[AI translation] It was a pleasure for us when it became clear that you were engaged. We rejoice with you now as you stand at the gateway to the realisation of your fondest hopes. It is not only we who share in your joy, who surround you here now, but many others who love you and are praying for you from afar in this hour. You yourselves have chosen this word for this occasion, so let me give it as God's message: 'It is better for two than one...'.Why? Not only for practical reasons, but first and foremost because God's eternal ordinance is fulfilled in him. God's creative inspiration, when he saw man wandering alone in the great Garden of Eden, was "It is not good for man to be alone; I will make him a helper, a helper for him" (Genesis 2:18). True marriage always starts from above. It comes from God's thought, from God's will, by which He ordains two lives for each other. True marriage comes about when two souls recognize God's will for them from eternity. This is the very foundation of the truth of our verse, "It is far better for two". So accept one another from the hand of God, and every day be more convinced that it could not have been otherwise, for it is by His will that you have become one another.
"It is much better for two to work together than for one," says our Word, and many examples of practical life prove how true this is. Those who travel together on life's varied journeys are less weary, rest more sweetly, and wander on more merrily than the solitary traveller. Their joys are doubled because two rejoice, their sorrows are halved because two bear them, their burdens are lightened because two bear them, their faith is stronger because two believe. "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them," he says (Mt 18:20). You already know how important this is for you. Jesus is the one in whom this miracle "the two shall become one flesh" (Eph 5,31) is realized, and in whom you can always find one another without remainder. In His presence, there is no more ill will, no more clouds of envy and sorrow. His presence will ensure love, peace, joy and a happy marriage in your home.
He also promised this to the two: "If two of you will be of one accord on earth in all things whatsoever they ask, my Father in heaven will give it to them" (Mt 18,19). One will, not by the stronger imposing his will on the other, but by each submitting his will to a third. This third is Jesus, who gave his life for you to save you. He says: those who are of one will "whatever they ask, my Father in heaven will give them". You have become one another through answered prayer. May your life continue to be happy, strong and rich through answered prayer.
With prayerful love we wish you to experience together in your new life how true it is that "it is much better for two than for one".
Now, as a first step in this new life, take each other's right hand and say the vow after me.....
Date: 4 October 1952.