed
Take it and wear it
as a token of my love
and as a symbol of all we share

BRIDE, please place your ring on GROOMS finger and repeat after me.
GROOM, with this ring, I thee wed
Take it and wear it
as a token of my love
and as a symbol of all we share


Blessing (OPTIONAL)
May your mornings bring joy and your evenings bring peace.
May your troubles grow few as your blessings increase.
May the saddest day of your future
Be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
May your hands be forever held in friendship
And your hearts joined forever in love.


Declaration of Marriage (OPTIONAL)
GROOM and BRIDE, you have declared before us that you will live together in marriage.  You have made special promises to each other, symbolised them by joining hands, taking vows and by the giving and receiving of rings, so, therefore by the authority vested in me, it is my great honour and privilege to declare you to be husband and wife.


GROOM, You may now kiss your wife.