If you have quarrels that push you apart, May both of you have good sense enough to take the first step back. And may you have happiness, and may you find it in making one another happy. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophet powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all that I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Parental Blessing Minister - Others would ask, at this time, who gives this bride in marriage, but, as a woman is not property to be bought and sold, given and taken, I ask simply if she comes of her own will and if she has her family's blessing. Minister - With whom do you come and whose blessings accompany you. I would ask that Michael and Nancy's parents voice their witness on behalf of all here. Mike - Yes. Yes Mother of the Groom - So witnessed.