Hazel: It is more than just flesh-to-flesh; it is mind-to-mind, feeling-to-feeling, soul-to-soul in this world & the next. Without family and friends beside them in joy as well as sorrow, this new couple would miss the greatest joys of life outside their own home. They are delighted that you have chosen to witness this ceremony.

Hazel: Remember that this is only a symbol, a celebration, a public recognition. It will not create a relationship that does not already exist. It is their marriage to define, theirs to make real, theirs to live. It is a time for tying a knot in the rope of their lives and saying; we will not slip backwards from here, but will go forward together. It is a time for one thing of which they are certain - their love for one another and their desire for that love to last forever.

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