Asking that you be no other than yourself…
I, ______, take you, _______, as my friend and love, beside me and apart from me, in laughter and in tears, in conflict and tranquility, asking that you be no other than yourself, loving what I know of you, trusting what I do not know yet, in all the ways that life may find us.
Then you place the ring on her/his finger and say:______, I give you this ring as a symbol of my vow, and with all that I am, and all that I have, I honor you, in the name of God.