Wedding Sample 7
Processional:
The bride is escorted to the altar.
Invocation:
God, for the joy of this occasion, we thank you. For the meaning of this day, we thank you. For this important moment in an ever growing relationship, we thank you. For your presence here and now and for your presence at all times, we thank you.
Marriage Introduction:
__________ and __________ have come here today to proclaim before family and friends their love for each other. To declare their choice to live, partner and grow together-out loud and in your presence-out of their desire that we will all come to feel a very real and intimate part of their decision.
This is the time that __________ and _________ have chosen to become husband and wife. We are here today to witness their commitment to each other in the special bond of marriage and to wish them happiness, abundance and joy in their life together.
Within its framework of commitment and loyalty, marriage enables the ever-growing tolerance, patience and respect for each other to sustain a deep, lasting and life-affirming relationship. We who are witnessing your marriage today hope that it is, above all else, one that enables each of you, and as one, to be the grandest version of the greatest vision you ever held about who you are.
Prayer:
Hand in hand we come before you God.
Hand in hand we are stepping out in faith.
We who are gathered here, ask that you take this couple into your hands.
Help them to keep firm in the commitments they are about to make.
Guide them as they are about to become a family and as they change through the years.
May they be as flexible as they are faithful.
Help us all to be your hands if there need be.
Strengthen tenderly all of our commitments.
Address:
________ and ________, by your commitment to love each other, and to work with all your hearts toward creating an atmosphere of care and respect, and by your willingness to face together the fears and uncertainty that underlie human life, you marry yourselves more surely than any document we will put our signatures on here today. Your love for one another and your willingness to accept each other’s strength and frailties with understanding and consideration will form the foundation for a life together that will last.
Today you commit yourselves to honouring and protecting one another above your separate selves, and to valuing your union above your own interests. In doing so, you will find a wealth of peace and love not otherwise attainable. But with this joy comes a profound responsibility to protect the bond you share. For it is only with continual care that your love is truly secure in the face of life’s inevitable tests.
You must regard each other with the deepest respect. You must appreciate each other’s talents, foster each other’s dreams and be ever mindful of the many gifts that the other offers you. You must inspire and encourage each other. For by strengthening your spouse, you strengthen your marriage. Bring out the very best in each other. Be sparing in criticism and generous in praise for things well done.
In communication be honest and open. For the heart that communicates truth without hesitation earns trust and builds a secure home. With truth comes respect, and with respect love grows. So accept your marriage as a work in progress that will hereafter consume your attention and yet never be completed - because a lifelong love requires a lifetime of hard work. But it is a joyous labor, whose fruits are the very richest.
A vast unknown future stretches out before you. That future, with its hopes and disappointments, its joys and its sorrows, is hidden from your eyes. But it is a great tribute to your belief in each other that you are willing to face those uncertainties together. May the pure simple love with which you join your hands today never fail, but grow only deeper and surer with every year you spend together.
Reading:
What greater thing is there
for two human souls
than to feel that they are joined for life -
to strengthen each other in all sorrow,
to minister each other in all pain,
to be one with each other in silent unspoken memories.
Expression of Intent/Vows:
At this time we remind _______and________that they are performing an act of complete faith, each in the other, that the heart of their marriage will be the relationship they create. In a world where faith often falls short of expectation, it is a tribute to these two who will now join hands and hearts in perfect faith.
Bride take Groom’s hands so you may see the gift they are to you.
* These are the hands young, strong and vibrant with love, that are holding yours on your Wedding Day, as he promises to love you all the days of his life.
* These are the hands you will place with joy against your stomach, until he too feels his child stir within your womb.
* These are the hands, so large and rough, yet they will be gentle as he holds your baby the first time.
* These are the hands that will passionately love and cherish you through the years.
* These are the hands that will countless times wipe the tears of sorrow and tears of joy from your eyes.
* These are the hands that will comfort you and your children in illness and hold you through grief and fear.
* These are the hands that will tenderly lift your chin to look into your eyes - eyes filled completely with his love and desire for you.
Groom take Bride’s hands so that you may see the gift they are to you.
* These are the hands smooth young and carefree, that are holding yours on your Wedding Day as she promises to love you all the days of her life.
* These are the hands that will hold each child in tender love, soothing and encouraging them along the way - and knowing when it will be time to let go.
* These are the hands that will hold you tight as you struggle through difficult times.
* These are the hands that will comfort you when you are sick or console you when you are grieving.
* These are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through the years for a lifetime of happiness.
* These are the hands that will hold you in joy and excitement and hope.
* These are the hands that will work with yours as you chase down your dreams together - everything you wish for is there to be had.
(To Bride and Groom) Now clasp your hands tightly together…
May these hands always be held by one another. May they have strength to hold on through the storms of stress and the darkness of disillusionment. May they be tender and gentle as they nurture each other in love. May these hands build a marriage founded in grace, rich in caring, and reaching together to bring forth the best in both.
