The Wedding
At the day of the wedding the imperial cathedral was grandest of all. As white was the color of the hour amaris was dressed in a beautiful white gown with a long trail. She stood out against the crowd as her flawless beauty captured everyone in the rooms attention...
"Make way! The bride has arrived!"
I'm the altar waiting for her was lucious dressed in the finest robe dark blue robe waiting for her to reach the altar. Many were in aw of the couples wedding and as amaris reached the altar the wedding soon began...
"I the grand priest of Trystia am honored to wedding the both of you. Duke lucious of the 2nd rank and princess amaris today wed. Let us start the the wedding. Close the gates! "
The gates were closed to ensure no one would cause chaos or disruption in the wedding but also to ensure the safety of the pair...
(Priest) "In the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy spirit."
[Assembly responds "Amen."]
(Priest) "Grace to you and peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ."
[Assembly responds "And with your spirit."]
Greeting
(Priest) "Be attentive to our prayers, O Lord, and in your kindness uphold what you have established for the increase of the human race, so that the union you have created may be kept safe by your assistance. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever."
(Priest) "A reading from the book of Genesis 1:26-28:
Then God said:
'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals
and all the creatures that crawl on the ground."God created man in his image;
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.God blessed them, saying:"Be fertile and multiply;fill the earth and subdue it.
Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth."God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good. The word of the Lord.'
(Priest) "A reading from John 4:7-12:
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through
him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.The word of the Lord."
(All respond) "Thanks be to God."
(Priest) "A reading from the Gospel, Matthew 5:13-16:
You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the
world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven."
(All respond) "Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ." Assembly is seated.
(Priest) "John 3:30 says 'He must increase, but I must decrease.'Those simple, direct words of St. John the Baptist, whose feast we celebrate today, summarize the life
of the Christian disciple. In all things, we want Jesus to increase and our own will, our own desires, our own attachments, to decrease. In my heart, in my prayer, in my family, in my parish, in my work, in my
study, in my leisure, in my entertainment - may the Lord Jesus increase!"
(Priest) "Dearly beloved, you have come together into the house of the church so that in the presence of the church's minister and the community, your intention to enter into marriage may be strengthened by the Lord with a sacred seal."
(Priest) " Keiran Lucious Nashanth Blackfyre and Amaris Elara Aysel Tymon, have you come here to enter into marriage without coercion, freely and wholeheartedly?
(Couple both respond) "I have."
(Priest) "Are you prepared, as you follow the path of marriage, to love and honor each other for as long
as you both shall live?"
(Couple both respond) "I am."
(Priest) "Since it is your intention to enter the covenant of Holy Matrimony, join your right hands, and declare your consent before God and his Church."
[Couple joins their right hands]
(Lucious)" I Keiran Lucious Nashanth Blackfyre take you Amaris Elara Aysel Tymon , to be my wife. I promise to be faithful to you, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, to love you and to honor you all the days of my life."
(Amaris) " I Amaris Elara Aysel Tymon take you Keiran Lucious Nashanth Blackfyre, to be my beloved husband. I promise to be faithful to you, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, to love you and to honor you all days of my life. "
Priest) "May the Lord in his kindness strengthen the consent you have declared before the Church and
graciously bring to fulfillment his blessings within you. What God has joined, let no one put asunder.
May the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God who joined together our first parents in paradise, strength and bless in Christ the consent you have declared before the Church, so that what God joins together, no one may put asunder.Let us bless the Lord."