It's our 6 Month Anniversary! So in case you want to re-live our ceremony like I do... please enjoy! :)
Music/Processional
*Adam to play everyone in*
Order:
Julia and Monte *Lauryn Hill*
Me and dad *Foo Fighters*
INTRODUCTION
Good evening. Our bride and groom
would have asked me to take a moment to thank all of you being here
to share this very important day with them. As all of you may know,
Nelson and Meagan are both… well… how shall I put this?
They’re geeks. There. I said it.
They love Sci-fi movies, Super Heroes and video games almost as much
as they love each other.
And so, before we begin, I’d like to
take a moment to recite for you some of the most romantic… and
geekyest quotes that Nelson and Meagan could find.
“There’s a lot of things you
need to get across this universe. Warp drive, wormhole refractors…
But you know the thing you need most of all? You need a hand to hold”
(Doctor Who)
See? Beautiful. But geeky.
“I would rather share one lifetime
with you than face all the ages of this world alone” Arwen to
Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings
“I came across time for you. I
love you. I always have. Kyle Reese to Sarah Connor – From The
Terminator
“If we join together, no force can
stop us” (Excerpt from the Klingon wedding Ceremony of Worf +
Jad-zia. Star Trek: Deep Space 9.
And of course… No geek wedding would
be complete without this quote. The final word on marriage in all of
Geekdome.
“Mawwidge- Mawidge is what brings us
togethah today. mawidge, that bwessed arrangement! That dweam
witfin a dweam. Then Wuv… Twu wuv… will fowwwow youuuuuuuuu
foweverrrrrrrr. So Tweasure your wuv.
MEAGAN
All right. Let’s get on with it….
DAN
And on that note. I think we are ready
to begin our ceremony.
An Irish Blessing, selected by the
bride.
May the gentle breeze bear witness to
this ritual and carry a message to all the lands.
May the sun warm their hearts, and its
ever-burning fire fuel their desire for each other.
May the sea provide for them its bounty
and comfort their souls with its sounds.
May the earth lend its strength and
reveal its mysteries.
BLESSING OF THE PARENTS
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are here today
to be witnesses to the union of Nelson and Meagan, whom we all know
and love. But perhaps none have loved and influenced them more than
their own parents. It is with great respect that we ask their parents
to bless this union.
Mary and Joe
Do you sanction this
marriage with your blessing and receive these two respectively into
your homes, with love, as a member of your family?
*we do
Nelson and Carmen.
Do you sanction this
marriage with your blessing and receive these two respectively into
your homes, with love, as a member of your family?
*We do
Thank you. Without your blessing…
this could have been very awkward.
BLESSING OF THE RINGS
And who has the rings?
Let us not forget that a ring is
nothing more than a bit of metal, precious metal, but metal none the
less. It is cold, until warmed by loving hands.
At this time, we are going to pass the
ring box around the room. I ask that each of you hold the ring box
for but a moment, and warm it with your love, then pass it along. As
you, their family and friends do so, please wish these two health and
happiness; all that is noble and good in life. When these rings come
back they will contain in their precious metal, that which is more
precious… that which is priceless: your love, hope, and pledge of
support.
In the meantime, Meagan and Nelson have
selected some readings that speak about who they are both as
individuals and together as a couple.
First, we would like to invite Juan to
come forward for a reading of the Essential Rumi
Reading of the Essential Rumi
When I am with you, we stay up all
night
When you’re not here, I can’t go
to sleep
Praise God for these two insomnias!
And the difference between them
The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you
Not knowing how blind I was
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere
They’re in each other all along
We are in the mirrors as well as the
face in it
We are tasting the taste this minute
We are in pain and what cures pain,
both
We are the sweet cold water and the
jar that pours it
I want to hold you close like a lute
so we can cry out with loving
You should rather throw stones at a
mirror?
I am your mirror, and here are your
stones.
Thank you, Juan.
