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Civil Wedding Ceremony Script

This document outlines a script for a civil wedding ceremony, detailing the order of events including the entrance of the couple, speeches, the reading of marriage articles, and the exchange of vows and rings. It emphasizes the importance of love, respect, and mutual support in marriage, and includes optional traditions like the delivery of coins. The ceremony concludes with the official declaration of marriage and a celebratory kiss.

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Civil Wedding Ceremony Script

This document outlines a script for a civil wedding ceremony, detailing the order of events including the entrance of the couple, speeches, the reading of marriage articles, and the exchange of vows and rings. It emphasizes the importance of love, respect, and mutual support in marriage, and includes optional traditions like the delivery of coins. The ceremony concludes with the official declaration of marriage and a celebratory kiss.

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SCRIPT FOR A CIVIL WEDDING

1) Entrance. Proposed music: Canon in D by Pachelbel.


A) Entrance of the groom with the maid of honor (witness).
The groom waits with the maid of honor in front of the councilor.
B) Entrance of the bride with the best man (witness).

Good morning / good afternoon.


optional
We are gathered here today to unite in marriage
_____________ and _____________. Before reading the minutes
marriage, I would like to lead
A few words to the newlyweds and to everyone present.

First of all, congratulations on deciding to take the big step.


step that means joining your lives. In this happy moment
you realize in front of your loved ones that you have found
in the other, that person who completes you and with whom you deserve the
a shame to spend the rest of your days.

Ahora tenéis frente a vosotros un viaje lleno de sorpresas: una


whole life. Along the way, you will find everything. That is the
marriage: from moments of great happiness to situations that
they will test your strengths. You will have to navigate the
obstacles, but if you are firm in your love, you will achieve
overcome them.

Tolerance, respect, patience, affection, trust, capacity for


forgiving each other's faults and love are the ingredients
essentials of that magical and secret formula that will give you the
happiness.

To conclude, I would like to give you a small piece of advice: _____________,


______________, find love in great events,
like today, but also in the smallest things and
simple. For example, in the last goodnight kiss before
to fall asleep every night.

I can only wish you, from the heart, that the hope you have today
we see in you live on forever.

3) After these words, I proceed to read the marriage certificate:

At _____ hours of the day ___ of __________ of ______,


those who certify to be _________________________ and
________________________ for the purpose of entering into a civil marriage in
virtue of authorization falling in case number
__________.

I want to state that all have been fulfilled


legal prescriptions for the celebration of this marriage
civil, without having been in the substitute hearing of edicts
neither presented nor reported any impediment or obstacle for this
celebration.

Next, ________________, ___________ of the groom, will read to us


something that has been written in honor of the couple.
Music: The Postman (in the background of the reading).
5) At this point, I will read Articles 66 to 68.
of the Civil Code, to which you, _________ and _______
you will be authorized and obliged once you have contracted
marriage. These articles summarize what your
common life.
Article 66: Spouses are equal in rights and duties.
Article 67: Spouses must respect and help each other
mutually and act in the interest of the family.
Article 68: Spouses are obliged to live together,
to be faithful to each other and to help each other. They must also,
share domestic responsibilities and caregiving
care of ascendants and descendants and other people
dependents in their care.

6) Also ____________________, ________________ of the bride, wishes


Please say a few words to us. Go ahead.
Music: Meditation from Thais by Massenet (as background).

We have reached the key moment of the ceremony in which


you must speak up to confirm what you feel
one for the other.
So, I ask you:
, do you want to marry ____________ and
Do you indeed enter into it in this act?
_________________, do you want to marry ____________ and
do you indeed contract it in this act?

8) Now you can proceed with the exchange of the rings.


I, __________, take you, __________, as my wife and promise to be faithful to you and take care of you.
in wealth and in poverty, in health and in sickness, all the days of my life.

I, ___________, take you, _________, as my husband and promise to be faithful to you and take care of you.
in wealth and in poverty, in health and in sickness, all the days of my life.
8) (Optional step) At this moment, the couple will proceed to the
delivery of the deposit, a very old tradition originating from
The East and the Roman Law made it their own. Surely already
you will know that there are 13 coins: 12 of them representing the
prosperity that you will live throughout the 12 months of the year and the last one for
help those who have been less fortunate than you.
The master of ceremonies takes the tray and places the coins on
groom's hands)
(Bride's name), receive these coins as a sign of the goods that we are going to
share.
(Next, the bride will perform the same operation).
(Boyfriend's name), receive these coins as a sign of the goods we are going to share.

9) As a councilor of the City Council of _____________ and by virtue of


the powers conferred upon me by the legislation of the Spanish State, I
I declare you united in marriage. Congratulations, you may kiss.

10) Final and signature of the minutes. Music: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba by Handel.

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