Minister to Groom:
_________, will you receive________ as your wife. Will you pledge to her your love, faith and tenderness, cherishing her with a husband’s loyalty and devotion?
Groom: I will.
Minister to Bride:
________, will you receive_________ as your husband? Will you pledge to him your faith and tenderness, cherishing him with a wife’s loyalty and devotion?
Bride: I will.
Minister:
________ and _______ say now to each other words which will tell of your love.
Groom:
I love you. Today is a very special day. Long ago you were just a dream and a prayer. Thank you for being what you are to me. With our future as bright as the promises of God, I will care for you, honour and protect you. I lay down my life for you, my friend and my love.
Bride:
I love you. Today is a very special day. Long ago you were just a dream and a prayer. Thank you for being what you are to me. With our future as bright as the promises of God, I will care for you, honour and protect you. I lay down my life for you, my friend and my love.
Exchange of Rings:
The wedding ring is the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual bond which unites two loyal hearts in endless love. It is a seal of the vows _______ and _______ have made to one another.
Bless, God, these rings that ______ and _______ who give them and who will wear them, may ever abide in your peace - living together in unity, love and happiness for the rest of their lives.
Groom:
I give you this ring as a symbol of our vows, and with all that I am, and all that I have, I honour you. With this ring, I thee wed.
Bride:
I give you this ring as a symbol of our vows and with all that I am and all that I have, I honour you. With this ring, I thee wed.
Minister:
In as much as you have each pledged to the other your lifelong commitment, love and devotion, I now pronounce you man and wife. _______ you may now kiss your Bride.
Benediction:
We ask that the God of love may deepen the lives of ______and ________. May the relationship which today has been expressed, continue to grow in the years to come. And whatever changes time may bring, let this wedding ceremony remain as a treasured memory and a guide to life. May they always experience that breathless wonder that exclaims “Out of all this world YOU have chosen ME.” When life is done and the sun is setting, may they be found then as now, still hand in hand, still thanking You for each other. Amen
Blessing for the Newlyweds:
_________ and ________ May your home be filled with laughter and the warm embrace of a summer day. May you find peacefulness and beauty, challenge and satisfaction, humor and insight, healing and renewal, love and wisdom. May you always feel that what you have is enough.
Signing of the Register:
Reading:
From every human soul
there arises a light that reaches straight to heaven,
and when two souls
that are designed to be together find each other,
their streams of light flow together
and a single, brighter light goes forth from their united being.
Pronouncement of Marriage:
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce you to _______ and _______ for the first time as husband and wife. May they go in Light.
The bride is escorted to the altar.
Invocation:
God, for the joy of this occasion, we thank you. For the meaning of this day, we thank you. For this important moment in an ever growing relationship, we thank you. For your presence here and now and for your presence at all times, we thank you.
Marriage Introduction:
__________ and __________ have come here today to proclaim before family and friends their love for each other. To declare their choice to live, partner and grow together-out loud and in your presence-out of their desire that we will all come to feel a very real and intimate part of their decision.
This is the time that __________ and _________ have chosen to become husband and wife. We are here today to witness their commitment to each other in the special bond of marriage and to wish them happiness, abundance and joy in their life together.
Within its framework of commitment and loyalty, marriage enables the ever-growing tolerance, patience and respect for each other to sustain a deep, lasting and life-affirming relationship. We who are witnessing your marriage today hope that it is, above all else, one that enables each of you, and as one, to be the grandest version of the greatest vision you ever held about who you are.
Prayer:
Hand in hand we come before you God.
Hand in hand we are stepping out in faith.
We who are gathered here, ask that you take this couple into your hands.
Help them to keep firm in the commitments they are about to make.
Guide them as they are about to become a family and as they change through the years.
May they be as flexible as they are faithful.
Help us all to be your hands if there need be.
Strengthen tenderly all of our commitments.
Address:
________ and ________, by your commitment to love each other, and to work with all your hearts toward creating an atmosphere of care and respect, and by your willingness to face together the fears and uncertainty that underlie human life, you marry yourselves more surely than any document we will put our signatures on here today. Your love for one another and your willingness to accept each other’s strength and frailties with understanding and consideration will form the foundation for a life together that will last.
Today you commit yourselves to honouring and protecting one another above your separate selves, and to valuing your union above your own interests. In doing so, you will find a wealth of peace and love not otherwise attainable. But with this joy comes a profound responsibility to protect the bond you share. For it is only with continual care that your love is truly secure in the face of life’s inevitable tests.
You must regard each other with the deepest respect. You must appreciate each other’s talents, foster each other’s dreams and be ever mindful of the many gifts that the other offers you. You must inspire and encourage each other. For by strengthening your spouse, you strengthen your marriage. Bring out the very best in each other. Be sparing in criticism and generous in praise for things well done.
In communication be honest and open. For the heart that communicates truth without hesitation earns trust and builds a secure home. With truth comes respect, and with respect love grows. So accept your marriage as a work in progress that will hereafter consume your attention and yet never be completed - because a lifelong love requires a lifetime of hard work. But it is a joyous labor, whose fruits are the very richest.
