Prelude Concert Harp & Flute by Nancy Enslin
6:30 – Begin Prelude Music
6:45 -- Wedding party in annex
6:55 -- Solo(s)
Lighting of the Candles by Ushers Brad Burnell and Jonathan Gandy
7:00 -- Seating of Honored Guests
Begin Processional Music
1. Seat groom's grandmother
2. Seat groom's father
3. Seat groom’s step-father
4. Seat groom’s mother –
She lights Robert’s family candle
5. Seat bride's mother –
She lights Lexi’s family candle
Processional of Wedding Party
1. Pastor and Groom enter from side
Music: "Truly, Deeply, Madly"
by Savage Garden
2. Groomsmen and Bridesmaids:
Brad & Jennifer, Jonathan & Lizzie
3. Maid of Honor and Best Man:
Lew & Christina
4. Flower Girl and Ring Bearer:
Jamie & Jaymen
Begin Wedding Music –
“Thank God I Found You”
by Mariah Carey
1. Bride Enters with Grandfather
(Bride's mother stands as signal for all to stand)
Giving Away of the Bride
Introduction and Welcoming of Family and Friends:
We are gathered here in the sight of God and these witnesses to unite Robert and Lexi in holy matrimony. As believers in Jesus Christ, they recognize that it was God who instituted marriage, and who said, "It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." The God who made and redeemed them also instituted this relationship they are about to enter. Let us Pray together.
Prayer by Rev. David Linkletter
Communion: J. Craig Gandy
Servers: Lew & Brad Burnell
Wedding Vows:
Robert and Lexi, the vows you are about to take are not to be taken without careful thought and prayer. For in them you are committing yourselves exclusively the one to the other for as long as you both shall live. This love is not to be diminished by difficult circumstances, and it is only to be dissolved by death. As God's children by faith in Jesus Christ, the relationship of marriage is especially meaningful. Certainly it is possible for non-believers to marry, but only members of God's family by faith in Jesus Christ can ever experience the joy and fulfillment which God intends for marriage to have. Like a strong rope made of three twines by weaving Christ into your marriage you build a stronger marriage. A poem by Beth Stuckwisch explains it well,
Marriage takes three to be complete
It’s not enough for two to meet,
They must be united in love
By love’s creator, God above.
A marriage that follows God’s plan
Takes more than a woman and man.
It needs a oneness that can be
Only from Christ – marriage takes three.

Let me remind you, Robert and Lexi, your home will never be what God intends for it to be if you leave Him out of your relationship. As you are obedient to the Word of God, and allow God to control your relationship, your home will be the place off joy and testimony to the world that God intends.

