Please see the script below, with the words in italics that the couple will repeat after the registrar:
‘Good morning/afternoon everyone. On behalf of my colleague (Registrar 2’s name), and myself (Registrar 1’s name), I would like to welcome you to (Ceremony venue) on the occasion of the conversion ceremony between (Partner 1’s name) and (Partner 2’s name).
Today, (Partner 1’s name) and (Partner 2’s name) will celebrate their commitment to each other as they change their relationship to a marriage.
Today (Partner 1’s name) and (Partner 2’s name) are saying ‘thank you’ for the past (number of) years for their time together. They are reaffirming that their relationship means more to them than ever and they will grow even closer as they look forward to the future together.
(Partner 1’s name) and (Partner 2’s name) marriage is a promise made in the hearts of two people who love each other. Within the circle of its love, it encompasses all of life’s most important relationships.
May you pledge to each other to continue to be loving friends and partners, to talk and to listen, to trust and appreciate each other, and to respect and cherish each other’s uniqueness.
May you also pledge to support, comfort, and strengthen each other through life’s joys and sorrows.
[1ST READING (OPTIONAL)]
We have now come to the solemn part of the ceremony where you are about to make your vows to each other.
(Partner 1’s name) and (Partner 2’s name) you have gathered about you those whom you love, to celebrate with you at this special time.
I ask you now in the presence of this company:
(Partner 1’s name), will you continue to love, honour, and cherish (Partner 2’s name), in good times and in bad, and do you promise to stay true to him/her as long as you both shall live?
(Partner 1’s name): I do.
(Partner 2’s name), will you continue to love, honour, and cherish (Partner 1’s name), in good times and in bad, and do you promise to stay true to him/her as long as you both shall live?
(Partner 2’s name): I do.
(Partner 1’s name), please repeat after me
I (Partner 1’s name), renew my vows to you, (Partner 2’s name), in the presence of this company of family and friends. I will love and support you with compassion, respect you as an individual person, cherish you no matter what happens, and enjoy your love always.
(Partner 2’s name), please repeat after me
I (Partner 2’s name), renew my vows to you, (Partner 1’s name), in the presence of this company of family and friends. I will love and support you with compassion, respect you as an individual person, cherish you no matter what happens, and enjoy your love always.
[2ND READING (OPTIONAL)]
[PERSONAL VOWS (OPTIONAL)]
[RINGS (OPTIONAL)]
These rings are an unbroken circle, it has no beginning and no end. It symbolises un-ending and everlasting love and is an outward sign of the lifelong promise you have made to each other.
Would the ring bearer/best man please come forward with the rings?
(Partner 1’s name): please repeat after me.
I give you this ring, as a token of our new marriage, and a symbol of our love.
(Partner 2’s name): please repeat after me.
I give you this ring, as a token of our new marriage, and a symbol of our love.
[GUEST’S VOWS (OPTIONAL)
Will all the guests please stand.
I am now going to ask all of you, assembled here today, to lend your verbal support to this couple, and I am expecting the response: ‘We will’.
Will you, the family and friends, fully endorse, have faith in and give your lasting support to (Partner 1’s name) and (Partner 2’s name) who stand before us here today?
(We will)
[3RD READING (OPTIONAL)]
And now as we come to the closing of the ceremony,
Cherish your love for each other, enhance the potential you have as individuals and as a couple and look to your future with a commitment that grows deeper and stronger as the years pass. The words of Robert Browning are remembered: ‘Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.’
It now gives me great pleasure to declare that you are now husband/wife and husband/wife!
You may now kiss each other!
Please offer your congratulations to (Partner 1’s name) and (Partner 2’s name).’
[SIGNING OF THE SCHEDULE]
[COUPLE DECLARED AS THEY HAVE ASKED TO BE DECLARED ON THE PRE-CEREMONY ORGANISER]