Rose Ceremony 1

Marriage is a coming together of two lives, and a celebration of the love of two people.

But it is more.

The love that you feel for one another

is the flowering of a seed your mothers planted

in your hearts many years ago.

When you were first born,

you were a bundle of diapers and tears,

and your mothers lost sleep caring for you.

Their love for you has brought them great happiness

 and great challenges, and their love did not diminish

as they met these challenges.

That is the great lesson you can bring into your marriage.

As you embrace one another in marriage,

so too do you embrace the families

that have been brought together on this happy occasion.