[Officiant Application] Matthew Armstrong

[Matthew Armstrong]

• FULL NAME: Matthew Armstrong
  PHONE NUMBER: (909) 458-2816
  LICENSE: **Attached Documents**
  COURSE PAYMENT RECIEPT: **Attached Receipt**

[Daniel Carmello]

San Andreas Judicial Branch
Public Notary Notice
"EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW"

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• Dear Mr.McMillan,
  
  Congratulations, your application has been accepted. Thank you for your interest in becoming a registered Officiant. You have taken the first steps. We look forward to seeing you in one of our online classes whenever you have the availability to attend.
  
  Respectfully,
  
  
  Director of Public Notary
  San Andreas Judicial Branch
  (909) 313 — [email protected]

[Albert Bathsheba]

San Andreas Judicial Branch
Public Notary Notice
"EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW"

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• Dear Mr Armstrong,
  
  Thank you for attending the Judicial Branches Becoming an Officiant class. We hope you enjoyed your time with us. You are now officially registered as an officiant. If you change your number at any point, please let a member of the Public Notary know.
  
  Check out your license at on the Officiant Database!
  
  Things to remember/ask before the ceremony:
  • Do they (meaning the bride and groom or groom and groom or bride and bride) need you to wear a specific color?
  • Do they have rings? Or do they want to exchange them during the ceremony?
  • Do they want to say their own vows?
  • Do they want to read the officiant speech beforehand? Or do they want a funny/more serious speech?
  • What is the time/location of the event?
  Things you must say for a marriage to be legal:
  • Vows (or some sort of pledge between the two individuals)
  • Declaration of intent
  **Remember to get two witness signatures before you leave the venue after the ceremony!**
  
  Sample Speech

  Introduction
  Welcome, family, friends and loved ones. We gather here today to celebrate the wedding of NAME and NAME. You have come here to share in this formal commitment they make to one another, to offer your love and support to this union, and to allow NAME and NAME to start their married life together surrounded by the people dearest and most important to them.So welcome to one and all, who have traveled from near and far. NAME and NAME thank you for your presence here today and now ask for your blessing, encouragement, and lifelong support, for their decision to be married.
  

  Vows (Personal Vows)

  NAME and NAME have written vows for each other, as a representation for their commitment for each other and to their marriage. One after the other they will speak them aloud. NAME, if you would please.
  [insert their personal testament here]
  And now for NAME, if you would please.
  [insert their personal testament here]

  Vows (Generic)

  NAME and NAME are prepared to make vows to each other, as a representation for their commitment for each other and to their marriage. NAME, will you please repeat after me:
  
  [Name], I promise to cherish you always, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth, and to be true to you in all things until death alone shall part us.
  
  And NAME, will you please repeat after me:
  
  [Name] I promise to cherish you always, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth, and to be true to you in all things until death alone shall part us.

  Ring exchange (if applicable)
  NAME and NAME have gotten each other rings. A ring is an unbroken circle, with ends that have been joined together, and it represents your union. It is a symbol of infinity, and of your infinite love. When you look at these rings on your hands, be reminded of this moment, your commitment, and the love you now feel for each other. Please present the rings.
  
  [Name], as you place this ring on [Name]'s finger, repeat these words after me:
  
  With this ring I, [Name], take you, [Name], to be no other than yourself. Loving what I know of you, and trusting what I do not yet know, I will respect your integrity and have faith in your abiding love for me, through all our years, and in all that life may bring us.
  
  [Name], as you place this ring on [Name]'s finger, repeat these words after me:
  
  With this ring I, [Name], take you, [Name], to be no other than yourself. Loving what I know of you, and trusting what I do not yet know, I will respect your integrity and have faith in your abiding love for me, through all our years, and in all that life may bring us.
  
  Declaration of Intent
  Before these witnesses, you have pledged to be joined in marriage. You have now sealed this pledge with your wedding rings. By the authority vested in me by the great State of San Andreas, I now pronounce you husband and wife.
  Marriage License Editing

  Once you have completed the ceremony and gotten the signatures, you must go to the Pending Ceremony part of the Government Website and submit the proper marriage license under the corresponding couples name.
  
  The picture below has underlined in blue what you need to change.

  Picture

  
  Respectfully,
  
  
  Albert Bathsheba
  Notary Clerk
  San Andreas Judicial Branch
  (909) 212-5502 — [email protected]