Your Sample Marriage Ceremony
Below is a sample ceremony which will reflect your ceremony on the day.
This is to give you an idea of;
- how the ceremony will flow
- it's sentiment
- legal requirements (list in blue)
Customising your ceremony
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Charlie and George’s Wedding Ceremony
12 pm on Thursday 5th March 2020
Bradfield Park, North Sydney, New South Wales
To begin, on behalf of Charlie and George, I would like to welcome you here today.
My name is Michael Teulon and I am a Marriage Celebrant, I am duly authorised by law to solemnise marriages according to law
We are all here today to celebrate with Charlie and George a very important moment in their lives.
They have learned to know and love one another and have now decided to spend the rest of their lives together, as a married couple.
Marriage is a commitment to life. To the best that two people can find and bring out in each other.
It is a commitment from the heart and mind based on mutual love, trust, respect and the understanding that from now on, each partner will consider the other's desires and needs as equal to their own.
But real love is not about two people being totally absorbed in one another, it is about two people looking outwards, in the same direction – together.
Monitum of Marriage
Before you are joined in marriage in my presence and in the presence of these witnesses, I
am to remind you of the solemn and binding nature of the relationship into which you are
now about to enter.
Marriage, according to law in Australia, is the union of 2 people to the exclusion of all others,
voluntarily entered into for life.
The Asking
George do you take Charlie to be your lawful wedded wife/husband/partner?
George: I do
Charlie do you take George to be your lawful wedded husband/wife/partner?
Charlie: I do
The Vows
George please repeat after me:
I call upon the persons present to witness that from today:
I, George Allouache take you Charlie Wong (full names to be used), to be my lawfully wedded wife/partner in marriage / spouse.
Charlie please repeat after me:
I call upon the persons present to witness that from today:
I, Charlie Wong take you George Allouache(full names to be used) , to be my lawfully wedded husband/partner in marriage / spouse.
(If you wish to make your own personal vows, we would suggest that you say them here)
Ring ceremony
George please repeat after me
With this ring I marry you (place ring on finger)
Charlie please repeat after me
With this ring I marry you (place ring on finger)
Declaration
Charlie and George, now that you have made your promises to share your lives together in accordance with your vows, it is with great pleasure, I now pronounce you husband and wife/ partners in life.
Congratulations, you may kiss!
The signing of the register
Witnesses: Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten