Today is a celebration. A celebration of love, of commitment, of friendship, of family, and of a vow made between two people to share their lives together. We have thousands of important moments in our lives, but this one, marriage, is regarded as one so vital, that we choose to share it with others. However, you don't have to have a ceremony to have a marriage. So why do we do it? Why choose to share this moment? Because despite all of our differences, love is what we all share. It's the great unifier — our one universal truth. That no matter who we are, where we've come from, what we believe, we know this one thing: love is what we're doing right. That's why the two of you are standing here. That's why the rest of us have gathered to witness Max and Shayna standing here - side by side, together. We have all loved in our lifetimes, and in this moment, we're reminded that the ability to love is the very best part of our humanity. So today, you have collected some special words about love, that will now be read by some of the people who love you the most.

Marriage is not a house or even a tent it is before that, and colder: the edge of the forest, the edge of the desert the unpainted stairs at the back where we squat outside, eating popcorn the edge of the receding glacier where painfully and with wonder at having survived even this far we are learning to make fire

Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying. In essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

I wanna be your vacuum cleaner breathing in your dust I wanna be your Ford Cortina I will never rust If you like your coffee hot let me be your coffee pot You call the shots I wanna be yours I wanna be your raincoat for those frequent rainy days I wanna be your dreamboat when you want to sail away Let me be your teddy bear take me with you anywhere I don’t care I wanna be yours I wanna be your electric meter I will not run out I wanna be the electric heater you’ll get cold without I wanna be your setting lotion hold your hair in deep devotion Deep as the deep Atlantic ocean that’s how deep is my devotion

There are many ways to say 'I love you' There are many ways to say 'I care about you' You'll find many ways to say 'I love you' You'll find many ways to understand what love is... As you grow, I trust that you are finding many more ways to show and tell people that you love them. Those are the most important things that you’ll ever learn to do. Because loving people and animals and the world we all live in is the most important part of being alive.

This isn’t sometimes, this is always this isn’t maybe, this is always This is love, the real beginning of forever...

The arch is nothing else than a force originated by two weaknesses, for the arch in buildings is composed of two segments of a circle, each of which being very weak in itself tends to fall; but as each opposes this tendency in the other, the two weaknesses combine to form one strength.

You fell in love by chance, but you're here today because you're making a choice. You are choosing each other. You're about to make promises to each other that you intend to keep. You're making a vow to take care of each other, to stand up for one another, and find happiness in the other. Will you, Max, keep Shayna as your person — to laugh with, to see the world with, to support through life's most joyful and miserable moments, be proud of, grow old with, and find new reasons to fall in love with every day? I will. Will you, Shayna, keep Max as your person — to laugh with, to see the world with, to support through life's most joyful and miserable moments, be proud of, grow old with, and find new reasons to fall in love with every day? I will. Will you, Max & Shayna, be each other's partners from this day forward? Will you bring out the best in one another, share your lives together, and love each other absolutely — for the rest of this lifetime and for whatever may come next? We will.