Parts of the ceremony involve ritual hair cutting, tying cotton threads soaked in holy water around the couples' wrists, and passing a candle around a circle of happily married and respected couples to bless the union.
To her majesty, the Queen, to the vitality of the special relationship between our peoples, and in the words of Shakespeare, to this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, to the Queen.
In this, we are blessed with the ingenuity and Imagination of a third of the world's population, including one and a half billion people under the age of 30.