Marriage is the union of

A greater sum than two in love.

Relatives are made by rites

Relating in-laws to delights.

In bringing families together,

A million lives are changed forever.

Go then in joy, yourselves to please:

Each love shapes many destinies

These things I promise I will do

That life may grant you ample grace

Because I love and cherish you:

I vow to treasure what is true

That I might touch whom I embrace:

These things I promise I will do.

I'll build a garden in your view

That with sweet fruit will stone replace

Because I love and cherish you.

I vow to love each day anew,

For love must dance through time and space:

These things I promise I will do.

I vow to make your terrors few

And then with you those demons face

Because I love and cherish you.

And now, as we make one of two,

A passage we cannot retrace,

These things I promise I will do

Because I love and cherish you.