Suggestions for Introductions for Marriage Ceremonies

Suggestions for Introductions for Marriage Ceremonies

As an experienced Marriage Celebrant of fifteen years and as President of the Celebrants Association of New Zealand Inc I am often asked for suggestions, resource material or advice regarding marriage ceremonies. One request that comes up every now and then is how to begin a ceremony in a particular venue and here are a couple of ideas I have used and shared with fellow celebrants.

For a Beach Wedding

As the sea endlessly unites with the shore as the tide ebbs and flows so the love uniting Name and Name unites their hearts and minds with a never-ending passion. There may be times when their love will lift them high like a surging wave of surf or there may be times of calm and gentleness like a wave gently lapping a golden sand beach.

But they each know deep inside their hearts that their love, like the tide, is endless and everlasting. They know that they will experience the storms of life. That they may feel becalmed at times and that life won’t always be plain sailing but they also know that their love is an anchor that will withstand a raging storm because it has the strength and depth that will last.

That’s why they have freely chosen to become husband and wife today. 

In A Vineyard Setting 

True love, like a good wine, matures with the years. It should be savoured and appreciated for it’s richness and vitality, for it is the greatest gift of all. So how fitting it is to celebrate a wedding today, in this beautiful vineyard setting, where grapes are lovingly grown, tendered and nourished to be made into wine.

If the vines are grown and tendered with care, they will grow a rich harvest of grapes that in turn will provide a fine vintage wine, full of promise and vigor. So it is with love. A love that is nurtured and cherished between a man and a woman will fulfill them like nothing else can.

Wine symbolizes, vitality, life, love and consanguinity – such as the close affinity between a couple, who freely choose to become husband and wife in the sacred ceremony of marriage, as Name and Name do today.