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Our Wedding Day

Declaratory Words

I do solemnly declare that I know not of any lawful impediment why I, Leslie , may not be joined in matrimony to Valerie

I do solemnly declare that I know not of any lawful impediment why I, Valerie may not be joined in matrimony to Leslie .

Contracting Words

I call upon these persons here present to witness that I, Leslie do take thee, Valerie , to be my lawful wedded wife. , to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part.

I call upon these persons here present to witness that I, Valerie , do take thee, Leslie to be my lawful wedded husband. , to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Matthew 19:6

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
admit impediments. Love is not love
which alters when it alteration finds,
or bends with the remover to remove:
Oh, no! It is an ever-fixed mark.
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
it is the star to every wandering bark,
whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
within his bending sickle's compass come;
love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
but bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

William Shakespeare

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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