The Rose Ceremony
The Rose Ceremony is simple yet profoundly moving. The
bride and groom exchange two red roses, symbolizing the giving
and receiving of their love for each other throughout their
entire married life. The Rose Ceremony also conveys how to
use the rose and its symbolism in difficult times in order
to forgive each other.
Your gift to each other for your wedding today has been your
wedding rings - which shall always be an outward demonstration
of your vows of love and respect; and a public showing of
your commitment to each other.
You now have what remains the most honorable title which may
exist between a man and a woman - the title of "husband"
and "wife." For your first gift as husband and wife,
that gift will be a single rose.
In the past, the rose was considered a symbol of love and
a single rose always meant only one thing - it meant the words
"I love you." So it is appropriate that for your
first gift - as husband and wife - that gift would be a single
rose.
Please exchange your first gift as husband and wife. In some
ways it seems like you have not done anything at all. Just
a moment ago you were holding one small rose - and now you
are holding one small rose. In some ways, a marriage ceremony
is like this. In some ways, tomorrow is going to seem no different
than yesterday. But in fact today, just now, you both have
given and received one of the most valuable and precious gifts
of life - one I hope you always remember - the gift of true
and abiding love within the devotion of marriage.
_________ and _____________, I would ask that where ever you
make your home in the future - whether it be a large and elegant
home - or a small and graceful one - that you both pick one
very special location for roses; so that on each anniversary
of this truly wonderful occasion you both may take a rose
to that spot both as a recommitment to your marriage - and
a recommitment that THIS will be a marriage based upon love.
In every marriage there are times where it is difficult to
find the right words. It is easiest to hurt who we most love.
It is easiest to be most hurt by who we most love. It might
be difficult some time to words to say "I am sorry"
or "I forgive you"; "I need you" or "I
am hurting". If this should happen, if you simply can
not find these words, leave a rose at that spot which both
of you have selected - for that rose than says what matters
most of all and should overpower all other things and all
other words.
That rose says the words: "I still love you." The
other should accept this rose for the words which cannot be
found, and remember the love and hope that you both share
today.
__________ and ________, if there is anything you remember
of this marriage ceremony, it is that it was love that brought
you here today, it is only love which can make it a glorious
union, and it is by love which your marriage shall endure.
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