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Good afternoon and welcome to Justin and Emily's Day, the day they have chosen to celebrate joining their lives together in marriage. What a special day this is.
A couple of housekeeping notes to make. If anybody gets overly warm, we have misting bottles in the back and we have cold wash clothes and a cooler.
So help yourselves. We'd rather have you get up and get something to keep cool and have you tip over.
And also if you would silence your phones and ask that you also abstain from reaching up and taking pictures and obscuring the photographer. Thank you.
You're also given a stone at the start when you arrived. Hang on to that stone during the service and you'll see a message on the back of your program that will be collected later on for Justin and Emily to hang on to.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
I'm Chuck Brookshaw. I'm Emily's dad. I'm not a pastor, but Emily and Justin have asked me to officiate their ceremony and honor they bestowed upon me for which I am indeed honored to do for them.
As I said, I'm not a pastor, but actually a carpenter. I build and remodel homes. If I want to join two pieces of wood together, I generally use nails and screws.
Not always this big. Sometimes they're bigger.
If I want to be sure that those two pieces that are fastened together stay together to complete the bond, I use glue.
I've been known to use lots of nails and screws and glue.
Others working with me will often tease me if not all right complain that I insist on using all this glue.
When we get finished, they'll say, well, that's not going to come apart.
To which I reply, it's not supposed to.
Justin and their walks of life have found each other. They fell in love. They have joined their hearts together, joined with love and compassion for one another.
Today, as they commit their lives to each other, they will complete the bond of their hearts in spirit, a bond completed by the mercy and the love of God.
God's love does not come in a tube, but his love will surround them in their relationship for the rest of their days.
So that'll never come apart.
In raising children, there are hundreds if not thousands of stories we as parents can tell about our children.
Justin, his mom and dad told me that he has an insatiable taste for being prepared, and it started at a very early time in his life.
When he was in preschool, Justin used to be ready with his clothes for the next day, so he would lay his clothes out on the floor so that in the morning all he had to do was get up, slide into his clothes, and he's prepared for the day.
Well, that worked for a while, they tell me, but then he wanted to take it to the next level.
So what he did, he got his clothes ready for the next day, and he put them on, and then he went to bed.
When he hit the ground in the morning, he was ready. He was prepared.
Emily, she's always been very driven, goal oriented, and highly competitive.
Not always the easiest one to have make choices and decisions.
When she was in 10th grade, I recall waking her one morning for school.
She shuffles out of her bedroom, hair a mess, head hanging down, making her way to the bathroom.
I called her from the kitchen.
Hey, Em, what would you like for breakfast? Want some eggs? Cereal? What would you like?
She stopped, head hanging down, thought for a moment, and she said, how am I supposed to know what college to go to
when I can't even make up my mind what I want for breakfast?
The question wasn't that difficult.
So today, Justin and Emily have made a choice to spend their lives together.
They have made the decision to get married, and they are prepared to move forward with their lives together.
Let us pray.
Eternal God, our creator and redeemer, as you gladdened the wedding at Cana in Galilee by the presence of your son,
so by his presence now, bring your joy to this wedding.
Look in favor upon Justin and Emily, and grant that they, rejoicing in all your gifts,
may at length celebrate with Christ in the marriage feast which has no end. Amen.
Justin and Emily have created their own vows to share with each other for all to bear witness.
Justin.
Emily, I take you to be my soulmate, my best friend in life.
I promise to encourage and inspire you.
I will always be honest and love you through good times and dark times.
I will forever create adventures with you, live a simple life, and seek the outdoors.
I will pray with you, listen to you, and continue to create happiness with you.
I will love and respect you always.
Justin.
I take you to be my soulmate, my best friend.
I promise to encourage and inspire you.
I will always be honest and love you through good times and dark times.
I will forever create adventures with you, live a simple life, and seek the outdoors.
I will pray with you, listen to you, and continue to create happiness with you.
I will love you and respect you always.
Justin.
Emily, take this ring as a sign of my love and faithfulness.
Justin, take this ring as a sign of my love and faithfulness.
Justin and Emily, by your promise before God and in the presence of this gathering of family and friends,
you have bound yourselves to one another as husband and wife.
The Lord establish and strengthen you that you may find delight in each other
and grow in holy love until life's end.
Amen.
We will collect the stones at this time.
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So much craziness surrounding me.
So much going on.
It gets hard to breathe when all my faith is gone.
You bring it back to me.
You make it real for me.
When I'm not sure of my priorities.
When I've lost sight of where I'm meant to be like holy water washing over me.
You make it real for me, yeah.
And I'm running to you, baby.
But you are the only one who saves me.
That's why I've been missing you lately.
Because you make it real for me, yeah.
Because you make it real for me.
When my head is strong, but my heart is weak.
I'm full of arrogance and uncertainty.
When I can't find the words, you teach my heart to speak.
You make it real for me.
You make it real for me, yeah.
Because you make it real for me.
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Let us pray.
Faithful Lord, source of love, pour down your grace upon Justin and Emily.
That they may fulfill the vows they have made this day
and reflect your love in their lifelong faithfulness to each other.
As members with them of the body of Christ, use us to support their life together.
And from your great store of strength, give them power and patience, affection and understanding.
Courage and love towards you and towards each other.
That they may continue together in mutual growth according to your will in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Well, please rise as you are able for the benediction.
Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, keep you in His light and truth and love, now and forever. Amen.
My dear family and friends, it's truly my honor and pleasure to present to you Mr. and Mrs. Green.
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Ladies and gentlemen, that is our first stage.
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Hello everybody. I'm going to say just a few words on behalf of Chuck and Judy and Julie and myself and probably the most important thing that I want to say is thank you very, very much from all of us for coming out here.
Being in Boulder, it's a great place, probably as nice as it gets, but it isn't always, it's not like driving to downtown Minneapolis, so it's a big commitment that you guys made and we really appreciated a ton.
And another thing I want to say, Justin and Emily, is look around here and these are the people that you can rely on always. They'll be there for you.
And that's why you invited them and that's why they came here.
So it's a pretty special bunch and Justin, you know how important my friends are and I know how important your friends are, so always treat them well because they're here.
I thought about this toast thing and what I'm thinking and what comes out of my mouth may not be the same thing, but I know what I mean to say, but I don't know what's going to come out.
I think that the Brookshaws and the Greens can all agree that both of these two have provided us an abundance of very, very, very proud moments.
And today is one of them, but there's been many, many proud moments and it's not all about sports, it's about life. Notice I'm staying away from that today.
And so I think my toast is going to be that we can raise our glasses here and I think we all kind of hope and pray that you two guys can create a life together with an abundance of and even more proud moments than your parents experience with you guys.
So here's to you.
So but I was thinking about something dad said, Emily or Justin plans and Emily doesn't with tonight's exception. So reflecting on a few different stories back when Emily was a little younger, she had a tendency to leap trails everywhere.
She left the toothpaste off and cupboards open and everything. She still does it. So Justin takes care of all that for an example of how they compliment each other.
And Justin, you know, he gets a little non adventurous and Emily's the other way. So she drags him out.
But so I think they'll they'll have a real good life together and do well for each other. And like Mark said, everybody here is here for you.
So there I winged it.
Hello, everybody. Hi. I'm the brother of the group, Eric, the youngest three. And as most people know, I'm notorious black shape hippie of the family.
And I got a I'm having a hard time with my words here. I got to do something to help him flow.
Thanks. Thanks. So yeah, being a notorious black sheep, one thing got a lot of help from my brothers and all their friends and whatnot.
And that being said, if someone were to tell me that Justin would be dating a free spirited goalie who loves yoga and helps foods and holistic vibes, I would say no way.
Not a chance. And then three months later, when I first met Emily, she pretty much took over the show. She she started.
I say it was it was Justin's birthday party when he turned 30. It was kind of amazing. She just walked through the crowd, give me peace signs saying what's up, dude, let's party.
And it was at that moment I knew that it was for real. It was really awesome. And I don't know, I just I think they're really great.
They bring out the light in each other and they're really great motivation. I think me and Jane, they really paved the way. I want to say thank you guys.
And I love you both, Emily. You're the best thing that's ever happened to without a doubt. And I'm really happy to have you in the family. Thank you.
Oh, and I'm not the black sheep hippie in the family anymore. That's what I wanted to say.
Yeah, so I just want to say thank you again for everyone that made it out here. As my dad said, it's not like going to downtown Minneapolis.
I know it took a special trip for us to be out here and every single person in here has had a pretty significant impact on our lives or played one role in one shape or another that has really made a difference in our lives.
And you couldn't be happier that you guys are out here.
Chuck and Judy, I just want to thank you guys for everything from the moment I went to your guys house the first time I met you open my or you opened up your arms with open welcome me with open arms.
I'm trying to say and basically from the first time I met you, I mean, I'm only talking about you guys a lot and everything she said is true.
You guys are some of the most genuine down to earth greatest people I've met so very happy for everything that I've been able to experience with you guys and can't wait to be a part of your family.
So to my parents, thank you again for everything here and for the men you guys have shaped me to be today and for welcoming Emily with open arms and basically my mom finally has a girl in the family.
It's been a long time coming and she's excited.
And last of my brothers, thank you for putting up with me for this time.
I couldn't have picked two better guys to grow up with and you guys are the best.
So thanks again for everything.
So Emily.
He prepared way better than me, but thank you guys so much for coming.
For the wedding, just the speeches I prepared everything else.
But thank you so much everybody for coming.
It's like so amazing to just think that you could have a wedding somewhere across the country and like people would actually come like we thought we were going to have a B list to invite because you guys won't come and everybody came.
So it's like the coolest thing ever so seriously thank you so much Mark and Julie.
Like you guys have been amazing.
Like I can't wait to be a part of your family.
I don't know where Mark is.
I'm trying to make eye contact.
Hi.
I couldn't ask for a better like in-laws.
It's just it's going to be so much fun in the years to head ahead and my parents like you guys have been the best people ever.
Dad you did awesome today.
Tell us to my dad at the wedding.
So so great.
Lauren and Sarah I don't know they've wedding planner and you guys have helped so much Daniel like Daniel photographer.
There's just a lot of people that go into this and you know that plans a wedding.
So thanks all you guys and then of course Justin.
You've like been my rock for like so long.
I wasn't going to cry but like he's like totally filled me up as a person.
And I feel like so much happier since I met him.
I really love you.
I'll save the day put your hands together one more time all those wonderful words.
Thank you.
That is our father daughter dance.
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