Wedding
Hi, everyone. Welcome to our wedding web site! Sorry it took us so long to update it after the wedding. If you want to see the old version that we had up after we sent out the invites, it is at at http://wedding.anmri.com/invite.html
.Vows
Lots of people have asked us for our wedding vows. Here they are:
Roger: A wedding is traditionally accompanied by a frequently long and always boring disquisition on the nature of marriage. Attendees who would like more information on this topic are encouraged to search the internet or visit a library. Today we are gathered to join Annemarie Prinsloo and Bill Murdock in holy matrimony, and we intend to keep it snappy. The couple will now say a few words.
Annemarie: I want to use the words of Confucius who seems to have known way back when what my heart and mind want for a future with Bill:
When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved.
When true Knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere.
When the will is sincere, then the heart is set right.
When the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated.
When the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated.
When the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly.
And when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in the world.
Bill: I call upon the wit and wisdom of the poet Catullus, even if I do mangle his thoughts a bit in translation:
We proclaim that our love will be delightful and without end.
Pray that this proclamation shall truly hold in our genuine hearts.
Let us proceed our whole lives through this perpetual pact of friendship.
Roger: Bill, do you now choose Annemarie to be your wife, to share your life openly with her, to speak truthfully and lovingly to her, to accept her fully as she is and delight in who she is becoming, to respect her uniqueness, and compassionately support her through all the changes of your years together?
Bill: I [do / do not] (choose one)
Roger: Annemarie, do you now chose Bill to be your husband, to share your life openly with him, to speak truthfully and lovingly to him, to accept him fully as he is and delight in who he is becoming, to respect his uniqueness, and compassionately support him through all the changes of your years together?
Annemarie: I [do / do not] (choose one)
Roger: I now pronounce you husband and wife.
Vows were presented as written. In both cases, "do" was chosen.
Pictures
We have a slide-show of wedding pictures at at at http://bill.murdocks.org/annemarie-and-bill-wedding-video/
.Also see our wedding pictures up on Flickr (and you can scroll through them at the top of this page).