Post # 1
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Honey bee
I googled and came across this on a Knot forum. It made me cry and I will be stealing it for our ring exchange.
Officiant says:
This is the point in the ceremony where we usually talk about the wedding bands being a perfect circle, with no beginning and no end. But we all know that these rings do have a beginning. Rock is dug up from the earth. Metal is liquefied in a furnace at a thousand degrees, then molded, cooled, and painstakingly polished. Something beautiful is made from raw elements. Love is like that. It’s hot, dirty work. It comes from humble beginnings, made by imperfect beings. It’s the process of making something beautiful where there was once nothing at all.
Response:
This ring is my promise to accept your imperfections and recognize your beauty”
Is this not the most beautiful thing you have ever read?! Share your alternative wording for ring exchanges or vows!
Post # 3
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Honey bee
Bump! There’s gotta be some awesome alternatives for the ring exchange1
Post # 4
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Busy Beekeeper
- Wedding: October 2011 - Bed & Breakfast
Well that is almost word for word what I wrote in my ceremony, so… uhhh… yeah, I like it. 🙂
Post # 5
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Buzzing Beekeeper
- Wedding: August 2013 - Rocky Mountains USA
@s2bmrscook: Aw I love that! I’m just sitting down to write our wedding ceremony right now (yay / ack!). Coincidence?!? I think not. Thanks for posting 🙂
Post # 6
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Honey bee
@lovekiss: I found it on a knot.com forum that showed up on google! Maybe it’s yours? If it is, I hope you don’t mind if I use it! 🙂
@lolot: That’s what I’ve been doing this evening too!
Post # 7
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Busy Beekeeper
- Wedding: October 2011 - Bed & Breakfast
@s2bmrscook: I pulled together bits and pieces from other people’s ceremonies, so feel free to do the same. 🙂 I guess someone else could have very well been using the same inspiration as I did and come to a very similar result. But I used that piece to segway into a community affirmation of support, then a ring warming ceremony, and then the ring exchange. Each person can use the same inspiration and get a totally different result.