Group Vows/Community Support
If you want to foster a community of support and include your family and friends, you may consider including group vows or community support. All wording can be mixed and matched and tailored to you liking.
The following would be said at the beginning as part of the greeting:
1)One of the great joys of this day is the joining together as a community of family and friends. ______ and ___ are filled with gratitude to each and every one of you for the loving, caring, friendship, and support that you have given them throughout their time together. Being able to share this day with you, surrounded by love and support, is a treasured blessing.
By your presence here today you celebrate them. I now ask each of you, will bless _____ and ___ in their marriage? Will you celebrate them in their times of joy, and support them and their marriage in times of hardship? .If so please say “we will”
Guests” We will”
2)As family and friends, you form a community of support and love that surround _____ and ___ and will continue to sustain them as they move forward in marriage. Each of you, by your presence here today is being called upon to uphold them in loving each other, and to fulfill their responsibility to love their community. Will you, surround this couple in love, offering them the joys of your friendship? Will you support them in their relationship?At times of conflict, will you offer them the strength of your wisest counsel and the comfort of your thoughtful concern? At times of joy, will you celebrate with them, nourishing their love for one another?
If so, please say we will.
Guests Respond: We will.
1)One of the great joys of this day is the joining together as a community of family and friends. ______ and ___ are filled with gratitude to each and every one of you for the loving, caring, friendship, and support that you have given them throughout their time together. Being able to share this day with you, surrounded by love and support, is a treasured blessing.
By your presence here today you celebrate them. I now ask each of you, will bless _____ and ___ in their marriage? Will you celebrate them in their times of joy, and support them and their marriage in times of hardship? .If so please say “we will”
Guests” We will”
2)As family and friends, you form a community of support and love that surround _____ and ___ and will continue to sustain them as they move forward in marriage. Each of you, by your presence here today is being called upon to uphold them in loving each other, and to fulfill their responsibility to love their community. Will you, surround this couple in love, offering them the joys of your friendship? Will you support them in their relationship?At times of conflict, will you offer them the strength of your wisest counsel and the comfort of your thoughtful concern? At times of joy, will you celebrate with them, nourishing their love for one another?
If so, please say we will.
Guests Respond: We will.
This wording goes after the ring exchange
3)______ and ___ have declared their intent of commitment to one another as witnessed by all of us, but we their community of friends and family are invited parties to this commitment and thus have a responsibility to this couple, and so do you who are present here today vow to support _____ and ___ in love, to contribute to this new community, and support them in marriage? If so, please say we will.
Guests: We will
3)______ and ___ have declared their intent of commitment to one another as witnessed by all of us, but we their community of friends and family are invited parties to this commitment and thus have a responsibility to this couple, and so do you who are present here today vow to support _____ and ___ in love, to contribute to this new community, and support them in marriage? If so, please say we will.
Guests: We will