Scripture Reading 1 Corinthians 13
"A marriage ceremony represents one of life's greatest commitments. But it also is a declaration of love. I wish to read to you what Paul wrote of love in a letter to the Corinthians. I believe it is a true model of love and it is a model of love I hope you pursue in your marriage:
"Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud. Love is never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not demand it's own way. Love is not irritable or touchy. Love does not hold grudges and will hardly notice when others do it wrong. Love is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out. If you love someone, you will be loyal to them no matter what the costs. You will always believe in them, always expect the best in them, and will always stand your ground in defending them."
Wedding Party Moves to Platform
(Bride and groom faces one another)
Exchange of Rings
Will you repeat after me:
I Robert, take you Lexi to be my wife, to love and cherish, from this day forward, and thereto pledge you my faith. I, Lexi, take you Robert, to be my husband, to love and to cherish, from this day forward, and thereto pledge you my faith. I understand you have brought rings as a token of your vows: Prayer: Bless O God, this ring, that he who gives it and she who wears it may ever abide in thy peace, living together in unity, in love, and in happiness, and with good purpose do thy will. Amen.
This ring is a symbol of the unbroken unity of truth now to be symbolized in your married life. Robert, will you repeat after me: With this ring, I thee wed. Let it ever be to us a symbol of our love. Prayer: Bless O God, this ring, that she who gives it and he who wears it may ever abide in thy peace, LIVING together in unity, in love and happiness, and with good purpose do thy will. Amen. This ring again is a symbol of the unbroken unity of truth now to be symbolized in your married life. Lexi, will you repeat after me: With this ring, I thee wed. Let it ever be to us a symbol of our love
“It’s Your Love” sung by
Brad, Rebecca & Jennifer
Scripture Reading Ephesians 5: 22-33
In Ephesians, the relationship between husband and wife is compared to between Christ and the church: " Submit yourselves one to another as the fear of God. Wives, show reverence for your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church and He is the savior of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own Husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wife, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it; that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word; that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkles or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own body; He that loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever yet hateth his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the church. For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is a profound one and I am saying this as it refers to Christ and the Church; however, let husband love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respect her husband."
Charge to Couple
Prayer
Dear Heavenly Father, our hearts are filled with great happiness on Robert and Lexi's wedding day, as they come before You pledging their hearts and lives to one another. Grant that they may ever be true and loving, living together in such a way as to never bring shame or heartbreak into their marriage. Temper their hearts with kindness and understanding, rid them of all pretense or jealousy. Help them to remember to be each other's sweetheart, helpmate, best friend and guide, so that together they may meet the cares and problems of life more bravely. And with the passage of time, may they find great contentment in the rich joy of senior companionship. May the home they are creating today truly be a place of love and harmony, where Your Spirit is always present. Bless this marriage we pray and walk beside Robert and Lexi throughout all of their lives together. We ask these things in Jesus name; Amen
Lighting of Unity Candle
Robert and Lexi, the two separate candles symbolize your separate lives, separate families and separate sets of friends. I ask that each of you take on of the lit candles and that together you light the center candle. The individual candles represent your lives before today. Lighting the center candle represents that your two lives are now joined to one light, and represents the joining together of your two families and sets of friends to one.
Bible Presentation and Parent Dedication
To Jaymen Marcus Affonso “Burnell”
Rose Ceremony
Words of the Rose Ceremony:
"Your gift to each other for your wedding today has been your wedding rings - which shall always be an outward demonstration of your vows of love and respect; and a public showing of your commitment to each other. You now have what remains the most honorable title which may exist between a man and a woman - the title of "husband" and "wife." For your first gift as husband and wife, that gift will be a single rose. In the past, the rose was considered a symbol of love and a single rose always meant only one thing - it meant the words "I love you." So it is appropriate that for your first gift - as husband and wife - that gift would be a single rose. Please exchange your first gift as husband and wife.
In some ways it seems like you have not done anything at all. Just a moment ago you were holding one small rose - and now you are holding one small rose. In some ways, a marriage ceremony is like this. In some ways, tomorrow is going to seem no different than yesterday. But in fact today, just now, you both have given and received one of the most valuable and precious gifts of life - one I hope you always remember - the gift of true and abiding love within the devotion of marriage.
Robert and Lexi, I would ask that where ever you make your home in the future - whether it be a large and elegant home - or a small and graceful one - that you both pick one very special location for roses; so that on each anniversary of this truly wonderful occasion you both may take a rose to that spot both as a recommitment to your marriage - and a recommitment that THIS will be a marriage based upon love. In every marriage there are times where it is difficult to find the right words. It is easiest to hurt who we most love. It is easiest to be most hurt by who we most love. It might be difficult some time to words to say "I am sorry" or "I forgive you"; "I need you" or "I am hurting". If this should happen, if you simply can not find these words, leave a rose at that spot which both of you have selected - for that rose than says what matters most of all and should overpower all other things and all other words. That rose says the words: "I still love you." The other should accept this rose for the words which can not be found, and remember the love and hope that you both share today.
Robert & Lexi, if there is anything you remember of this marriage ceremony, it is that it was love that brought you here today, it is only love which can make it a glorious union, and it is by love which your marriage shall endure."

Pronouncement as Husband & Wife
Pronouncement For as much as Robert and Lexi have consented together in holy wedlock, and have witnessed the same before God and these witnesses, and thereto have pledged their faithfulness each to the other, and have pledged the same by the giving and receiving each of a ring, by the authority invested in me as a minister of the gospel according to the laws of the State of Texas, I pronounce that they are husband and wife together, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Those that God has joined together, let no man put assunder. Prayer Join with me as we ask God's blessing on this new formed family unit. Shall we pray?
Eternal Father, creator, redeemer, lover of our souls, we now turn to you, and as the first act of this couple in their newly formed union. We as you to protect their home. May they always turn to you for guidance, for strength, for provision, for direction. May they glorify you in the choices they make, in the ministries they involve themselves in, in all that they do. Use them to draw others to yourself, and let them stand as a testimony to the world of your faithfulness. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
The Kiss You may kiss your bride.
Introduction Pastor -- Now it is my happy privilege to introduce to you for the first time,

Mr. and Mrs.Robert Burnell.

Robert & Lexi Burnell's Web Page