Sermon Tone Analysis

Order of Service

The Processional

Words of Welcome (once everyone is in place, the officiant will say a few words of welcome)

Opening Remarks and Introduction...

Readings...

Exchange Vows...

The Kiss...

Unity Ceremony...

Final Blessings

The Processional

Who is giving this woman to be married to this man?

Bride’s father answers: “Her mother and I.”

Words of Welcome

Good afternoon Friends and Family.

It is a pleasure to have you join us today for the birth of a new life.

Wait a minute, you may be thinking that you came to witness a wedding, well you did.

Today Brandon and Jazmine will join together and become one, completing one another, this will be the birth of a new life.

Let us begin today’s ceremony with a word of prayer…Prayer for Brandon and Jazmine.

Who is giving this woman to be married to this man?

Bride’s father answers: “Her mother and I.”

(Hand off flowers to Maid of Honor)

Opening Remarks & Introduction

Marriage is an amazing gift from God, it is an institution that was started at the very dawn of time.

In the beginning God created.

God created the heavens and the earth.

God created the stars, the land, and sea.

God then created animals; finally God capped off creation with the crowning jewel by creating mankind in His image.

26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us.

They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”

27 So God created human beings in his own image.

In the image of God he created them;

male and female he created them.

28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply.

Fill the earth and govern it.

Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”

7 Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground.

He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.

8 Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.

Brandon and Jazmine, as we have talked together these past few months about the new journey you two are about to embark, it is always important for you to keep an understanding of who you each are.

You both are created in the image of God.

You were created to represent God to one another first and foremost.

Then, as your family expands, you will represent God to your children.

Then ultimately you will represent God to your community.

As this happens, know that God will be looking down on the both of you say “What I have created is very good!”

You may wonder, how can we represent God to one another?

Let me show you.

When God created man,

Gen. 2:7-8

When God created Man, He realized that man needed a helper, later in verse 18.

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Brandon and Jazmine, as you wake up each morning going forward, I urge you to view one another as a personal gift to you from God.

The reality is that marriage as a whole, but yours in particular today, is a visual expression of what mankind’s relationship is like with God.

Marriage is a type of relationship that expresses the how intimate mankind’s relationship should be with God.

Just as when the Israelites came out of Egypt, is a type or image of salvation.

Just like the Tabernacle is a dual image, remembering the Garden of Eden, but also looking forward to a picture of Heaven and how we will live in the same space as God, God will be with us, always.

Marriage is designed to be that type of image, the image God originally intended back in the Garden of Eden of man’s relationship with God, and of the hope we have in heaven of consistent companionship with God personally, seeing Him face to face.

Much like when someone comes into relationship with Christ, a new name is given “Christian”.

Jazmine, you will now no longer be a Castillo, but a Hall.

Both of you now share the same resources, whatever belongs to you Brandon, also belongs to Jazmine; even the XBox 1.

Much the same way, everything that belongs to Christ, now belongs to the new believer.

I charge you both to remember, as you embrace this new life together, you are now a living example of what a relationship with God looks like here on earth.

This means that you need to continually work to strengthen each other, reinforce this idea with one another as well as when you are apart.

Make sure that those you come in contact with on a daily basis see and hear you encouraging one another.

Find ways to secretly encourage one another.

Most of all serve one another.

When Jazmine wins, Brandon wins; and when Brandon wins, Jazmine wins.

At the end of the day Brandon, it is a good day when you have Jesus and Jazmine; likewise Jazmine, always aim to keep Jesus and Brandon.

This will allow you to have a regret-free, satisfying marriage.

While you do this, God will always be present in your marriage.

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Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!

Just as you, Brandon, are declaring here today that you will love, and cherish, and protect Jazmine; and you, Jazmine, are declaring to be faithful, and loving, and willing to submit to the leadership of Brandon; allowing God to bless your household.

God also makes this promise to those that follow Him in :

19 I will make you my wife forever,

showing you righteousness and justice,

unfailing love and compassion.

20 I will be faithful to you and make you mine,

and you will finally know me as the LORD.

You two now have the privilege and responsibility of showing God’s relationship with mankind, but you will also receive the blessing of God’s presence and providence forever.

Readings

Brandon’s Vows

I want to make a promise to you, a promise that as long as I’m alive you will never be alone, you will never question if you are beautiful, you will never doubt that you are worthy and you will never wonder if you are loved, you are my angel, my soulmate, my best friend.

I believe you were brought in to this world and destined to be loved by me, cherished by me anxiously await to be able to love you forever as my wife.

Jazmine’s Vows

Brandon,

You are my best friend, my rock, my lover, my world, and my forever and always.

I’m not sure a lifetime is long enough to return all you have given to me, but I promise the rest of my days I’ll spend by your side.

To laugh with you and cry with you, to believe in you and support you, to always love you and to give you my all.

In poverty I promise to do everything to make our love rich and in wealth to never let our love grow poor.

Together we are better than we could ever hope to be alone, and today I give you my love, my trust, and my loyalty forever.

Forever and always, I will love you Brandon Richard Hall.

5.

Exchange of Vows

To Groom: , will you have this woman to be your wife, to live together in the holy covenant of marriage?

Will you love her, comfort her, honor her, and keep her in sickness and in health and, forsaking all others, be faithful to her so long as you both shall live?

If so, answer, “I will.”

To Bride: , will you have this man to be your husband, to live together in the holy covenant of marriage?

Will you love him, comfort him, honor and keep him in sickness and in health and, forsaking all others, be faithful to him so long as you both shall live?

If so, answer, “I will.”

Brandon: will you have this woman to be your wife, to live together in the holy covenant of marriage?

Will you love her, comfort her, honer her, and keep her in sickness and in health and, forsaking all others, be faithful to her so long as you both shall live?