The Minister is holding a wedding ring in each of his hands and is going through the "these rings symbolize eternity" spiel. I can't remember the exact wording. He does look more like Captain Hypno than a Minister though.
The Traditional Scientology Wedding Ceremony (pages 70-79) Attend! Uncover and be still You present here In this A holy place. For we today Shall marry here This groom and bride And wish them well. Rejoice! You line of struggling life From eons gone to now For here again your track is sped And winged into A future fate By this A union of a man and bride Whose child shall pace A further span Of Destiny And Life. Forbear! For here shall be No calumny Or whispered word against You, man Or woman thou For this the union you contract Does wipe away All sorrow Of the past. Speak out then now If any man Or girl would speak And say here a Reason why These two should not Be wed. And silence heard Does speak out plain There's none. So now My (bride's name), Stand steady here And say Do you today intend For him beside you there To be to him a wife? (Answer) And do you ken That (groom's name) here Shall have you For his own? Do you? (Answer) And do you understand as well That by the customs of our race You pledge to him and only him Your kiss and your caress? Do you? (Answer) Well then Know that Life is stark And often somewhat grim And tiredness And fret and pain And sickness do beget A state of mind where spring romance Is far away and dead And yet for valor and for strength You must abide and Create still His health, his purpose and repose. Do you? (Answer) And do you take His fortune At its prime and ebb And seek With him best fortune For us all? Do you? (Answer) Good then, (bride's name), I'm sure you will And surer yet you'll fare Full well and staunchly As a wife. Now, (groom's name), listen well. The tides of fortune and of life Are sometimes fair or grim And in this life the young man seeks For victory afar And often scants the fireside And turns away from home's sweet face And thinks His loved ones cannot fare At all Beside his side. And thinking thus they go. You know this. Then be cautioned so And take thy own Even though they sleep Beneath foul straw And eat Thin bread And walk on pavement less than kind And keep thy wife and they who come Beside thy side. Keep them, (groom's name), by your side In rain or sleet Or summer sun And comfort them And give them care And share with them thy life. For times are changed And woman's place Is not a hearth or home But striding out to victory Beside her husband's side. This (groom's name), is a modern world And man Has changed. But, (groom's name), let's think on it well For if stands aught in you Of doubt That you can take and keep And love her well this wife Then stay your hand And we shall say No more, For fatal and of full tight bind Are these the words I next will speak. Shall I go on? (Answer) And you, (bride's name), listen well And you, (groom's name), answer swift. Prepared? (Answer) (Groom's name), do you pledge to take This woman for your lawful wife? (Answer) Do you, (groom's name), Make promise here Before us all To keep her well or ill? Do you? (Answer) And when she's older Do you then Keep her still? Do you? (Answer) Now, (groom's name), girls need clothes And food and Tender happiness and frills A pan, a comb, perhaps a cat All caprice if you will But still They need them. Do you then Provide? Do you? (Answer) Hear well, sweet (bride's name), For promise binds Young men are free and may forget Remind him then That you may have Necessities and follies, too. Now, (groom's name)! Attend! Do you, best man, possess a ring? (Groom's name), take it please And, (bride's name), Your hand will he enclasp. We have it now. Repeat! "I, (bride's name)," (Answer) "Do hereby take" (Answer) "You, (groom's name)," (Answer) "For my husband." (Answer) And, (groom's name), Do now repeat "I, (groom's name)," (Answer) "Do hereby take" (Answer) "You, (bride's name)," (Answer) "For my lawful wedded wife." (Answer) Put on the ring! Rejoice all here For we have wed Our (groom's name) and our (bride's name) And wish them well. All here repeat! Are they by witness Man and wife? (Answer) Rejoice and go your many ways Now, (groom's name), kiss your bride And hug her well And all of you Come toast and drink Their health That it may last Until that day when death Itself, The severer of all ties Shall end The thing which we have done Today. Dismiss. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/TomCruise/wedding-ceremony.html
We had a wedding in Nashville. My how our little Julie has grown up! At least her husband isn't older than her father. Kinda creepy up there^
