It’s a Wonderful Life is a 1946 film starring James Stewart as George Bailey, a man whose depression on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel. The prayers of his family and friends reach heaven and angel Clarence Odbody is assigned to save George and earn his wings. Taking a cue from another Christmas classic, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched and what the world would be like if he had not existed.

While there are a number of inspirational lines from the movie, the best loved one is in a romantic scene between George and soon to be wife Mary and is the the famous “lasso the moon” quote. The line is said to Mary Hatch, played by Donna Reed, when she playfully says she wants to dance by the light of the moon. 

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Ceremony Reading:  It’s a Wonderful Life

George Bailey: What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That’s a pretty good idea. I’ll give you the moon, Mary.

Mary: I’ll take it. Then what?

George Bailey: Well, then you can swallow it, and it’ll all dissolve, see… and the moonbeams would shoot out of your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair..

Ceremony Reading: Its a Wonderful Life

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