A vast unknown future stretches out before you. That future, with its hopes and disappointments, its joys and its sorrows, is hidden from your eyes. But it is a great tribute to your belief in each other that you are willing to face those uncertainties together. May the pure simple love with which you join your hands today never fail, but grow only deeper and surer with every year you spend together.
Reading:
What greater thing is there
for two human souls
than to feel that they are joined for life -
to strengthen each other in all sorrow,
to minister each other in all pain,
to be one with each other in silent unspoken memories.
Expression of Intent/Vows:
At this time we remind _______and________that they are performing an act of complete faith, each in the other, that the heart of their marriage will be the relationship they create. In a world where faith often falls short of expectation, it is a tribute to these two who will now join hands and hearts in perfect faith.
Bride take Groom’s hands so you may see the gift they are to you.
* These are the hands young, strong and vibrant with love, that are holding yours on your Wedding Day, as he promises to love you all the days of his life.
* These are the hands you will place with joy against your stomach, until he too feels his child stir within your womb.
* These are the hands, so large and rough, yet they will be gentle as he holds your baby the first time.
* These are the hands that will passionately love and cherish you through the years.
* These are the hands that will countless times wipe the tears of sorrow and tears of joy from your eyes.
* These are the hands that will comfort you and your children in illness and hold you through grief and fear.
* These are the hands that will tenderly lift your chin to look into your eyes - eyes filled completely with his love and desire for you.
Groom take Bride’s hands so that you may see the gift they are to you.
* These are the hands smooth young and carefree, that are holding yours on your Wedding Day as she promises to love you all the days of her life.
* These are the hands that will hold each child in tender love, soothing and encouraging them along the way - and knowing when it will be time to let go.
* These are the hands that will hold you tight as you struggle through difficult times.
* These are the hands that will comfort you when you are sick or console you when you are grieving.
* These are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through the years for a lifetime of happiness.
* These are the hands that will hold you in joy and excitement and hope.
* These are the hands that will work with yours as you chase down your dreams together - everything you wish for is there to be had.
(To Bride and Groom) Now clasp your hands tightly together…
May these hands always be held by one another. May they have strength to hold on through the storms of stress and the darkness of disillusionment. May they be tender and gentle as they nurture each other in love. May these hands build a marriage founded in grace, rich in caring, and reaching together to bring forth the best in both.
Minister to Groom:
_________, will you receive________ as your wife. Will you pledge to her your love, faith and tenderness, cherishing her with a husband’s loyalty and devotion?
Groom: I will.
Minister to Bride:
________, will you receive_________ as your husband? Will you pledge to him your faith and tenderness, cherishing him with a wife’s loyalty and devotion?
Bride: I will.
Minister:
________ and _______ say now to each other words which will tell of your love.
Groom:
I love you. Today is a very special day. Long ago you were just a dream and a prayer. Thank you for being what you are to me. With our future as bright as the promises of God, I will care for you, honour and protect you. I lay down my life for you, my friend and my love.
Bride:
I love you. Today is a very special day. Long ago you were just a dream and a prayer. Thank you for being what you are to me. With our future as bright as the promises of God, I will care for you, honour and protect you. I lay down my life for you, my friend and my love.
Exchange of Rings:
The wedding ring is the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual bond which unites two loyal hearts in endless love. It is a seal of the vows _______ and _______ have made to one another.
Bless, God, these rings that ______ and _______ who give them and who will wear them, may ever abide in your peace - living together in unity, love and happiness for the rest of their lives.
Groom:
I give you this ring as a symbol of our vows, and with all that I am, and all that I have, I honour you. With this ring, I thee wed.
Bride:
I give you this ring as a symbol of our vows and with all that I am and all that I have, I honour you. With this ring, I thee wed.
Minister:
In as much as you have each pledged to the other your lifelong commitment, love and devotion, I now pronounce you man and wife. _______ you may now kiss your Bride.
Benediction:
We ask that the God of love may deepen the lives of ______and ________. May the relationship which today has been expressed, continue to grow in the years to come. And whatever changes time may bring, let this wedding ceremony remain as a treasured memory and a guide to life. May they always experience that breathless wonder that exclaims “Out of all this world YOU have chosen ME.” When life is done and the sun is setting, may they be found then as now, still hand in hand, still thanking You for each other. Amen
Blessing for the Newlyweds:
_________ and ________ May your home be filled with laughter and the warm embrace of a summer day. May you find peacefulness and beauty, challenge and satisfaction, humor and insight, healing and renewal, love and wisdom. May you always feel that what you have is enough.
Signing of the Register:
Reading:
From every human soul
there arises a light that reaches straight to heaven,
and when two souls
that are designed to be together find each other,
their streams of light flow together
and a single, brighter light goes forth from their united being.
Pronouncement of Marriage:
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce you to _______ and _______ for the first time as husband and wife. May they go in Light.
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