Exchange of Rings
Rings 1
As you place the ring on BRIDE’s finger, please repeat after me:
You are the love of my life
And you are my very best friend
As you place the ring on GROOM’s finger, please repeat after me:
You are the love of my life
And you are my very best friend
May these rings remind you that your love, like the sun, warms all that it touches, like the moon, brightens up the night, like the eye, is a gateway to your innermost soul. And your love, like the arms that embrace you, makes everything right with the world.
Rings 2
As you place the ring on her finger, please repeat after me:
I give you this ring to wear
As a symbol of my abiding love,
My eternal faith, and my undying devotion.
It is an outward reminder of our inner unity.
As you place the ring on his finger, please repeat after me:
I give you this ring to wear
As a symbol of my abiding love,
My eternal faith, and my undying devotion.
It is an outward reminder of our inner unity.
Rings 3
As you place the ring on her finger, please repeat after me:
With this ring, I marry you and bind my life to yours.
It is a symbol of my eternal love,
My everlasting friendship,
And the promise of all my tomorrows.
As you place the ring on his finger, please repeat after me:
With this ring, I marry you and bind my life to yours.
It is a symbol of my eternal love,
My everlasting friendship,
And the promise of all my tomorrows.
May these wedding rings be a reminder to BRIDE and GROOM of the commitment they have made today and be as a testimony to all the world of their devotion in marriage.
Rings 4
As you place the ring on her finger, please repeat after me:
This ring I give you
Is a symbol of my love.
I pledge to share with you my heart,
My home, and all (most?) of my worldly goods.
As you place the ring on his finger, please repeat after me:
This ring I give you
Is a symbol of my love.
I pledge to share with you my heart,
My home, and all (most?) of my worldly goods.
Rings 5
As you place the ring on her finger, please repeat after me:
With this ring, I marry you:
With my loving heart.
With my willing body.
And with my eternal soul.
As you place the ring on his finger, please repeat after me:
With this ring, I marry you:
With my loving heart.
With my willing body.
And with my eternal soul.
May the vows and promises you have made today be as ever-present in your hearts as these rings are on your fingers.
Rings 6
As you place the ring on her finger, please repeat after me:
I offer my vow to you in the form of this ring,
so that my word and my love,
will always be with you,
close to your heart.
As you place the ring on his finger, please repeat after me:
I offer my vow to you in the form of this ring,
so that my word and my love,
will always be with you,
close to your heart.
Rings 7
As a sign of my love for you,
of choosing to share my whole life’s journey with you,
and of my knowing that in marrying you
I shall become much more than I am,
I give you this ring, with the pledge
That with you, I shall become my highest expression of God,
Sharing the gifts that I have and I am with you and the world.
Rings 8
Repeat after me:
I GROOM take BRIDE to be my wife.
I promise you love, honor and respect,
to be faithful to you
and forsaking all others,
until death do us part.
Repeat after me:
I BRIDE take GROOM to be my husband.
I promise you love, honor and respect,
to be faithful to you
and forsaking all others,
until death do us part.
Rings 9
BRIDE, I give you this ring that you may wear it as a reminder of my love for you.
GROOM, I give you this ring that you may wear it as a reminder of my love for you.
Rings 10
As you place the ring on BRIDE’s finger, please repeat after me:
BRIDE, I give you this ring,
as a symbol of my love.
I ask you to wear it as a sign to the world that you are my wife.
With this ring, I thee wed.
As you place the ring on GROOM’s finger, please repeat after me:
GROOM, I give you this ring,
as a symbol of my love.
I ask you to wear it as a sign to the world that you are my husband.
With this ring, I thee wed.
Rings 11
The wearing of a wedding ring is the outer sign of your inner commitment. It says to all of the world that “I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine”. We place the wedding band on our hands in two stages: first it is placed on the right forefinger and then it is moved to the traditional ring finger on the left hand. We do this for two reasons.
The first is that marriage is a free will act of commitment. You freely choose to be each with the other. To place your ring on your own ring finger, as you will do in a moment, is a symbolic way of making the commitment public.
The second reason is that the forefinger of the right hand is called the Heart Finger, for a vein runs from that finger directly to the heart. When your vows are exchanged you are, in fact, speaking heart to heart and thus it is appropriate that the ring touch the Heart Finger.
As a token of this love and devotion for each other, and of this covenant of marriage which you are entering into, I ask each of you to recite the words of the prophet Hosea, and to place a ring onto the finger of your betrothed as you do so:
“With this ring, I betroth you to me forever; I betroth you to me, in righteousness and justice; in love and compassion; I betroth you to me in everlasting faithfulness.”
