We are here, in this beautiful place, to celebrate this beautiful occasion, as Bride and Groom vow to spend the rest of their lives together.  The reading of the poem, Thoughts In a Garden, is very appropriate today, not only because we are in a thriving garden, but because of how it compares gardens to relationships and the differents phases we go through. Son and Daughter, you are 1 ½ years into your marriage, starting your garden, showing us the hope we all have for lasting love and beauty.  Mother and Father, after 58 years of marriage you show us that lasting love in deep, rich evergreens.  Bride and Groom, you show us the changing seasons and the necessary work.  Pruning encourages growth and  after the dormancy of winter, there is always a vibrant spring, in all its glory.  


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What  I want to draw your attention to now is this plant.  Bride and Groom and their  mother’s now of are going to add soil to the pot.   There is great meaning behind this.  Their mothers are where it all began.  They gave birth to them and raised them.  Essentially, their mothers loved them and taught them how to love and helped to give them the foundation, or the fertile soil,  of who they are today. All of you here, family and friends, also helped to make them who they are. Now, through marriage, we are joining your two families together and all that has gone before now blends here towards your becoming.  This tree is a symbol of their new life, and how they will grow for years to come based in their fertile foundation of love.

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Bride and Groom, with their children, will be planting this tree at their home, signifying the joining of their 6 lives together, the commitment that they made to one another, and the strength and nurturing each will provide to the relationship as they grow and mature together. 

(Each adds a cup of the potting soil to the potted tree)

As we contemplate on how a tree changes and adapts through all seasons in order to continue to thrive and grow, we can see how this applies to a marriage as well. Bride and Groom, a faithful marriage endures the change of seasons, responding to the trials in darkness with trust and assurance in knowing that a new season is coming, where growth and fruitfulness rejoice in the light.


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Bride and Groom, your home is a special place, a place where you have brought beautiful flowers and plants here to establish them, to nurture and care for them, that they may forever surround you with the beauty we now see. And into this place where we stand, you have brought something else beautiful -- the relationship that is becoming your marriage. Here you are declaring it and pledging it, promising to establish and nurture it. We are aware of the special beauty between the two of you, just as we are aware of the special beauty of this place. We are with you now in this appropriate place to celebrate your relationship as it is and as it is yet to be, and in doing so, we ask only that you remember how your life together will have the same seasons and needs as your gardens. There will be growth like spring and loss like fall; there will be giving as the blossoming flower, and rest as the seed beneath the snow. All the seasons will be yours but remember, too, that gardens are not must happenings. The more wonderful the garden, the more skilled the gardener. So you will have to care deeply for your new tree and for the life that is now yours together. Nurture it. Appreciate your differences and cultivate them. You will have to take care of yourself, if for no other reason than out of love for the other. And you will need the support of family and friends to reach full growth. As you caringly chose to plant this tree as a declaration of your marriage, so remember it's lessons for your life together through the seasons that are yours to share. And may those seasons bring you and yours joy and happiness.

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The Bride and Groom  will now plant a tree signifying the joining of their
lives together, the commitment that they have made to one another, and
the strength and nurturing each will provide to the relationship as
they grow and mature together.

(Mothers or the couple will pour soil into the pot. This can be from their parents back yards to symbolize where they came from.  Another option is to water the tree or plant. It's cleaner.)

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