Clark & Eliza - East Kilbride
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♫ One Day Like This by Elbow
Ladies and Gentleman would you please stand to receive the Bride
♫ Wedding March
Please be seated
Well good afternoon to everyone
thank you so much it's a pleasure to be here together
to celebrate the marriage of Clark and Eliza
It's a wonderful day marking the beginning of a whole new life together for them
So we are here today as family and friends
to join them in their happiness
To witness the solemn promises and to invite God to come and to bless them
this day and on into the future in their lives together
We are going to worship God and ask his blessing as we sing
"Be Still for the Presence of the Lord the Holy One is Here"
Let's worship God together.....
♫ Be still for the presence of the Lord, the Holy One is here
♫ Come bow before him now
With reverence and fear
♫ In him no sin is found
We stand on holy ground
♫ Be still for the presence of the Lord
The Holy One is here
♫ Be still for the glory of the Lord
Is shining all around
♫ He burns with holy fire
With splendor He is crowned
♫ How awesome is the sight
Our radiant King of light
♫ Be still for the glory of the Lord
Is shining all around
♫ Be still for the power of the Lord
Is moving in this place
♫ He comes to cleanse and heal
To minister His grace
♫ No work too hard for Him
In faith receive from Him
♫ Be still for the power of the Lord
Is moving in this place
Please be seated
Love is patient love is kind
Love is not jealous it does not boast it is not proud
Love is not rude, love is not selfish, and love does not become angry easily
Love does not remember wrongs done against it
Love is not happy with evil, but love is always happy with the truth
Love patiently accepts all things
Love always trusts, always hopes and always continues strong
Love never ends
It's interesting Clarke and Eliza....I will just comment to Clarke and Eliza but you can all listen in....
It's interesting that God is telling us about love in the Bible
and in that reading he doesn't use the word for romantic love
you know the kind of love that Clark and Eliza have for one another.
This passage in the Bible was written in Greek, and the Greek language has four words for love
and it's got a word for romantic love, but that's not the word God uses here in first Corinthians 13
He uses a word for love that means a love that nothing can destroy,
and this is the love that we are to have in marriage alongside romantic love.
To have this special kind of love.
Now I know that Clark and Eliza will never fall out
because they are both such wonderful people
But for the rest of us who are not as wonderful as you Clark or Eliza sometimes we do fall out.
There was a married couple who really fell out and had a terrible argument,
and the wife got so mad that she went and got out a suitcase,
and she opened the wardrobe door and started packing her clothes into the suitcase.
So her husband after a few minutes said "What are you doing?"
And she said "I am leaving!"
So at that he turned and went to the cupboard got his suitcase and started packing his clothes in.
And his wife turned to him and said "So what are you doing now?"
And he said "If you are leaving I am going with you!"
Now that's the kind of love that we need to have in marriage
and that's the kind of love that God said Clark and Eliza you need to have for one another.
A love that never ends kind of love,
and it doesn't matter what happens you keep on loving one another.
First of all Clark
Do you Clark Steven now take Eliza Star Smith,
to be your wife.
Do you promise in the presence of God and before these witnesses
to be a loving, faithful and loyal husband to her
until God shall separate you by death.
I do
and now Eliza
Do you Eliza Star Smith
Now take Clark Steven to be your husband
and do you promise in the presence of God and before these witnesses
to be a loving, faithful and loyal wife to him
until God shall separate you by death.
I do
These Rings Clark and Eliza are a symbol of your love and of your marriage,
they are made of precious metal because your love for one another and your marriage is far more precious than gold.
And of course a ring is a circle and a circle has no end
as your marriage has no end except in death.
So Clark first of all could you take the ring and place it on Eliza's finger.
And now Eliza if you could take the ring and place it on Clark's finger
She is really making sure that that ring is on!
It is not coming off.
Clark and Eliza since you have now pledged yourselves to one another
in the holy covenant of marriage and have made your declarations before God and these witnesses
I now pronounce you to be.....'husband and wife'.
In the Name of the Father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit
Those whom God has joined together let no man separate.
Let's ask God's blessing upon you
The Lord bless you and keep you
The Lord make his face to shine upon you
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you,
and give you peace now and forever more....amen.
Clark.........
you may now kiss the bride!
(Cheers and applause)
Wonderful Mr and Mrs Steven
A toast for Clark and my Mum
And I'd like to say something else
I've got a brother who should have been here today but he can't be
But I'd like to have a wee toast for my brother - J
and other family members that couldn't make it as well
Thank you very much everybody
Enjoy yourselves and have a nice night
On behalf of my wife and I
(Cheers and applause )
As Alec had said her son John would have loved to have been here today,
but he wasn't able to because he passed away last year,
so he is with God and if we could all remember him again today.
