What is marriage? Why have you decided to commit your lives to one another in this way? What's the institution of marriage got to do with who you are and what you are doing? Answering these questions is a way to focus your guests attention on the role of marriage and the purpose of this wedding ceremony.
The second major building block of my 10 Steps to Building Your Perfect Wedding is the Invocation. In the Invocation, the first thing you want to talk about is ~
History: You are not the first people to stand hand and hand with your beloved before your community. Yours is not the first community to gather to witness. Your wedding is one in the long tail of history. As you stand today, so shall others stand tomorrow. Let's look at the questions this important segment might answer.
What is marriage? Marriage is the social institution that has created families in which we raise children and care for one another. No matter what certain pundits say, its purpose and its practice are continually evolving. Traditional marriage is a fairly meaningless term. But by proclaiming your allegiance to the notion of a lifelong relationship, you call on the strength of earlier marriages to support yours and you announce your intention to add your successful marriage to the ranks that have gone before.
What is the role of public ritual in successful marriage? Marriages that are rooted in their community do better than marriages without that support. In addition, saying things, out loud, before your community, helps clarify those things in your mind. So you become more engaged in keeping your wedding vows if you've declared them before your community.
What is the promise of Love in marriage? Love makes the impossible, possible. We are better people, in better relationships, with better dreams when we love. And commitments made and kept in love yield the most important and outrageous advances. Take the opportunity to remind people of the commitments that they have in love and claim that for yourself.
There is amazing strength in history's sweep. Even if your marriage does not look just like everyone else's (hint: no one marriage looks like everyone else's), you want to tap into the power of history, the strength of your community and the overwhelming transformative power of Love.
If you believe in marriage equality, this is a good place to state that belief: saying that you believe in the importance of the free access to legal marriage for all people.
In the midst of your wedding ceremony, before you make your wedding vows, proudly claim your place as people seeking your community's support as you declare your promises to live together in love. And then move forward into a happy and healthy marriage.
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