Celebration of the Eternal Spirit of Love
A unique wedding ceremony for those of a more spiritual than religious nature. This ceremony is full of great ideas, but may need to be adjusted to fit certain circumstances.
Marriage is a supreme sharing of experience, and an adventure in the most intimate of human relationships. It is the joyous union of two people whose comradeship and mutual understanding have flowered in romance.
Today Other Happy Human and Happy Human proclaim their love and commitment to the world, and we gather here to rejoice, with and for them, in the new life they now undertake together.
"You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spades in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each of you be alone, even as the strings of the lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the land of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together, for the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow."
Other Happy Human, you did not come to be here without the love and support of others. You were born into this world and were nurtured and protected as you grew into the strong and capable man you now are. Who so loved the boy that he, in time, became this man?
And are you now willing to share your son that he may join this woman and will you now embrace her as your daughter?
Happy Human, you did not come to be here without the love and support of others. You were born into this world and you were nurtured and protected as you grew into the strong and capable woman you now are. Who so loved the girl that she, in time, became this woman?
And are you now willing to share your daughter that she may join this man and will you now embrace him as your son?
And so it will be.
Happy Human/ Other Happy Human, do you take Happy Human to be your wedded wife/husband, to share your life as your friend, your lover, your companion to grow together in spirit and in truth and forsaking all others?
By the exchange of these blossoms, symbols of Life and Spiritual Growth, you do now vow to love and cherish, each the other, and to nourish and support the other in spiritual growth.
As the lotus begins its life in the muck and mire of the earth, then reaches upward through soil and water to unfold its blossoms in the sunlight, so may your lives, entwined together to become one, grow upward in spiritual development and evolution, to open your spiritual life together in the Sunlight of Eternal Life.
May this candle flame, the symbol of spiritual illumination, be unto you both a symbol of God’s love and power. And by the lighting of each other’s candle you now signify your desire to share with each other the love, life and eternal goodness of the Divine Light of the Universe.
By the lighting of these candles, symbols of the Eternal Light of Life, you do vow to aid each other in times of bliss, in times of stress, to grow in the grace and truth of the Eternal Divine Mind
May we have the rings, please?
Happy Human/ Other Happy Human, please repeat after me:
By the authority vested in me as a minister by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by the power of eternal love and in the presence of these family and friends, I now declare that Other Happy Human and Happy Human are husband and wife/partners in life..
May blessings and peace be with you always.
You may kiss!