Hazel and Tec

Below is the speech prepared by one of our principal sponsors, may you also be blessed by it.



Marriage nuptials are made colorful by wedding traditions during the ceremony and the reception that follows. Flower-strewn red carpets for the bride, unity candle lighting (dyed sands in yours), the cake, the “wine”, the dove (and your butterflies), and the bridal bouquet/garter—these wedding symbols have each their unique meanings. Alas, these symbols end their tasks at the end of the wedding day.

I choose for my gift to you something that would always remind you of what your marriage should be—the scissors. There are two messages for you to keep in mind each time you use it.

In order for scissors to fulfill its intended purpose, the two blades must always work together. Separately, the blades can still be useful for the user, but never as scissors. The same is true with your marriage. Remove togetherness in your marriage and will it still be marriage? You must not, therefore, allow anything and anybody to separate you from each other. And this brings us to the second thought.

A pair of scissors is a very useful cutting instrument (specially this multi-purpose scissors I have chosen for you). It cuts anything that gets between its blades. So should your marriage be. Cut everything and everybody that gets between you two. And cut immediately!

This scissors, then, must always say to you, “Let no one separate them, for God has joined them together.”

In your marriage, as in all marriages, there are countless mountains to climb. Always climb them together and with God! And don’t forget to bring this scissors with you.