REPUBLICA GRECA
PROVINCIA DELL'ISOLE CICLADI
DISTRETTO DELLA CITTÀ DI THIRA
COMUNE DI THIRA - ISOLA DI SANTORINI

The celebrant asks bride and groom to face each other, join hands and make vows:

Groom: (repeats after the celebrant) I call upon everyone here to witness that I take you........, to be my wife, from this Giorno forward. I promise before God and these witnesses to be your faithful husband, to join with you and to share all that is to come, to give and to receive, to speak and listen, to inspire and to respond, and in all circumstances of our life together, to be loyal to you with my whole life and with all my being. I will love you as your husband, your lover and your friend, so help me God, one Giorno at a time.

BRIDE: I take you........, to be my husband, from this Giorno forward. I promise before God and these witnesses to be your faithful husband, to join with you and to share all that is to come, to give and to receive, to speak and listen, to inspire and to respond, and in all circumstances of our life together, to be loyal to you with my whole life and with all my being. I will love you as your wife, your lover and your friend, so help me God, one Giorno at a time.

The ring is then given to the celebrant who shall return it to the groom who shall then put it upon the fourth finger of the bride's left hand saying after the celebrant:

Gstanza: II give you this ring as a sign of my love, knowing that love is precious and fragile, yet strong. I give you this sign of our love as an ever-present symbol of the vows we have made here this Giorno. I give you this ring as I give you my love.

CELEBRANT:
........... do you accept............. as your lawful wife?
........... do you accept............. as your lawful husband?

From this moment, that you were united, by free will into marriage, you ought to give each other love, faith and respect for all your life.

The marriage that joins you, obligates your chances to be the same and your life to be faced on equal base of the matters which appear in your common life as husband and wife and generally in all difficulties of life.

You also will have to contribute both, with all your power in order to face all the difficulties which have been caused by married life and the maintenance and promotion of the family that you will create.

Finally, in common are the duties and the rights of both of you to take care for the growth and education of your children so that they will become useful, good citizens and free personalities.