(Seating Music: In Your Eyes - Strings)

(Walking up music: Seasons of Love) - Flower girls, ring bearer, bride and groom

Marriage! Marriage is what brings us together today. Marriage, that blessed arrangement,
that dream within a dream. And love, true love, will follow you forever and ever.
Welcome to the ceremony that will unite Samuel and Allison in marriage.
We gather here today to celebrate their union, and to honor their commitment
to not just gazing at one another, but to looking outward together in
the same direction.
Today Samuel and Allison proclaim their love to the world, and we
rejoice with and for them.

In marriage, we give ourselves freely and generously into the
hands of the one we love, and in doing so, each of us receives the
love and trust of the other as our most precious gift.
But even as that gift is shared by two people who are in love, it also
touches the friends and family members who in various ways support and
contribute to the relationship. All of you are Samuel and Allison's
community, and each of you has played some part in bringing them to
this moment. This is why gathering as a community is such an important
part of a wedding ceremony. Because Samuel and Allison are now taking
a new form as a married couple, and in this form, they become part of
their community in a new way.

Samuel and Allison, we are here to remember and rejoice with you
and to recount with one another that it is love that guides us on our path,
and to celebrate as you begin this journey together
It is in this spirit that you have come here to today to exchange
these vows.

VOWS

Samuel, repeat after me:

I, Samuel, take you, Allison, to be my wife /
I promise above all else to live in truth with you/
and to communicate fully and fearlessly/
I give you my hand and my heart /
as a sanctuary of warmth and peace/
and pledge my love, devotion, faith and honor
as I join my life to yours.

Allison, repeat after me:

I ,Allison, take you, Samuel, to be my husband /
I promise above all else to live in truth with you/
and to communicate fully and fearlessly/
I give you my hand and my heart /
as a sanctuary of warmth and peace/
and pledge my love, devotion, faith and honor
as I join my life to yours.

(Sarah McConnell and Nick Rush perform "At Last")

RINGS

For thousands of years, lovers have exchanged rings as a token of their vows.
These simple bands are not of great value in themselves,
but are made precious by our wearing of them.
Your rings say that even in your uniqueness you have chosen to be
bound together.
Let these rings also be a sign that love has substance as well as soul,
a present as well as a past, and that, despite its occasional sorrows,
love is a circle of happiness, wonder, and delight.

Samuel, take Allison's ring and put it on her finger, and repeat after me:

Allison,
Just as this circle is without end, my love for you is eternal/
Just as it is made of indestructible substance/
my commitment to you will never fail/
With this ring I take you to be my trusted confidante
and partner for life.

Allison, take Samuel''s ring and put it on his finger, and repeat after me:

Samuel,
Just as this circle is without end, my love for you is eternal/
Just as it is made of indestructible substance/
my commitment to you will never fail/
With this ring I take you to be my trusted confidante
and partner for life.

PRONOUNCEMENT

Samuel and Allison, although I am officiating here today,
it is not truly in my power to sanctify, legitimize or bless your
relationship in any way
because the two of you have already done that in your hearts.
So, by joining hands right now and looking into each other's eyes,
let it be known that you are joined, body and soul in this lifetime,
and that this bond is sacred and eternal.
And now that you have stood before me and exchanged these rings
and these vows,
and have agreed to be married according to the laws of the state of Kansas,
it gives me gives me great pleasure to pronounce that you are
Husband and Wife.

Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.
Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other.
Now you are two persons, but there is only one life inside you.
Go now to your dwelling to enter the days of your life together.
And may your days be good, and long upon the earth.

Go now in Peace.

(Leaving music is All You Need Is Love- Beatles)