Also I would like to thank everybody for coming today
thank you for all the gifts that you have given us
and we are really really happy that you have come to celebrate our special day today
so I hope you all enjoy yourselves
have a lovely time tonight and thank you all once again.
(Applause)
right er where was I
I was alright up until the BBC wired me up
then my knees started knocking hell out of each other, so bear with me.
err....speech where is it
Right you are hereby summoned to appear at...
oh that's the wrong one!!
(Laughter )
Ladies and gentlemen good afternoon, for those of you who don't know me I am Frank
Clark's best man and his cousin
I don't mind telling you how nervous I am about doing this speech
even more nervous now in front of the BBC
so I prepared a few lines a earlier
and now that they have kicked in I feel a bit better now.
(Laughter) ....only kidding!
I am married myself and I am sure there are hundreds of happily married couples out there....
I didn't hear any cheers there!
My thoughts on marriage, I was trying to write a decent speech
keep it clean and all that carry on
and I was on the internet and got lost....totally lost
but I found some interesting pictures right enough.
(Laughter)
But I ended up on marriage quotes
so I'm going to do a few quotes on marriage
as a few tips for Clark.
Hope I'm not going far too fast for Willy,
I will let Willy catch up.
I am sure you can all relate to some of these quotes
There is an old Apache saying
The Apache Indians say a man is all complete until he is married
Then he is really finished they Indians knew their stuff didn't they
Arguments and Marriage
Me and my wife Pauline don't argue that much
when we do it is a ding dong
She says to me one day when we were arguing I was a fool when I married you
and I said I know I was in love at the time and did not notice
Marriage is a process of finding out
What kind of man your wife would have preferred
My son Kevin he got married two years ago and he asked me
How much does it cost to get married?
and I said I will tell you once I have finished paying for our wedding!
Words of wisdom
Right wedding presents
The best wedding present we got was a waterbed
Loved it but we had to give it away because we were drifting apart
Okay, kidding aside
What a lovely ceremony that was everybody agree
Father Jim
I actually had a lump in my throat when they made the vows
Jim was brilliant let's have a big hand for Jim again
I had a bit of a dilemma I asked him earlier on is it Reverend or father or minister
and he said call me what you want so.......Jim.
Going to say now about the bridesmaids
Sara and Deborah how lovely they looked today beautiful
Done their job well
They were over shone only by Eliza who looks absolutely stunning don't you all agree
(Cheers)
And Clarke himself he just looks stunned
The ushers they done a great job well done
I wrote this in pretence and he is still sober and I said
"Cousin Scott the groomsmen for managing to stay sober during the meal, but we've not had the meal yet!"
Willy for interpretation.....a great guy
I was deeply honoured when Clark and Eliza asked me to be their best man
When We Were younger Clark and myself, we ran about and we used to go to Nana and Papa Shiels in Yoker
For Sunday dinner and we used to play out the back wrestling
Over the years we've drifted apart but at the end of the day your cousins are really your first best friends
And I was really deeply honoured to be Clark's best man
It's a shame we don't see each other for long times,
Because we have family scattered all over the place
we've got folks in London, folks from Manchester are up today and I think folk from Newcastle come up today as well.
We have folks from Ireland and folks from Barlinnie
(Laughter)
I keep looking at this there is a photo of a large whiskey that I am going to drink at the bar after I've finished
I've got a few cards to read out here
So if you bear with me
Clark and Eliza thank you both so much for inviting me today
I have so many memories of you and I and Dan when we were taken to Ireland every year for our holidays
such good and happy times I wish you and Eliza a very long and happy marriage god bless you both cousin Pat - love
(Applause )
To Clark and Eliza congratulations on your wedding day
sorry I couldn't be there I hope you have a lovely day
and best wishes for the future love Aunty Madelene
To Clark and Eliza lots of love and sorry I couldn't be there Uncle Vinnie from Manchester
To Eliza and Clark in the coming days of your marriage and beyond
I hope you both find love and comfort in each other to your hearts content with love from Linda and Richard
Many thanks for your invitation as much as we would love to share your day
Mum is a bit too frail now to travel and I would need to be here to help care for her
wishing you a lovely day and all the happiness cousin Deborah Reed
Best wishes for a very happy future together from Jim and Gladys from the Monty
To Eliza and Clark sending wishes for a beautiful day filled with happiness from Robert and Valerie
See everything that can be thrown please take it out of Clark's reach for this next card
because somebody has got a sense of humour
On the front it says - to Rangers number one fan
A picture of a guy with numerous Rangers scarves on and a Union Jack
and he has even got Rangers socks on and it says Clark off to the game
To Clark and Eliza have a fantastic wedding day all the best from Joseph and all at the Laurieston bar
Laughter and happily ever after as Clark and Eliza start their new life as husband and wife
If you could be all upstanding
And my toast
To Mr and Mrs Clark Stevens
(Cheers and applause)
Right Pauline....large whiskey