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Recently I performed a wedding ceremony for my friend Randy Noseworthy and his bride Janet Noseworthy. What follows is the service as written and pretty much performed.
$Celebrant:
We are gathered here today in the face of this gathering of geeks, to merge these two projects ($Groom_Name) and ($Bride_Name) in to a single trunk: which is an honorable and solemn project and therefore is not be be entered into unadvisedly or light but reverently and soberly. Into this trunk these two projects come now to be joined. If any one can show just cause why then man not be merged successfully, them them speak now or forever revoke there commit privileges.
Optional Section (giving away the bride)
Who grants commit acces for this Woman to This
Man
($person_giving_commit_acces)
I Do.
$Celebrant to $Groom_Name:
($Groom_Name), do you consent to give ($Bride_Name) merge access to current, to live in a state of unity. Will you love, honor, comfort and cherish her from this day forward forsaking all other projects keeping only unto her for as long as you both shall process?
$Groom_Name:
I Do
$Celebrant to $Bride_Name:
($Groom_Name), do you consent to give ($Bride_Name) merge access to current, to live in a state of unity. Will you love, honor, comfort and cherish her from this day forward forsaking all other projects keeping only unto her for as long as you both shall process?
$Bride_Name:
I do
$Celebrant: addressing the $Groom_Name who repeats the marriage vows:
I ($Groom_Name) give thee ($Bride_Name) commit access to my life to merge our paths into a single source tree as my wife for better for worse for richer for poorer in sickness and in health to love honor and cherish till netsplit do us part
$Celebrant: addressing the $Groom_Name who repeats the marriage vows:
I ($Bride_Name) give thee ($Groom_Name) commit access to my life to merge our paths into a single source tree as my wife for better for worse for richer for poorer in sickness and in health to love honor and cherish till netsplit do us part
$Celebrant then asks for the brides ring from the best man.
$Celebrant: (about brides ring):
May this ring be a token of the love and commit access that the user intends to bestow upon the recipient.
$Groom_Name: placing ring on $Bride_Name’s finger:
With this ring I thee wed. Wear it as a symbol of our love and commitment.
$Celebrant: (about $Groom_Name’s ring):
May this ring be a token of the love and commit access that the user intends to bestow upon the recipient.
$Groom_Name: placing ring on $Bride_Name’s finger:
With this ring I thee wed. Wear it as a symbol of our love and commitment.
$Celebrant:
At this Time ($Groom_Name) and ($Bride_Name) will begin the compile of the Linux kernel from source. This event symbolizes that marriage is the culmination of a collaborative process. Even though there may be errors along the way that threw a process of conflict resolution and communication that it can be fixed and made better over time.
$Celebrant:
May this couple be prepared to continue to give, be able to resolve conflicts, and experience more and more joy with each passing day, and every passing year. ($Groom_Name) and ($Bride_Name), are now beginning the process of merging their life’s, we hope that they may have loving assistance from their family, the constant support of friends and fellow penguin people and a long life with good health and everlasting love. In so much as ($Groom_Name) and ($Bride_Name) have consented to merge together in wedlock, and have witnessed the same before this company, having given commit access to the other and having declared same by the giving and receiving of a ring, I pronounce that they are husband and wife.
$Celebrant: (to the couple):
You may now Kiss the $Bride.
$Celebrant:
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you
Mr. and Mrs.…………
Thanks! It was awesome!