00:00Matthew and Laura. I'm Wilson Leigh and I'm a civil celebrant appointed by the
00:06Registrar-General for Scotland as a person authorised to solemnise civil
00:11marriages in accordance with the provisions of the Marriage Scotland Act
00:15of 1977. Before I proceed with this civil marriage ceremony you should both
00:22identify yourselves by answering the following questions. Are you Matthew
00:27Simon Allerton? Yes. And are you Laura Elizabeth Gander? Yes. We're now gathered here in order that I may
00:35solemnise your marriage in the presence of your two witnesses and in accordance
00:40with the Law of Scotland and I confirm the requirements of that Law of Preliminary
00:44to your marriage have been satisfied. Now before you Matthew and you Laura are joined in marriage
00:52it's my duty to remind you of the binding character of the vows that you're about to make.
00:57Marriage according to the law of this country is a union of two people voluntary entered into for
01:03life and to the exclusion of all others. I now require that you make a declaration accepting
01:10each other as husband and wife and that while you make this declaration we normally ask that
01:16everybody else is upstanding but you might have noticed they already are.
01:20Now Matthew will you take Laura's right hand in your right hand please and please repeat after me
01:28I Matthew Simon Allerton I Matthew Simon Allerton solemnly and sincerely declare solemnly and sincerely
01:36declare that I know that I know of no legal impediment
01:41Sorry say again of no legal impediment of no legal impediment of no legal impediment
01:46to my marrying Laura Elizabeth Gander to my marrying Laura Elizabeth Gander
01:51And now, Laura, it's your turn. I, Laura Elizabeth Gander, solemnly and sincerely declare, that I know, of no legal
02:04impediment, to my marrying Matthew Simon Ollerton.
02:16Now, when we make our vows to each other here in Gretna, we make them to one another, we don't
02:22make them to everyone else.
02:23So what I'm going to suggest that you do, if you put your flowers just in the back of the
02:27angle there, on the wood, they should sit there.
02:31Perfect. And if you face each other and join each other in both hands.
02:37And again, we'll start with you, Matthew.
02:41I, Matthew, accept you, Laura, as my lawful wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for
02:54better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish.
03:03To love and to cherish.
03:09To the exclusion of all others, to the exclusion of all others, for as long as we both shall live.
03:14For as long as we both shall live.
03:17And now, Laura.
03:18I, Laura, accept you, Laura.
03:20I, Laura, accept you, Matthew, as my lawful wedded husband, as my lawful wedded husband, to have and to hold
03:26from this day forward.
03:30For better, for worse.
03:31For better, for worse.
03:32For richer, for poorer.
03:34For richer, for poorer.
03:35For richer, for poorer.
03:35In sickness and in health.
03:36In sickness and in health.
03:38To love and to cherish.
03:39To love and to cherish.
03:41To love and to cherish.
03:41To the exclusion of all others.
03:42To the exclusion of all others.
03:43To the exclusion of all others.
03:44For as long as we both shall live.
03:46For as long as we both shall live.
03:49Now Matthew, could you take Laura's rings and place them on the third finger of her
03:54left hand please.
04:19Talk amongst yourselves.
04:28And now Laura, could you do the same for Matthew?
04:39Lovely, could you join hands again?
04:42These rings have been given as a token of the wand into which you are both now entered,
04:46and by virtue of the declaration made by you both in my presence and in the presence of your witnesses,
04:53it is my privilege and pleasure to pronounce your husband and wife congratulations.
04:59You may kiss your bride.
