Don’t stress about writing your wedding ceremony, here’s an easy way to crush it on the big day!
You’ve been looking for a wedding ceremony script that’s impossible to mess up, right?
Something simple, sweet, heartfelt, and easy to read?
A script that won’t trip you up with big words or complicated readings on the day of the wedding?
Well, you can stop looking, because we found it!
Our friends over at American Marriage Ministries have a huge collection of sample wedding ceremonies and officiant scripts for first-time officiants to use for free, and this one really jumped out at us.
It’s sweet, includes everything an officiant has to say, and best of all – it’s simple!
A Simple Wedding Ceremony
PROCESSION
Beginning of the Wedding Ceremony.
INVOCATION
OFFICIANT TO THE RECEPTION
“Dearly Beloved and Honored Guests, We are gathered together here to join [PARTNER A] and [PARTNER B] in the spiritual union of marriage.
This contract is not to be entered into lightly but thoughtfully and seriously, and with a deep realization of its obligations and responsibilities. Please remember that love, loyalty, and understanding are the foundations of a happy and enduring home.”
DECLARATION OF INTENT
OFFICIANT TO PARTNER A
“Do you [PARTNER A] take this woman [PARTNER A] to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, in good times and woe, for richer or poorer, keeping yourself unto her for as long as you both shall live?”
PARTNER A TO PARTNER B
“I do.”
OFFICIANT TO PARTNER B
“Do you [PARTNER B] take this man [PARTNER A] to be your lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, in good times and woe, for richer or poorer, keeping yourself unto him for as long as you both shall live?
PARTNER B TO PARTNER A
“I do.”
VOWS AND RINGS EXCHANGE
OFFICIANT TO THE RECEPTION
“[PARTNER A] and [PARTNER B] will now exchange rings as a symbol of their love and commitment.”
THE COUPLE EXCHANGES THEIR RINGS.
PRONOUNCEMENT
OFFICIANT TO THE RECEPTION
“By the authority vested in me by American Marriage Ministries and the State of [WEDDING STATE] I now pronounce you husband and wife.”
RECESSION
End of the Wedding Ceremony.