This is the wedding script that I wrote for the very first same sex couple marriage ceremony that I officiated. It is significant for me because seeing the tremendous love between these two beautiful young women reaffirmed something I’ve always felt; love is too pure to be confined by any boundary.
Dani & Kira's Wedding (06/20/2015)
By Minister Oswald Angulo
Invocation: Good evening everybody. Welcome to New York City. We're gathered here today at beautiful Central Park to witness Dani and Kira profess their love and devotion to one another in blessed matrimony. I am Minister Ozzy and I have the tremendous honor and pleasure of officiating today's ceremony. Before today's ceremony, I had an opportunity to speak with Dani. I asked her to share with me some insight into her journey of love with Kira so that I could gain better perspective for today's ceremony. She revealed that the love she shares with Kira is one of great peace and growth. Dani described her love with Kira as, [quote] "becoming the better versions of ourselves." Dani explained how each of them was already a strong and grounded person in her own right when they fell in love. What a blessing that is in and of itself, especially in these time, to be secure and in love within one's own skin and finding a love partner with the same confidence and self assuredness. Dani put it best when she told me, "we were two whole people who came together versus two broken people." I find it hard to think of a greater and stronger foundation for ever-lasting love and unity than that. In just a short moment, we will all bear witness to the official "first day" of that long lasting love and unity. Before that, I would like to share an old Apache blessing that came to mind after learning of Dani & Kira's love:
Now you will feel no rain,
for each of you will be shelter for the other.
Now you will feel no cold,
for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there will be no loneliness,
for each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two persons,
but there is only one life before you.
May beauty surround you both in the
journey ahead and through all the years,
May happiness be your companion and
your days together be good and long upon the earth.Treat yourselves and each other with respect, and
remind yourselves often of what brought you together.
Give the highest priority to the tenderness,
gentleness and kindness that your connection deserves.
When frustration, difficulties and fear assail your relationship,
as they threaten all relationships at one time or another,
remember to focus on what is right between you,
not only the part which seems wrong.
In this way, you can ride out the storms when
clouds hide the face of the sun in your lives - remembering that
even if you lose sight of it for a moment, the sun is still there.
And if each of you takes responsibility for the quality of your
life together, it will be marked by abundance and delight."
"Now it is time for the Exchanging of Vows and Dani has vows for Kira that she will now share:
And now Kira will share her vows for Dani
Do you, Dani, solemnly declare that you take Kira to be your lawfully wedded spouse? Do you promise to love, honor, cherish and keep her for as long as you both shall live?As a symbol of your promise to Kira, please place the ring on her finger.
Do you, Kira, solemnly declare that you take Dani to be your lawfully wedded spouse? Do you promise to love, honor, cherish and keep her for as long as you both shall live?As a symbol of your promise to Dani, please place the ring on her finger.
Inasmuch as you have consented to be united in the bonds of blessed matrimony, and you have exchanged your wedding vows before all those present today, therefore, by the powers vested in me by the great State of New York, I now pronounce you Mrs. and Mrs. __________. You may now seal your vows with a kiss.
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