Wedding Ceremony
for
Eric and Lyndsie
Remember the love you have for one another and work on growing that love, every day. Just like your testimony of Christ was built, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little. Invest in your marriage every day with micro-investments of love and service towards one another. For it is upon those little things that eternal marriage is built. Marriage, as you know, takes work and commitment, love and sacrifice. So cherish one another, keep God at the center of your marriage. Love and hold each other's hearts, as if it were the most precious thing on the earth. Serve each other as if it were the only thing that mattered and allow your spouse to serve you. If you do these things, your marriage will be built upon an unshakable and eternal foundation.
With an eternal mindset, this ceremony is but a stepping stone along the path of your eternal progression together. Never lose sight that the value is in the journey, not the destination. Even after you are eventually sealed in the holy temple, keep this perspective and you will be just fine.
Jones and Miles kids commitment vows:
Eric and Lyndsie, would you please join hands with all your kids to form your family circle.
I am going to ask all of you 3 questions and I would like you to all answer with, "I Promise!"
Do you promise to love, respect and protect each other from this day forward?
All 13: "I Promise!"
Do you promise to always work out disagreements so that your family can grow stronger?
All 13: "I Promise!"
Do you promise to accept the responsibility of being a family, and encourage, and support each other in your new life together?
All 13: "I Promise!"
Just like the rings that Eric and Lyndsie are about to exchange, we have a bracelet for each of you that represents the promises you have made here today. (Hand out bracelets together)
Eric and Lyndsie:
As a symbol of our commitment of love to each of you, we present you with a bracelet to symbolize our family unity. 'Family' can mean many different things, and our family is certainly no exception. But to everyone, it is a tribe, a whole unit that functions around love. We vow to love each of you and only ask that you love us in return.
All:
I love you on three. "I love you!"
Vows:
As you take these vows remember this:
To love is to come together from the pathways of our past and then move forward...Hand in hand, along the uncharted roads of our future, ready to risk, to dream, and to dare... And always believe that all things are possible when we apply the principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities as a family.
Do you, Lyndsie, take Eric to be your husband, to be his friend, his partner in life, and his true love? To love him without reservation, honor and respect him, protect him from harm, comfort him in times of distress, and to grow with him in mind and spirit?
Lyndsie - I do.
Do you, Eric, take Lyndsie to be your wife, to be her constant friend, her partner in life, and her true love. To love her without reservation, honor and respect her, protect her from harm, comfort her in times of distress, and to grow with her in mind and spirit?
Eric - I do.
The witness’ commitment vows:
Would everyone please stand.
Do you as witnesses of this ceremony promise to support Lyndsie and Eric in their commitment to each other and their family, through all that life brings?
Witnesses: I do
Ring Exchange:
Lyndsie and Eric, these rings that you will now exchange are a symbol of your love and evidence that you are never alone, but carry each other with you in everything you do.
Lyndsie, please place this ring on Eric’s finger and repeat after me:
“With this ring, I thee wed.”
Lyndsie: With this ring, I thee wed.
Eric, please place this ring on Lyndsie’s finger and repeat after me:
“With this ring, I thee wed.”
Eric: With this ring, I thee wed.
In the presence of these family and friends I now pronounce you husband and wife!
You may kiss the bride!
Friends and Family, it is my great joy and pleasure to present to you...
Eric and Lyndsie Jones!
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