Option 5

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 a man and a woman 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.