Christian Wedding Ceremony Script 3

This is a shorter and simpler version of Formal Wedding Ceremony 9.  You can always change this to suit your needs as well!  

Christian Wedding Ceremony Script 3

Welcome to this celebration of love and the blessing of the new life being joined together by the marriage of Name and Name. They have come to dedicate themselves to God and to each other, and with His eternal help, to fashion their house into a home, their family into a unity of His Kingdom, and to achieve within their lives a hint of eternity. Name and Name have come to publicly proclaim their love and devotion through holy marriage.

Name and Name, because this is a special day, we want to begin it in a special way, and that is with a moment of prayer. I’m going to ask that you close your eyes and turn within yourselves. And now, call forth that divine presence from within you, knowing that as you do so, God’s blessings are now being poured out upon you both. “Through the presence and power and the activity of God within you, we now see you blessed with an abundance of all good. We see your minds illumined by divine wisdom, your hearts quickened by divine love and your bodies purified and blessed with divine substance. This we do affirm through the power of the living presence of God within each of you.” Amen.

True marriage is more than the joining of two persons in the bonds of matrimony. In its right relationship, it is the uniting of two souls already attuned to each other. When such a true bond already exists between a man and a woman, it is proper that an outer acknowledgment be made. This acknowledgment is the prime objective of the ceremony.

We are here to bear witness to the entry of these two loving friends, who are already one in spirit, into the closer relationship of a married couple. Name and Name you are now taking into your care and keeping the happiness of one in the world, whom you love most dear, and the dynamic flow of love is the heart of marriage. This love emerges from, responds to, and is fellowship with God and each other. It is the challenge to create an atmosphere of freedom in which you both can develop your potential. It is working together in an attitude of service for common goals. It is sharing from the depths of your being in the understanding presence of each other. It is a union of persons that respects individuality. It is the covenant of love which accepts weakness as well as strength.

You are adding to your life not only the affection and the response that your hearts desire, not only the happy companionship of hours together but a deeper trust as well. It is the implied trust of loving. You are finding in each other that which complements your life. You are agreeing to be a tower of strength to one another. You are agreeing to carry a part of each other’s responsibilities. You are entering on an adventure of pure faith in which you give of yourselves to the utmost.

Listen to the words of the Apostle Paul, and let them fill your hearts:

“If I speak with the eloquence of men and of angels but have no love, I become no more than blaring brass or crashing cymbal. If I have the gift of foretelling the future and hold in my mind not only all of human knowledge but the very secrets of God, and if I also have that absolute faith that can move mountains but have no love, I amount to nothing at all. If I dispose of all that I possess, yes, even if I give my own body to be burned but have no love, I achieve precisely nothing.
This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience – it looks for a way of being constructive. It is not possessive: it is neither anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance. Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage. It is not touch. It does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen. In this life, we have three great lasting qualities – faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

Vows

Name and Name, on this day, do you affirm the love that the two of you share, looking to the future to deepen and strengthen it? Will you affirm that love in plenty and in want, in sickness and in health, in failure and in triumph? Together will you dream and break bread?  When you stumble, will you restore one another?  Will you share all things, serving one another and your fellow man?  Will you cherish and respect, comfort, and encourage one another?  Be open with one another, and stay with one another as long as you both shall live, bound by your love?

Name do you choose Name to be your wife/husband/partner in life, your friend, and your love?

Name do you choose Name to be your wife/husband/partner in life, your friend, and your love?
 

May I have the rings, please?

These rings are a symbol of the truth of the vows you have spoken. These rings represent the eternal love of God that lives in you and in the love that you share.

Exchange of rings

Name and Name as you place these rings on each other's fingers, you are giving them as a symbol of your love and the continuing affirmation of the vows you have spoken and affirmed.  


Let us pray with the words of Paul.

“I want you to be happy in the Lord; let your tolerance be evident to everyone. The Lord is very near, and there is no need to worry. But if there is anything you need, pray for it, asking God for it with prayer and thanksgiving, and that peace of God, which is so much greater than we can understand, will guard your hearts and thoughts in Christ Jesus. Amen.”

Name and Name, the two of you have pledged yourselves to each other before God. In the name of the Holy Spirit, who performs every true marriage, I now pronounce that you are married!

You may seal this marriage with a kiss….
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