GROOM: I choose you this day to love and confide in, to hold onto and to reach out from.
BRIDE: I choose you this day to believe in and share with, to learn from and to grow with.
(The officiant asks BRIDE and ROOM to repeat the next line together and, as they do so, move their own rings from the Heart Finger of the right hand to the ring finger of the left hand:)
Both: I choose you this day to give you my heart.
Rings 12
As you place the ring on BRIDE’s finger, please repeat after me:
I give you this ring
as a reminder
that I will love, honor, and cherish you,
In all times,
In all places,
And in all ways, forever.
As you place the ring on GROOM’s finger, please repeat after me:
I give you this ring
as a reminder
that I will love, honor, and cherish you,
In all times,
In all places,
And in all ways, forever.
Rings 13
GROOM, as you place the ring on BRIDE’s finger, repeat after me.
I GROOM, take thee, BRIDE to be my Wife.
To have and to hold,
in sickness and in health,
for richer or for poorer,
in joy and sorrow,
and I promise my love to you.
And with this ring,
I take you as my Wife,
for as long as we both shall live.
BRIDE, as you place the ring on GROOM’s finger, repeat after me.
I BRIDE, take thee GROOM, to be my Husband.
To have and to hold,
in sickness and in health,
for richer or for poorer,
in joy and sorrow,
and I promise my love to you.
And with this ring,
I take you as my husband,
for as long as we both shall live.
Rings 14
On this day…
I marry my best friend…
The one who shares my life, my love and my dreams.
BRIDE, I give you this ring
As a symbol of my love and devotion
I offer you my heart, my hand, and my love
I join my life with yours
To cherish and protect you as my wife
With all that I am…
With all that I have…
I honor you as my wife forevermore.
On this day…
I marry my best friend…
The one who shares my life, my love and my dreams.
GROOM, I give you this ring
As a symbol of my love and devotion
I offer you my heart, my hand, and my love
I join my life with yours
To cherish and protect you as my husband
With all that I am…
With all that I have…
I honor you as my husband forevermore.
Rings 15
Bride, place the ring on Groom’s finger and repeat after me:
With this ring,
I pledge my love and faithfulness to you,
today, tomorrow and always.
Groom, place the ring on Bride’s finger and repeat after me:
With this ring,
I pledge my love and faithfulness to you,
today, tomorrow and always.
Wear these rings as the enclosing bond of reverence and trust. Fulfill the circle of love that now makes you one.
Rings 16
As you place the ring on Bride’s finger, please repeat after me:
“This ring is our symbol that you are my lover and you are my best friend in all times, in all places, and in all ways, forever.”
As you place the ring on Groom’s finger, please repeat after me:
“This ring is our symbol that you are my lover and you are my best friend in all times, in all places, and in all ways, forever.”
May these rings remind you that your love, like the sun, warms all that it touches, like the moon, brightens up the night, like the eye, is a gateway to your innermost soul. And your love, like the arms that embrace you, makes everything right with the world.
Rings 17
With this ring – I marry you – and join my life with yours. Accept this ring – as a sign of my love and faithfulness – for all the years to come.
Rings 18
____, I give you this ring as a symbol of my vows, and with all that I am, and all that I have, I honor you, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Rings 19
____, I give you this ring as the pledge of my love and as the symbol of our unity.
Rings 20
With this ring, I thee wed.
Rings 21
You are my life, my love, and with this ring – I marry you. I promise to be open and honest in our partnership, and I pledge myself to you from this day forward and for all eternity.
Rings 22
With this ring, I pledge my constant and abiding love. I join my life with yours in loving kindness and compassion. I join my life with yours in faithfulness. This is my beloved, and this is my friend.
Rings 23
On this day…
I marry my best friend…
The one who shares my life, my love and my dreams.
_____, I give you this ring
As a symbol of my love and devotion
I offer you my heart, my hand, and my love
I join my life with yours
To cherish and to protect you as my husband/wife
With all that I am…
With all that I have…
I honor you as my husband/wife forevermore.
Rings 24
Just as this circle is without end, my love for you is never-ending. With this ring, I take you to be my partner for life. I offer you my heart, my hand, and my love.
With all that I am…
With all that I have…
I will honor you as my husband/wife forevermore.
Rings 25
I give this ring to you, my beloved, my friend, my wife/husband. Whenever I see this ring, I will remember the cherished bond we have created here tonight.
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