BASIC WEDDING SERVICE

GREETING:  We are here in this beautiful place today to celebrate the love, and commitments of love of (groom) and (bride)…………..

PRAYER (Hawaiian and English):  E kou Akua Aloha, mahalo ia oukou no ke ia la nani ………

Loving God, we thank you for the beauty of this day and of this occasion and for your Presence here which makes all things beautiful.  Thank you for bringing (groom) and (bride) from so far away so that we can celebrate with them in this very special time.  So we commit this time and this service of blessing to You with gratitude.  Amen.

DECLARATION OF INTENT (the “I do’s”):  Do you take (bride/groom) to be your (wife/husband) declaring to love her/him, honor her/him, comfort her/him, and keep her/him in sickness and in health, through the good times and the bad, and forsaking all others, be faithful to her/him as long as you both shall live?

SCRIPTURE (I Corinthians 13: 4 – 7, TLB)

SHARING (Minister): 

VOWS:   I take you _______ to be my wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day forward for better and for worse, for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish forever.

RINGS:  This ring is a sign of my love – that with all that I am and all that I have, I will honor you.

PRAYER (blessing in Hawaiian):  Na Iehova oe e ho’omaika’i mai a e malama mai……………

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.  Amen.

PRONOUNCEMENT

KISS

PRESENTATION  (introduce as Mr. & Mrs.)