This day you have chosen to affirm your love for each other with spoken words, with prayer, and with the sharing of symbols. It offers opportunities for sharing and growth no other human relationship can equal, a physical and emotional joining that is promised for a lifetime. Within the circle of it's love, marriage encompasses all of life's most important relationships, a wife and husband are each other's best friend, confidant, lover, teacher and listener. There may come times when one partner is heartbroken or ailing, and the love of the other brings healing and steadfastness of a sturdy foundation that allows the marriage covenant to be established. Marriage deepens and enriches every facet of life.
Marriage understands and forgives the mistakes life is unable to avoid.
It encourages and nurtures new life, new experiences, and new ways of expressing love through the seasons of life. When two people pledge to love and care for each other in marriage, they create a spirit unique to themselves, which binds them closer than any spoken or written words. Marriage is a promise, a potential, made in the hearts of two people who love, which takes a lifetime to fulfill. For those of us who call Hawaii home, the flower lei is a symbol of love, it is also a symbol of things fragile and temporal. Our lives are like the lei within the span of eternity.