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Joseph "Zip" Duda
Bondsville, MA
413.283.4500

Marriage Fee: $75.00
(Anywhere in Massachusetts)

"JP-Joe" uses the following
Standard Marriage Ceremony
(which can be adapted for same-sex marriage)

JOESEPH:  We are gathered here to join this man and this woman in matrimony, which an honorable estate and therefore is not to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly, but discreetly and soberly.  Into this estate these two persons present come now to be joined.

(GROOM)  ______________ will you have this woman to be your wedded wife, to live together in the estate of matrimony?  Will you love her, comfort her, honor and keep her in sickness and health; and, forsaking all others, keep yourself only for her, so long as you both shall live?

GROOM:   I will

(BRIDE)  ______________ will you have this man to be your wedded husband, to live together in the estate of matrimony?  Will you love him, comfort him, honor and keep him in sickness and health; and, forsaking all others, keep yourself only for him, so long as you both shall live?

BRIDE:   I will

JOSEPH:  Please take the bride’s right hand and repeat after me:

I (GROOM) _______________ take you (BRIDE) _________________

to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and cherish, till death do us part.

I (BRIDE) _______________ take you (GROOM) _________________

to be my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and cherish, till death do us part.

JOSEPH:  (GROOM) _______________, place the ring on the bride’s finger and repeat the following:  With this ring I wed you and, to you, I will be true, so long as we both shall live.

JOSEPH:  (BRIDE) _______________, place the ring on the groom’s finger and repeat the following:  With this ring I wed you and, to you, I will be true, so long as we both shall live.

JOSEPH:  By the power vested upon by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I pronounce you married.