Option 3

George Eliot said, What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow,

to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories? I am duly authorized by law to solemnize marriages according to the law. Before you are joined in marriage in my presence and in the presence of these witnesses, am to remind you of the solemn and binding nature of the relationship into which you are now about to enter.

Marriage, according to law in Australia, is the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life.

_groomname_ please repeat after me

I call upon the persons here present to witness that I, _groomfullname_ take, _bridefullname_ to be my lawful wedded wife.

_bridename_ Please repeat after me.

I call upon the persons here present to witness that I, _bridefullname_ take, _groomfullname_ to be my lawful wedded husband.