(upbeat music)
(gentle music)
- [Pastor] Welcome, everybody. Yeah,
here we are.
This is great.
This is so good.
This is so wonderful.
It's wonderful to be here today to witness the marriage
of these two awesome, cool and incredibly hot people.
I am honored to be leading this today.
This is sick.
I feel so important, and I love that.
These are people who love their families,
who love all of their friends.
They love all of us, and these two have so much love
for each other, and we all have so much love for them.
(wistful music)
(music intensifies)
Really, these two are fun personified
and if you catch the two of them together
they will be giggling.
You see, before Maggie, Zach was chronically single
and this was really just his fault.
He was very picky with his prior relationships.
He didn't think someone like Maggie existed.
She's endlessly sweet, compassionate, funny,
kind of a weirdo.
It's a combination
of things that he didn't think could be it in person
but I do love how we spoke
of cherishing each moment, each stage.
He didn't wanna rush into the engagement
because he wanted to experience every possible
experience that you can have while dating.
He can only date Maggie once in his life.
He didn't wanna miss any experiences.
He did, however
fully miss the most romantic special opportunity ever
in 2019 when they were at the end of this big hike
together overlooking these beautiful mountains
and valleys in Australia, and for some reason
they put on music on their phone and started dancing
and then they both started crying.
It was because that was the moment they really knew
that this was it.
They found each other.
If fate is real,
then finding each other at a gay bar was fate.
And if fate isn't real, then they're just both very lucky
because they're perfect for each other.
They're already doing the things that I might mention
in a wedding ceremony.
They're already caring for each other
in sickness and in health.
They take care
of each other physically, mentally, emotionally.
They make each other better.
They love each other.
Zach and Maggie's relationship started
with cute dates where they found excuses to
spend just a little more time together.
And on this date
they make the agreement to spend forever together.
(joyful music)
- Zach, we met in line for a bathroom.
I know you don't love it when I minimize it, but I never
thought I'd find the love of my life on account
of your chronic IBS.
(audience laughing)
Ever since the day I met you, I knew you were
someone special
and someone I wanted to brave this chaotic world with.
- You are the best thing that has ever happened to me.
I didn't think someone like you was possible.
I'm amazed by how loving
and endlessly compassionate you are.
I know that we can get through anything together
because we've already sort of had to.
- [Maggie] I longed for someone who could be my best friend,
who would listen to me and laugh
with me until our abs were on fire.
Someone who didn't take life too seriously
but also lived it to the fullest.
And, I don't know many people who do it quite like you.
- I love how when you hear a good joke
you immediately want to hear it again.
I love that you got drunk and reserved
maggiecornfield@gmail.com, two years into dating, just
in case.
(audience laughing)
You're my best friend and so much more.
The privilege of spending my life
with you is the greatest honor I could ever ask for.
- [Maggie] What I never imagined were the little things
about you that would fill my heart.
The little smile that never leaves your face when
you're tucked away sleeping every night, the way you scream
laugh at nearly every joke while we're at the movies.
You truly are the most beautiful human I've ever met.
I used to think that I needed a love that would complete me
but then I met you
and you helped me see that I was already whole.
(foreign language)
(soft music)
- At the end of this ceremony, Zach will
be stepping on glass,
which I know given everything,
I think we're all a little nervous
but it's actually, I think, the right move.
I think it's the right thing to do.
There are a few meanings to the stomping of the glass.
One of them is to symbolize the fragility
of a relationship and remind us
that we must treat our relationship with special care.
But today it conversely symbolizes
that nothing is gonna get in the way of these two.
They're gonna lead the life they wanna live
no matter what happens to them.
They are stronger than the glass.
That said, Zach, please be careful.
All right.
Can I have the rings?
Maggie, with this ring, do you take Zach
as your lawfully wedded husband and your best friend?
- I do.
- Hold on.
One more time,
Maggie, with this ring, do you take Zach
as your lawfully wedded husband
and your best friend in good times
and bad, to have and to hold from this day forward?
- I do.
(audience applauds and cheers)
- And Zach.
With this ring, do you take Maggie
as your lovely wedded wife and your best friend in good
times and bad, to have it at home from this day forward?
- I do.
- Hell yeah.
Wearing these rings will always remind you
of your love, of this day
of your joy and of each other, so wear them proudly.
And now by the power vested in me by the internet,
I now pronounce you husband and wife.
You may now stomp the glass and kiss each other.
(audience claps and cheers)
(celebratory music)
- Please, welcome Zach and Maggie!
(audience cheers)
(upbeat music)
(indistinct yelling)
(audience cheers)
(celebratory music)
- Zach and Maggie, you're so perfect together.
- I can't believe that my (foreign language)
got married today.
- The happiness that I get from you guys, this is really
this is simply what life's all about.
- Toast the sweethearts. May all sweethearts become married
couples and may all married couples remain sweethearts.
(celebratory music)