Marriage is never a singular or private relationship. It obviously involves the whole culture of family.
And the seven of you now are living with a new reality of your mother and your father as they enter into this relationship and this bond of marriage.
And so there's a role for all of you to extend to them your blessing and your agreement, to promise to make your beds and clean your rooms,
and to follow all of the instructions of mother and father and to honor this love.
My question to all of you, the seven of you, is whether you extend to them your love, your blessing and your great celebration in their love for one another and this marriage.
If so, will all of you please say together, we do. We do. Thank you.
Tom, if you would begin. I, Tom, take you, Yelena. I, Tom, take you, Yelena, to be my wife. To be my wife. I, Yelena, take you, Tom. I, Yelena, take you, Tom.
To be my husband. To be my husband.
I'm going to play your best analytics. We've got all bunchy there.
Can you breathe? Yes, sort of.
And I do promise in covenant. Before God and these witnesses. To be your loving and faithful husband.
Enjoy and in sorrow. In sickness and in health. As long as we both shall live.
Yelena, I give you this ring in token and pledge of our constant faith and abiding love.
Tom, I give you this ring in token and pledge of our constant faith and abiding love in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
God of all goodness and grace, we do thank you that you are the God of transformation, the God of resurrection, turning darkness into light, turning ashes into beauty.
And by your providence and grace, bringing Tom and Yelena together in this new relationship of love and commitment,
we give you thanks and praise for this relationship and pray your fine blessing upon them,
that they may always know your presence with them, calling upon you to be the center and the source of their life and their faith.
Strengthen them and let them be a blessing to others as well, for we pray this in the good and strong name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Whom, therefore, God has joined together, that no one put asunder.
By the authority and the power given to me as a minister of the Church of Jesus Christ, I declare that Tom and Yelena are husband and wife, according to the ordinances of God in the laws of this state. Amen.
You may share in the wedding kiss.
Wow. Good. I present to you Mr. and Mrs. Tom and the Yelena button. All right.
