The years of life are as a cup of wine poured out for you to drink.
This Loving Cup contains within it a wine with certain properties that are
sweet and symbolic of happiness, joy, hope, peace, love and delight. This same
wine also holds some bitter properties that are symbolic of disappointment, sorrow,
grief, despair, and life's trials and tribulations.

Groom and Bride, together the sweet and the bitter represent "Love's Journey" and
all of the experiences that are a natural part of it. For you both to share the wine
from this Loving Cup, so may you share all things from this day
on with love and understanding.

(The Officiant - Pours wine into the Loving Cup and holds it up.)
This cup of wine is symbolic of the cup of life. As you share the wine from the
Loving Cup, you undertake to share all that the future may bring.  All the sweetness
life's cup may hold for you both, will be the sweeter because
you drink it together. Whatever drops of bitterness it may contain
will be less bitter because you share them.

(The Officiant - Holds up the Loving Cup and says the following.)
This Loving Cup is symbolic of the pledges you have made to one another to share
together the fullness of life. As you drink from this cup, you acknowledge to one
another that your lives, separate until this moment,
have now become one.

Groom, Bride, drink deeply from the Loving Cup with an open heart and
willing spirit, invite the full range of challenges and experiences into your being.
Drink now, and may the cup of your lives be sweet and full to running over.
Groom, Bride, now drink to the love you've shared in the past.
Groom, Bride, drink to your love in the present, on this your
wedding day. And drink to your love in the future
and forever more!

Groom, Bride, as you have shared the wine from this Loving Cup,
so may you share your lives. May you explore the mysteries of the Loving Cup and
share in the reflection of love in one another's soul. From love all things proceed
and unto love they must return. May you find life's joys heightened,
it's bitterness sweetened, and all of life enriched by your love
for each other and of family and friends.
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Rev. Barbara Concoby / Officiant Wedding Services
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Rev. Barbara Concoby / Officiant Wedding Services