We have come together today in a community of love, to witness and support the union of _________________ and _________________. We celebrate this occasion which is both solemn and joyful. It is solemn because it establishes that _________________ and _________________ should become a union of two persons. This is also a joyful time for now a love will have taken a great step toward fulfillment.

This adventure begins with the honesty existing between _________________ and _________________ and among you who witness this event. Be it known to you all that the responsibility for the integrity with which _________________ and _________________ make this covenant finally rests upon their own hearts and on their friends and relatives in this community.

We are gathered here to join _________________ and _________________ in their Union.

_________________, will you take _________________ to be your partner? (respond I Will)

(repeat after me) I take you to be my partner, and I promise before these witnesses, to be your loving and faithful partner, to have and to hold, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, to love and cherish from this day forward.

_________________, will you take _________________ to be your partner? (respond I Will)

(repeat after me) I take you to be my partner, and I promise before these witnesses, to be your loving and faithful partner, to have and to hold, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, to love and cherish from this day forward.

(exchange rings: both repeat after me) This ring I give thee, in token and pledge of our constant and abiding love.

By the authority vested in me by the State of Vermont, I now join you in a Civil Marriage.

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