Processional · La entrada 2–3 min
[Guests are seated. The wedding party enters, then the couple. Everyone remains standing until the officiant invites them to sit.]
Bracketed lines are directions to perform, not lines to read aloud.
[Guests are seated. The wedding party enters, then the couple. Everyone remains standing until the officiant invites them to sit.]
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. Please, be seated.
Buenas tardes a todos, y bienvenidos. Por favor, tomen asiento.
We are here today for the happiest of reasons: to celebrate the marriage of [Partner A] and [Partner B]. There are two families in this room, and from today they are one. On behalf of the couple, thank you all for being here.
Estamos aquí hoy por la más feliz de las razones: celebrar el matrimonio de [Pareja A] y [Pareja B]. En esta sala hay dos familias, y a partir de hoy son una sola. En nombre de la pareja, gracias a todos por acompañarlos.
Everything said today will be said twice, in English and in Spanish, so that nobody here has to guess at what is happening. Both languages carry the same promises. Neither one is a translation of the other. They are both the ceremony.
Todo lo que se diga hoy se dirá dos veces, en inglés y en español, para que nadie tenga que adivinar lo que está pasando. Los dos idiomas llevan las mismas promesas. Ninguno es la traducción del otro: los dos son la ceremonia.
[Partner A] and [Partner B], the promise you are about to make is a large one, and you are making it with your eyes open. Marriage is not the end of a love story. It is the decision to keep writing one together, on the ordinary days as much as the extraordinary ones.
[Pareja A] y [Pareja B], la promesa que están a punto de hacer es grande, y la hacen con los ojos abiertos. El matrimonio no es el final de una historia de amor: es la decisión de seguir escribiéndola [juntos / juntas], en los días comunes tanto como en los extraordinarios.
[Tell one short, true story from your conversation with the couple here.] That is what you are protecting today, and it is worth protecting.
[Cuente aquí una historia breve y verdadera de su conversación con la pareja.] Eso es lo que están protegiendo hoy, y vale la pena protegerlo.
[If there is a reading, the officiant invites the reader forward now. Where two readers give the same piece in the two languages, they come up together and read one after the other.]
Before [Partner A] and [Partner B] make their promises, [Reader’s name] will share a few words they chose for today.
Antes de que [Pareja A] y [Pareja B] hagan sus promesas, [nombre del lector] compartirá unas palabras que ellos eligieron para hoy.
[The reading is given. The officiant thanks the reader by name in both languages.]
[Partner A], do you take [Partner B] to be your [wife / husband / partner], to love and to respect, to stand beside them in health and in sickness, in good times and in hard ones, for as long as you both shall live?
[Pareja A], ¿aceptas a [Pareja B] como tu [esposa / esposo / compañera de vida / compañero de vida], para amar y respetar a esta persona, para acompañarla en la salud y en la enfermedad, en la alegría y en la dificultad, todos los días de tu vida?
[Partner A]: I do. · Sí, acepto.
And [Partner B], do you take [Partner A] to be your [wife / husband / partner], to love and to respect, to stand beside them in health and in sickness, in good times and in hard ones, for as long as you both shall live?
Y [Pareja B], ¿aceptas a [Pareja A] como tu [esposa / esposo / compañera de vida / compañero de vida], para amar y respetar a esta persona, para acompañarla en la salud y en la enfermedad, en la alegría y en la dificultad, todos los días de tu vida?
[Partner B]: I do. · Sí, acepto.
Please face each other and join hands. [Partner A], repeat after me.
Por favor, colóquense frente a frente y tómense de las manos. [Pareja A], repite después de mí.
I, [Partner A], take you, [Partner B], to be my [wife / husband / partner]. I promise to stand beside you and never in your way, to tell you the truth gently and to listen for yours, and to build this life with you day by day. From today, whatever comes, I am yours.
Yo, [Pareja A], te tomo a ti, [Pareja B], como mi [esposa / esposo / compañera de vida / compañero de vida]. Prometo estar siempre a tu lado y nunca en tu camino, decirte la verdad con ternura y escuchar la tuya, y construir esta vida contigo día a día. Desde hoy, pase lo que pase, soy [tuya / tuyo].
And [Partner B], repeat after me.
Y [Pareja B], repite después de mí.
I, [Partner B], take you, [Partner A], to be my [wife / husband / partner]. I promise to stand beside you and never in your way, to tell you the truth gently and to listen for yours, and to build this life with you day by day. From today, whatever comes, I am yours.
Yo, [Pareja B], te tomo a ti, [Pareja A], como mi [esposa / esposo / compañera de vida / compañero de vida]. Prometo estar siempre a tu lado y nunca en tu camino, decirte la verdad con ternura y escuchar la tuya, y construir esta vida contigo día a día. Desde hoy, pase lo que pase, soy [tuya / tuyo].
May we have the rings, please.
Los anillos, por favor.
A ring is a small, plain circle, and we give it an enormous meaning: it has no beginning and no end, and it is worn where everyone can see it. Every time you notice it on your hand, let it bring you back to what you promised here.
Un anillo es un círculo pequeño y sencillo, y le damos un significado enorme: no tiene principio ni fin, y se lleva donde todo el mundo puede verlo. Cada vez que lo notes en tu mano, que te recuerde lo que prometiste aquí.
[Partner A], place the ring on [Partner B]’s finger and repeat after me.
[Pareja A], coloca el anillo en el dedo de [Pareja B] y repite después de mí.
I give you this ring as a sign of my love and of everything I promised today. Wear it, and know that I am yours.
Te doy este anillo como señal de mi amor y de todo lo que prometí hoy. Llévalo contigo, y recuerda que soy [tuya / tuyo].
And [Partner B], the same.
Y [Pareja B], lo mismo.
[Partner A] and [Partner B], you have declared your intention in front of everyone here, made your promises to each other, and sealed them with rings. And so, by the power vested in me by the [state / jurisdiction], it is my great joy to declare that you are married.
[Pareja A] y [Pareja B], han declarado su intención delante de todos, se han hecho sus promesas y las han sellado con anillos. Por lo tanto, por la autoridad que me confiere el estado de [estado / jurisdicción], tengo la enorme alegría de [declararlos unidos / declararlas unidas] en matrimonio.
You may share your first kiss as a married couple.
Pueden darse el primer beso como pareja casada.
[The couple kisses. The officiant waits for the applause to crest.]
Friends and family, it is my privilege to introduce, for the very first time, [the newly married couple, announced as they wish].
Familia y amigos, tengo el honor de presentarles, por primera vez, a [la pareja recién casada, presentada como prefieran].
[The couple leads the recessional back up the aisle, the wedding party behind them, the officiant last.]