I take you to have and to hold from this day forward. 

I promise to be generous with my attention and affection,

to be fearless with my love and careful with your heart,

to share our love with our friends and community and bring the world into our marriage,

to take care of us by taking care of myself,

to honor and cherish you for all the days of my life and to always,

always find a way to say yes to you.

 

 

 

 

A ring is a circle and the circle is sacred and absolute.  It is the circle of the planets and their paths, of the sun and the moon, of time and timelessness.  Of LP's, CD's and 45's, the hula hoop, and the beach ball. The period that ends a sentence, the path we make when we leave and come back to where we started, and the earth from which we are born and to which we shall return.  Of pi, the mandala, and the roundness of an eye.  Complete and never-ending, the circle, and these rings, symbolize the unity in which your lives are now joined and to which, wherever you go, you shall always return.