Excuse us while we grab our handkerchiefs!
Choose from these prayers, blessings, and readings to add aspecial touch to your wedding day.
Thine was the plan, and only with Thee can we work it out with joy.
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Bless this loving wife.
Give them great spiritual purpose in life.
This we ask through Jesus Christ, great Lover of our souls.
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We thank you, also, for consecrating the union ofman and woman in his Name.
By the power of your HolySpirit, pour out the abundance of your blessing upon thisman and this woman.
Defend them from every enemy.
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Leadthem into all peace.
May love and laughter fill your hearts and your home for all at the days of your lives.
May the world be forever a better place because the two of you fell in love.
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In Jesus' name, Amen.
Blessings of the Hands
By Rev.
These are the hands that will work alongside yours as together you build your future.
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These are the hands that will hold you and comfort you in grief and uncertainty.
These are the hands that will hold your family as one.
These are the hands that will give you strength.
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Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone.
Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8, New International Version
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.Love never fails.
Romans 12:9-18, New International Version
Love must be sincere.
Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
Be devoted to one another in love.
Honor one another above yourselves.
Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Share with the Lord’s people who are in need.
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.
Live in harmony with one another.
Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.
Do not be conceited.
Do not repay anyone evil for evil.
Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone.
If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies.
He who loves his wife loves himself.
The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them.
Then you will win favor and a good namein the sight of God and man.
Would you speak againThe words you spokeWhen Adam sleptAnd Eve awoke?
Would you let your wineReplace our water.And look with graceOn this son, this daughter?
Oh Lord of EdenIn your majestyCreate againYour tapestry
One heartWhere there were two.This is the prayerWe lift to you.
I was yours,before I knew;and you have alwaysbeen mine too.
[i carry your heart with me (i carry it in)]
By E.E.
Whatever we are, you and Iwill always collide.
Let the fire of my body by the brightness In the mirror that reflects his face.
Let the water of my body join the waters Of the lotus pool he bathes in.
Let the breath of my body be air Lapping his tired limbs.
Let me be sky, and moving through me the cloud-dark Shyama, my beloved.
How Do I Love Thee?
(Sonnet 43)
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee?
I love thee with a love I seemed to loseWith my lost saints.
Sonnet 116
By William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments.
A Passage From “A Year” With C.S.
Who could bear to live in that excitement for even five years?
What would become of your work, your appetite, your sleep, your friendships?
But, of course, ceasing to be ‘in love’ need not mean ceasing to love.
Love in this second senselove as distinct from ‘being in love’is not merely a feeling.
Love Is an Adventure
By Pierre Tielhart de Chardin
Love is an adventure and a conquest.
It survives and develops like the universe itself only by perpetual discovery.
Put your faith in the spirit which dwells between the two of you.
There alone the skies are ever open for your love; there alone lies the great road ahead.
At some point, you decided to marry.
All these common things, and more, are the real process of a wedding.
Look at one another and remember this moment in time.
It is loyalty through good and bad times.
It settles for less than perfection, and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Love is content with the present, hopes for the future, and does not brood over the past.
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things you lack.
If you do not have it, no matter what else there is, it is not enough.
However, without doubt, it is friendship which keeps our spinning existence on an even keel.
True friendship holds a mirror to our foibles and failings, without destroying our sense of worthiness.
Bride and Groom came together as friends.
