Going to the Chapel

Blake and Lydia met in August 2001 at Ninth and O Baptist Church. Blake had just moved to Louisville, Kentucky and Lydia was just beginning her senior year of high school. In the summer of 2003 Blake and Lydia’s friendship blossomed into love. In October of 2004 Blake got down on one knee and proposed to Lydia… Obviously she said “YES”!  They were married on June 11, 2005 in Alumni Chapel on the campus of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at six o’clock in the evening.

Blake’s Commitment to Lydia

I, Blake Ring, take you Lydia Grace Cook to be my wedded wife. With deepest joy I receive you into my life that together we may become one. As is Christ to his body the church, so I will be to you a loving and faithful husband. Always will I perform my headship over you even as Christ does over me, knowing that his Lordship is one of the holiest desired of my life. I promise you my deepest love. My fullest devotion. My tenderest care. I promise I will live first unto God rather then others or even you. I promise that I will lead our lives into a life of faith and hope in Christ Jesus ever honoring God’s guidance through His spirit in the Word. And so throughout life, no matter what lays ahead of us, I pledge to you my life as a loving and faithful husband.

Lydia’s Commitment to Blake

I, Lydia Grace Cook, take you Blake Ring to be my wedded husband. With deepest joy, I come into my new life with you. As you have pledged to me your life and love, so I too, happily give you my life. And in confidence submit myself to your headship as to the Lord. As is the church in her relationship to Christ so I will be to you. Blake, I will live first unto our God and then unto you. God has prepared me for you and so I will ever strengthen, help, comfort, and encourage you. Therefore, throughout life, no matter what may be ahead of us I pledge my life to you as an obedient and faithful wife.