Option 3

Before you are joined in marriage in my presence and in the presence of these witnesses, I 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 two people to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life.

Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks to another day of loving. 

To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy; To return home eventide with gratitude, and then sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Declaration of Intent

_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.