Our next poem is going to be read… by you.
Starting from
Nelson’s side, going down each row, everyone has numbered lines of
poetry on the back of their programs. Starting with number 1 and
going through 24, we would ask that you each stand up and say the
line of your poem in turn. The poem is entitled
To Love is not to Possess by James
Kavanaugh
1- To love is not
to possess,
2- To own or imprison,
3- Nor to lose one's self in another.
4- Love is to join and separate,
5- To walk alone and together,
6- To find a laughing freedom
7- That lonely isolation does not permit.
8- It is finally to be able
9- To be who we really are
10- No longer clinging in childish dependency
11- Nor docilely living separate lives in silence,
12- It is to be perfectly one's self
13- And perfectly joined in permanent commitment
14- To another–and to one's inner self.
15- Love only endures when it moves like waves,
16- Receding and returning gently or passionately,
17- Or moving lovingly like the tide
18- In the moon's own predictable harmony,
19- Because finally, despite a child's scars
20- Or an adult's deepest wounds,
21- They are openly free to be
22- Who they really are–and always secretly were,
23- In the very core of their being
24- Where true and lasting love can alone abide.
Thank you all. Well done indeed.
HAND READING
Now, to our bride and groom. I ask that
you please take each others hand.
These are the hands of your best
friend, young and strong and vibrant with love, that are
holding yours on your wedding day, as
he promises to love you all of his days of his life. These
are the hands that will work alongside
yours, as together you build your future, as you laugh and
cry, as you share your innermost
secrets and dreams.
These are the hands that will wipe
countless tears from your eyes; tears of sorrow and tears of
joy. These are the hands that will
comfort you in illness, and hold you when fear of grief
overwhelm you.
RING EXCHANGE
By now the rings have been passed
through out the room. And now, the rings have made their way from
your loving hands which have endowed their precious medal with warmth
and happiness to the hands that will bear them into the bonds of
marriage.
Wedding rings have long been a symbol of love. Nelson
and Meagan, these rings are a symbol of your love for each other.
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. May your lives and your family always be encircled by love.
Nelson, please take Meagan’s left
hand in your own and repeat these words:
“I give you this ring as a symbol of
our love” (repeat)
“As
it encircles your finger,” (repeat)
“may
it remind you always that you are surrounded”
(repeat)
“by
my enduring love and faithfulness”
(Nelson puts the ring on her finger)
Meagan. Please take Nelson’s hand
and repeat after me.
“I give you this ring as a symbol of
our love” (repeat)
“As
it encircles your finger,” (repeat)
“may
it remind you always that you are surrounded”
(repeat)
“by
my enduring love and faithfulness”
(Meagan puts the ring on Nelson’s
finger)
I LIKE YOU POEM
The Bride has asked her brother, Jacob,
to come up and read another short poem.
I Like You by Sandol Stoddard
I like you because
If you find two four-leaf clovers
You give me one
If I find four
I give you two
If we only find three
We keep on looking.
… I like you because if I am mad at
you
Then you are mad at me too
It's awful when the other person isn't
They are so nice and hoo-hoo you could
just about punch them in the nose.
… I would go on choosing you
And you would
go on choosing me
Over and over again.
CLOSING:
Nelson, Meagan, you have professed your
love by exchanging your vows. You have symbolized your commitment by
exchanging rings. I have but one more question to ask…
Do you promise to outlive each other,
to pull time apart for each other, to change the future together,
to always kiss goodnight, and to be the
others’ player two for the rest of your days?
-I dos
Meagan and Nelson,
you have just engaged in a perpetual war that will drain you to
eternity.
And now, by the
power vested in me- by these two –
MEAGAN:
Say Man and Wife:
DAN:
Man and wife! You
may kiss the bride! Make it so!
*kisskiss*
*We return back down the aisle, Adam
comes down aisle playing our first dance song, we have first dance at
double doors leading in (Rupert Holmes- Escape)*
