JOSE AND KATHERINE'S WEDDING CEREMONY

Music for seating of guests

Once Bride is ready, Grandmother is to be seated by ushers.

PAT TO THE FRONT

ENTRANCE OF GROOMSMEN

ENTRANCE OF GROOM WITH PARENTS

MUSIC FOR PROCESSIONAL

ENTRANCE OF BRIDESMAIDS

ENTRANCE OF BRIDE WITH PARENTS

We have come together to witness and celebrate the marriage of JOSE AND KATHERINE. While this is not a new relationship, it is a new beginning for JOSE AND KATHERINE, and in witnessing their marriage, we acknowledge that our support is important in their journey. They have chosen a marriage according to the laws and customs of the Province of Manitoba.

Who supports this woman in choosing to marry this man?

Both parents say We do.

Marriage is the joining of two lives, a fundamental commitment of love and mutual respect. It is a state of giving rather than receiving, but most of all, marriage is founded upon love. This love bears all things, hopes all things, believes all things and will endure all things. Love never ends.

The giving of yourself in love is difficult, for in your giving you must learn to give of your love, without total submission of yourself. Therefore, in your giving, give your joy, your sadness, your interest, your understanding, your knowledge – all expressions that make up life. But in this giving, remember to preserve yourself – your integrity, your individuality. This is the challenge of love within marriage.

In such a union you have now come to be joined.

JOSE will you have KATHERINE to be your wife?

KATHERINE, will you have JOSE to be your husband?

There is a desire for lifelong companionship and sharing, during sickness and health, joy or sorrow, prosperity or adversity. Marriage is a covenant and must therefore be entered into with certainty, mutual respect and a sense of reverence.

PLEASE PASS YOUR FLOWERS

Please join hands and repeat after me: JOSE

I JOSE, take you KATHERINE,

to be my wife, my partner and my friend.

I will laugh with you in joy,

Grieve with you in sorrow

Grow with you in love

and be faithful to you alone

As long as we both shall live.

Repeat after me KATHERINE

I KATHERINE take you JOSE

To be my husband, my partner and my friend.

I will laugh with you in joy,

Grieve with you in sorrow

Grow with you in love

and be faithful to you alone

as long as we both shall live.

May I please have the rings?

The ring is a circle and as such, is the symbol of the sun, the earth and the universe of wholeness, of perfection and of peace. The ring that you give this day, is the symbol of shared love into which you enter together as husband and wife, as lovers and friends. An unbroken and never ending circle symbolizes a commitment to love one another, which you have made today.

Place the ring on KATHERINE'S left hand, third finger, and repeat after me:

KATHERINE, I give you this ring that you may wear it as a symbol,

Of the vows we have made this day. And with all that I am, and all that I have, I pledge my love to you.

Place the ring on nose's left hand, third finger, and repeat after me:

JOSE, I give you this ring that you may wear it as a symbol,

Of the vows we have made this day. And with all that I am, and all that I have, I pledge my love to you.

Take each other's hands.

The binding of the hands is a bond between you. It symbolizes you walking hand-in-hand through life together. It is the completion of your vows to each other and a symbol for everyone here that you are serious in your intent.

As this knot is tied, so are your lives now bound.

Woven into this cord, imbued into its very fibers, are all the hopes of your friends and family, and of yourselves, for your new life together. With the fashioning of this knot do I tie all the desires, dreams, love, and happiness wished here in this place to your lives for as long as love shall last.

In the joining of hands and the fashion of a knot, so are your lives now bound, one to another.

By this cord you are thus bound to your vow. May this knot remain tied for as long as love shall last.

As any child discovers when they are learning to tie their own shoes, the first move is to cross the ends. The cross, or X, is representing partnership and union. As your hands are bound by this cord, so is your partnership held by the symbol of this knot. May it be granted that what is done before the gods be not undone by man.

Two entwined in love, bound by commitment and fear, sadness and joy, by hardship and victory, anger and reconciliation, all of which brings strength to this union. Hold tight to one another through both good times and bad, and watch as your strength grows.

KATHERINE AND JOSE NOW PULL ON THEIR ENDS OF THE ROPE, FORMING A KNOT IN THE MIDDLE.

And now for as much as you JOSE and you KATHERINE, have consented in legal matrimony and have declared your solemn intention in this company, before these witnesses and in my presence; and have exchanged these rings and tied this knot as a pledge of your faithfulness to one another; and in the joining of your hands you have accepted one another; Now upon the authority vested in my by the Province of Manitoba, I proudly pronounce you “Husband and Wife.”

You may now kiss the bride.

SIGNING OF THE LEGAL DOCUMENTS

MUSIC SELECTION

Family and Friends, will you please rise. It is my distinct pleasure to introduce you for the very first time, as Husband and Wife, Mr. And MRS. Jose and Katherine Martins.