- Wedding Rose Ceremony (Chantal)
CEREMONY ADDITION 002
You will need two (2) Long Stem Roses.
SAY Your gift to each other for your wedding today has been your wedding rings - which shall always be an outward demonstration of your vows of love and respect.... and a public showing of your commitment to each other
SAY You now have what remains the most honorable title which may exist between a man and a woman - the title of 'husband' and 'wife.' For your first gift as husband and wife, that gift will be a single rose
GIVE rose to GROOM
GIVE rose to BRIDE
SAY In the past, the rose was considered a symbol of love and a single rose always meant only one thing - it meant the words 'I love you'
SAY So it is appropriate that for your first gift - as husband and wife - that gift would be a single rose
SAY Please exchange your first gift as husband and wife
(WAIT FOR COUPLE TO EXCHANGE ROSES)
SAY In some ways it seems like you have not done anything at all. Just a moment ago you were holding one small rose - and now you are holding one small rose
SAY In some ways, a marriage ceremony is like this. In some ways, tomorrow is going to seem no different than yesterday
SAY But in fact today, just now, you both have given and received one of the most valuable and precious gifts of life - one I hope you always remember - the gift of true and abiding love within the devotion of marriage
SAY GROOM and BRIDE, I would ask that where ever you make your home in the future - whether it be a large and elegant home - or a small and graceful one - that you both pick one very special location for roses
SAY One special location so that on each anniversary of this truly blessed occasion you both may take a rose to that spot both as a recommitment to your marriage - and a recommitment that THIS will be a marriage based upon love
SAY In every marriage there are times where it is difficult to find the right words. It is easiest to hurt who we most love. It is easiest to be most hurt by who we most love
SAY It might be difficult sometimes to find words to say 'I am sorry' or 'I forgive you'... 'I need you' or 'I am hurting'
SAY If this should happen, if you simply can not find these words, leave a rose at that spot which both of you have selected - for that rose than says what matters most of all and should overpower all other things and all other words
SAY That rose says the words, 'I still love you.' The other should accept this rose for the words which can not be found, and remember the love and hope that you both share today
SAY GROOM and BRIDE, if there is anything you remember of this marriage ceremony, it is that it was love that brought you here today
SAY It is only love which can make it a glorious union, and it is by love which your marriage shall endure enabling them to march down the side aisle. They form again with arched sabers on the steps of the chapel.
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