Rose Ceremony:
Your gift to each other for your wedding today has been your
wedding rings - which shall always be an outward demonstration
of your vows of love and respect; and a public showing of your
commitment to each other.
You now have what remains the most honorable title, which may
exist between a man and a woman - the title of "husband" and
"wife." For your first gift as husband and wife, that gift will be a
single rose.

In the past, the rose was considered a symbol of love and a
single rose always meant only one thing - it meant the words "I
love you." So it is appropriate that for your first gift - as husband
and wife - that gift would be a single rose.

Please exchange your first gift as husband and wife.

In some ways it seems like you have not done anything at all.
Just a moment ago you were holding one small rose - and now
you are holding one small rose. In some ways, a marriage
ceremony is like this. In some ways, tomorrow is going to seem
no different than yesterday. But in fact today, just now, you both
have given and received one of the most valuable and precious
gifts of life - one I hope you always remember - the gift of true
and abiding love within the devotion of marriage.

Jinger and Michael, I would ask that where ever you make your
home in the future - whether it be a large and elegant home - or
a small and graceful one - that you both pick one very special
location for roses; so that on each anniversary of this truly
wonderful occasion you both may take a rose to that spot both
as a re-commitment to your marriage - and a re-commitment
that THIS will be a marriage based upon love.  
In every marriage there are times where it is difficult to find the
right words.  
It is easiest to hurt those we most love. It is easiest to be most
hurt by those we most love.

It might be difficult some time to find the words to say "I am
sorry" or "I forgive you"; "I need you" or "I am hurting". If this
should happen, if you simply can not find these words, leave a
rose at that spot which both of you have selected - for that rose  
says what matters most of all and should overpower all other
things and all other words.  
That rose says the words: "I still love you."  
The other should accept this rose for the words which can not
be found, and remember the love and hope that you both share
today.  
Jinger and Michael, if there is anything you remember from this
marriage ceremony, I hope you remember that it was love that
brought you here today, it is only love which can make it a
glorious union, and it is by love which your marriage shall
endure."
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"Who so findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and
obtaineth the favor of the Lord."  Prov. 18:22
Rose Ceremony
The Rose Ceremony is simple yet
profoundly moving. The bride and
groom exchange two roses,
symbolizing the giving and receiving of
their love for each other throughout
their entire married life. The Rose
Ceremony also conveys how to use
the rose and its symbolism in difficult
times in order to forgive each other.

This ceremony is after the
pronouncement of Husband and Wife
and after the kiss.