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Wedding Prayers

wedding prayers

Add a nice religious touch to your ceremony.



We can place these wedding prayers to enhance your ceremony.

These marriage prayers are examples, and we are happy to accomodate any custom prayer you may want us to use to bless your wedding.

(Place one or more these in the ceremony to add a lite Religious touch)

 All my guests were talking about the ceremony throughout the evening at the reception and they were impressed with the ceremony.--                                                                                                                             

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Wedding Prayer 1:

Bless their marriage, O God, as they begin their journey down the road of life together. We don’t know what lies ahead for the road turns and bends. But help them to make the best of whatever comes their way.

Help them to continue to enjoy each other as they did when they first met. Help them to realize that nothing nor no one is perfect and to look for the good in all things and all people including themselves.

Help them to respect each other’s likes and dislikes, opinions and beliefs, hopes and dreams and fears even though they may not always understand them.

Help them to learn from each other and to help each other to grow mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

Help them to realize that no matter what happens to them they will hold on to each other and know that things have a way of working out for the good.

Help them to create for their children a peaceful, stable home of love as a foundation on which they can build their lives.

But most of all, dear God, help them to keep lit the torch of love’ that they now share so that by their loving example they may pass on the light of love to their children and to their children’s children forever.

Amen

Wedding Prayer 2:

1st Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud.

Love is never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not demand it’s own way.

Love is not irritable or touchy. Love does not hold grudges and will hardly notice when others do it wrong.

Love is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out. If you love someone, you will be loyal to them no matter what the costs.

You will always believe in them, always expect the best in them, and will always stand your ground in defending them.

 Wedding Prayer 3:

John 4:7-12

Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is born of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God—for God is love.

God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love has been brought to full expression through us.

Wedding Prayer 4:

Ephesians

Brothers and sisters:
Live in love, as Christ loved us
and handed himself over for us.
Husbands, love your wives,
even as Christ loved the Church
and handed himself over for her to sanctify her,
cleansing her by the bath of water with the word,
that he might present to himself the Church in splendor,
without spot or wrinkle or any such thing,
that she might be holy and without blemish.
So also husbands should love their wives as their own bodies.
He who loves his wife loves himself.
For no one hates his own flesh
but rather nourishes and cherishes it,
even as Christ does the Church,
because we are members of his Body.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.
This is a great mystery,
but I speak in reference to Christ and the Church.
The word of the Lord.

Wedding Prayer 5:

Let Us Be Grateful

Let us be grateful for the capacity to see, feel, hear, and understand.

Let us be grateful for this incredible gift of life.

Let us be especially grateful for the ties of love which bind us together, giving dignity, meaning, worth and joy to all our days.

This is indeed a day which the Lord has made.

Let us rejoice in it and be glad, and let us count our many blessings.

Wedding Prayer 6:

Blessing For A Marriage

May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.

May you always need one another -- not so much to fill your emptiness as to help you know your fullness.

A mountain needs a valley to be complete;

the valley does not make the mountain less but more;

and the valley is more a valley

because it has a mountain towering over it.

So let it be with you and you.

May you need one another, but not out of weakness.

May you want one another, but not out of lack.

May you entice one another, but not compel one another.

May you succeed in all important ways with one another, and not fail in the little graces.

May you look for things to praise, often say, “I love you!” and take no notice of small faults.

If you have quarrels that push you apart, may both of you hope to have good sense enough to take the first step back.

May you enter into the mystery which is the awareness of one another’s presence -- no more physical than spiritual, warm and near when you are side by side, and warm and near when you are in separate rooms or even distant cities.

May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy.

May you have love, and may you find it loving one another!

Wedding Prayer 7:

Behold our family

Lord, behold our family here assembled.

We thank you for this place in which we dwell,

for the love that unites us,

for the peace accorded us this day,

for the hope with which we expect the morrow,

for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful;

for our friends in all parts of the earth.

Amen

Wedding Prayer 8:

Instruments of your peace

Lord, make us instruments of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let us sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is discord, union;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

Where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, Grant that we may not so much seek

To be consoled as to console,

To be understood as to understand,

To be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Amen

Wedding Prayer 9:

Cherokee Prayer

God in heaven above please protect the ones we love.

We honour all you created as we pledge our hearts and lives together.

We honour mother-earth -- and ask for our marriage to be abundant

and grow stronger through the seasons;

We honour fire -- and ask that our union be warm and glowing with

love in our hearts; We honour wind -- and ask we sail though life safe and calm as in our father’s arms;

We honour water -- to clean and soothe our relationship -- that it may never thirsts for love;

With all the forces of the universe you created, we pray for harmony and true happiness as we forever grow young together.”

Wedding Prayer 10:

Father in heaven

“Father in heaven,

You ordained marriage for your children, and you gave us love.

We present to You _____ and _____, who come this day to be married.

May the covenant of love they make be blessed with true devotion and spiritual commitment.

We ask that You, God, will give them the ability to keep the covenant they have made.

When selfishness shows itself, grant generosity; when mistrust is a temptation, give moral strength;

when there is misunderstanding, give patience and gentleness; if suffering becomes a part of their lives, give them a strong faith and an abiding love.

Amen.

Wedding Prayer 11:

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor. If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

 

Wedding Prayer 12:

Irish Prayer

May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind always be at your back.

May the sun shine warm upon your face, and rains fall soft upon your fields.

May good luck be with you Wherever you go, and your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow.

May your days be many and your troubles be few.

May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, the foresight to know where you’re going and the insight to know when you’re going too far.

May you have love that never ends, lots of money, and lots of friends.

May you see your children’s children.

May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings.

May you know nothing but happiness from this day forward.

 

Wedding Prayer 13

Hawaiian Wedding Prayer

Bless this sacred union, this joyous day. In the gentle embrace of your tropical paradise, We gather here to witness love’s purest display.

Surrounded by the ocean’s soothing whispers, And the warm island breeze, May the spirits of Hawaii’s ancient ancestors Shower their blessings upon this couple with ease.

Grant them the strength of your mighty mountains, As they face life’s challenges side by side. May their love be a beacon of light and hope, Guiding them through every high and low tide.

Like the vibrant hibiscus and fragrant plumeria, May their love bloom and flourish each day. May it be as endless as the sparkling ocean, And as eternal as the sun’s golden ray.

May their journey together be filled with laughter, May their spirits dance to the rhythm of aloha. May their love be a harmonious melody, Resonating with the joy of the ukulele and hula.

As they exchange their sacred vows of commitment, May their hearts be forever intertwined. May they cherish and honor one another, With love that is pure, selfless, and kind. 

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