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Heart beats fast Colors and promises
How to be brave How can I love
And I'm afraid to fall
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt
Suddenly goes away somehow
One step closer
I have died every day waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid
I have loved you for a thousand years
I love you for a thousand years
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Time stands still
Beauty and all she is
I will be brave
I will not let anything take away
Standing in for eyes of me
Every breath, every hour has come to this
One step closer
I have died every day waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid
I have loved you for a thousand years
I love you for a thousand more
And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I love you for a thousand more
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One step closer
One step closer
I have died every day waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid
I have loved you for a thousand years
I love you for a thousand more
And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I love you for a thousand more
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Ryan and Elizabeth have chosen to symbolize the newness of their marriage,
the joining together of two lives with the sand ceremony.
They come here today as two people,
but as they pour the sand together,
we see the two different colors of sand merging, even as their own lives will merge.
It's probably symbolic that they're poured out on the rocks,
because sometimes we all get rocky places,
but they're committed to be one,
from its fourth their lives will be merged together,
not just the two individuals.
To be my wedded wife,
to have and to hold,
from this day forward,
for better or worse,
for richer or poorer,
in sickness and in health,
to love and to cherish,
to faithfully honor,
to love and respect,
all the days of our lives,
for as long as we both shall live.
To be my wedded husband,
to have and to hold,
from this day forward,
for better or worse,
for richer or poorer,
in sickness and in health,
to love, cherish and faithfully honor,
as long as we both shall live.
You have rings to signify the nature of the commitment you're making today.
Rings are an appropriate symbol, being round,
they signify having no ending.
By God's grace,
the commitments are being pledged today to one another.
Right as you place the ring on Elizabeth's finger,
please repeat after me.
I give you this ring in token and pledge
of our commitment and love
for one another,
in the presence of God
and our family and friends.
May our love be as precious
and as long-lasting as this ring.
Elizabeth, please repeat after me.
In token and pledge
of our commitment and love for one another,
in the presence of God
and our family and friends,
may our love be as precious
and as long-lasting as this ring.
Hear these words from question, kindness,
loneliness, meekness and patience
for bearing one another,
and if one has a complaint against system
and sings psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs with thankfulness
in your hearts to God.
And whatever you do in word or deed,
do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Let us pray.
Lord, we have chosen for their,
the first thing they want to do
as a married couple is to acknowledge
their dependence upon the Lord
through celebrating communion together.
Brian and Elizabeth, the bread,
represents to us the body of Christ
that was broken on the cross for us.
Pour it out to pay the penalty for our sins
that you can be forgiven and free.
Take of the bread with thankfulness in your hearts.
Enjoy your spirits.
The cup represents for us the blood of Christ
that was poured out for us upon the cross,
our sacrifice, that we might be free,
that we might be renewed,
that we might live a new life.
So take of this cup. Enjoy.
He, as a minister of Jesus Christ,
I now declare that Brian and Elizabeth,
our husband and wife,
the ordinance of God and the law of the state of California
in the name of the Father and the Son
and the Holy Spirit, amen.
Whom therefore God has joined together,
let no man put asunder.
Brian, you may now kiss your bride.
Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to Mr. and Mrs. Brian and Elizabeth.
Applause
Ladies and gentlemen,
why don't you come up to the ballroom
for some refreshments
while they continue taking a few pictures.
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Thank you for continually pushing me to be better, to do better and for loving me when I least deserve it.
I am truly a blessing from God and your imprint on me will never fully fade.
Congratulations on one of the most exciting things life has to offer.
One of my favorite verses is Jeremiah 333 and it reads,
Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and insurchable things you do not know.
As you open the zoo chapter in your lives I urge you to take this in heart.
Don't move back for even a second. God has phenomenal things planned for you.
And I just want to let you show this.
Saying all of this makes me feel like I'm giving you a way to run too.
I know that whatever you pursue will be pursued with excellence.
That the mountains you too will carve out only lasting impressions on complete strangers.
The love story that you continue to build will overflow with the lives of the people you call home.
From the memories you will create will change the both of you forever.
I can say this because all of those things you have already done for me
start to write in Elizabeth and all the phenomenal things that they will overcome.
Congratulations and Ryan take care of my girl.
For the years from wands to elementary, junior high, high school,
all the sports, all the pitches, all the shots, all the goals.
Those are all moments that I cherish, moments that I'm hiding my heart from.
I didn't know that it was all going to end so quickly. I didn't know that time was going to go by so fast.
It's all gone in a blink. Now my time's over. Ryan, your time begins.
It's time for you to hold, protect, provide, to lead, to be the man my daughter's life replaced with me.
I would like to touch on something that Astor Steve already read.
I think it's worth reading it. It's very wise words. It's 1st Corinthians, 13th, 4th reading.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, does not boast, is not proud, is not rude with it, is not self-seeking, is not easily angry.
It keeps no records of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. Wise, wise words.
So lift your glasses to Ryan Elizabeth. I wish you a long, happy marriage. That you hold each other to God's high standing.
And that your marriage is an example of all others. Happy marriage.
Sir, if you have a microphone over there, we're going to put your hands together. Welcome to the microphone.
Thank you.
All right, well, obviously that was very nice of you. Thank you all for coming.
Thank you, Molly, for making all this happen over there.
Thank you all.
So thank you, a round of applause for all of you.
I want to say thank you to the Beat Your Family for allowing me to have Elizabeth as my wife.
And I just want to thank you for that.
And I thank you for my family for bringing us all here. I mean, everyone united as one.
And I just want to say thank you to you guys. And thank you everyone else for coming too as well.
Let's have a good night.
