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Wine Ceremony
Wine Ceremony 1
Minister: The years of life
are as a cup of wine poured out for you to drink. This “Cup
of Life” contains within it a wine with certain properties that
are sweet and symbolic of happiness, joy, hope, peace, love and delight.
This same wine also holds some bitter properties that are symbolic
of disappointment, sorrow, grief, despair, and life’s trials
and tribulations. Together the sweet and the bitter represent “Life’s
Journey” and all of the experiences that are a natural part
of it. Those who drink deeply from the “Cup of Life” with
an open heart and willing spirit, invite the full range of challenges
and experiences into their being.
Officiant pours wine into goblet
and holds it up and says.
This “Cup of Life” is symbolic of the pledges you have
made to one another to share together the fullness of life. As you
drink from this cup, you acknowledge to one another that your lives,
until this moment separate, have become one. Drink now, and may the
cup of your lives be sweet and full to running over."
Officiant hands glass to groom, who drinks, then hands it to bride,
who drinks, who passes it back to officiant.
Minister: As you have shared
this cup of wine, so may you share your lives. May all the sweetness
that it holds for you be the sweeter because you taste it together.
May you find life’s joys heightened, it’s bitterness sweetened,
and all of life enriched by God’s blessings upon you.
Breaking of Wine Glass:
In accordance with the ancient tradition, we wish that the years
of your marriage be no less than the time it would take to put these
fragments back together again.
Wine Ceremony 2
In this ancient ceremony, BILL and JANE will dedicate their devotion to one another in full realization of the many challenges that life will place in their paths and the many opportunities they will have to confront and overcome each new challenge as it presents itself.
Minister: (Pouring wine into the glass)
Into this goblet we pour the bitter and the sweet even as life itself will pour into this relationship its rich and varied wines of experience. Only in the deepest fellowship of shared love may its bitterness be so blended with the sweet that your lives together may be full and brave.
BILL: (presenting the glass to JANE)
I offer this cup of life to you to share in all its sweetness and joys.
JANE: (After drinking from the glass presents it to
BILL saying) I share this cup of life with you that we may partake of
a common life together.
(BILL then drinks the remainder of the wine)
Breaking of Wine Glass:
In accordance with the ancient tradition, we wish that the years of
your marriage be no less than the time it would take to put these fragments
back together again.
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