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CHURCH IN THE FOREST
PEBBLE BEACH, CALIFORNIA
<> Wedding Ceremony Worksheet
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Please print this form and mail your
choices to Church in the Forest upon securing
your wedding confirmation by the Wedding
Coordinator
Bride and Groom:
____________________________________________________________
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Wedding Date and Time:
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Where:
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Rehearsal Date and Time:
_______________________________________________________
Wedding Coordinator:
_________________________________________________________
ORDER OF SERVICE
The order of service is to assist you in identifying what
you would like to have in your wedding service. While there
are many parts, the object is to have a flow to the service
which would look seamless and authentic. The wedding itself
is YOUR wedding and is most beautiful, when it best reflects
who you are as individuals. Be as creative and personalize
the material as you want in the planning of your wedding.
Keep in mind that there are three basic elements that you
and I would be looking for in your marriage service. They
are dignity, warmth and beauty, and together we will
endeavor to make it the experience which will live in your
hearts always.
Prelude music
Solo (optional)
Processional
The Question of "Who presents?"
Welcome on behalf of the couple
Call to Worship
Prayer of Invocation
Introductory Statement of the Nature of Christian
Marriage
Declarations of Intent
Affirmation of Families
Scripture
Sermon or Homily (a short 3-4 minute explanation of the
readings and how they apply to your marriage (optional)
Exchanges of Vows
Exchange of Rings
Solo (optional)
The lighting of the Unity Candle
The Wedding Prayer
Pronouncement of Marriage
The charge or the Sending Forth
The Benediction
The introduction of the couple
Recessional
PLEASE ENCIRCLE YOUR CHOICE FROM EACH SET OF OPTIONS
GIVEN:
PRELUDE:
PROCESSIONAL:
The Question, 'Who presents?'
Welcome
A-1 CALL TO WORSHIP:
We are gathered here to worship God and to witness the
marriage vows of Bride and Groom. Let your light so shine
before people that they may see your good works and give
glory to your Father who is in heaven. Let us worship
God.
A-2 CALL TO WORSHIP:
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and
you who love are born of God and know God. Let us worship
God.
A-3 CALL TO WORSHIP:
Let us join in celebration. We have been invited to share
the joy of this day with Bride and Groom. We are their
family and friends, and together we form a community to
worship God and to witness their wedding. Let us worship God
together.
A-4 CALL TO WORSHIP:
Except the Lord build the house, they that build it labor in
vain. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven
and earth. Let us worship God.
A-5 CALL TO WORSHIP:
God is love and those who abide in love, abide in God and
God abides in them.
B-1 PRAYER OF INVOCATION:
Dear God, source of all joy and happiness, we rejoice that
through your
providence Groom and Bride now stand before you and these
friends to enter into the honorable estate of marriage.
Bless this day, and make it their special day. And may all
of us here experience something of the same joy and the love
that they so tenderly share. In Christ's name we pray.
Amen.
B-2 PRAYER OF INVOCATION:
Almighty and ever blessed God, whose presence is the
happiness of every
condition, and whose favor hallows every relation, we
beseech thee to be present and favorable unto these thy
servants, that they may be truly joined in the honorable
estate of marriage, in the covenant of their God. As thou
hast brought them together by thy providence, sanctify them
by thy Spirit, giving them a new frame of heart fit for
their new estate; and enrich them with all grace, whereby
they may enjoy the comforts, undergo the cares, endure the
trials, and perform the duties of life together as becometh
Christians, under thy heavenly guidance and protection;
through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
B-3 PRAYER OF INVOCATION:
Gracious God, you are always faithful in your love for us.
Look mercifully on N. and N., who come seeking your
blessing. Let your Holy Spirit rest on them so that with
steadfast love they may honor the promises they make
today,through Jesus Christ our Lord.
C-1 INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT:
Bride and Groom, today is a day that will change your lives
forever, for today, you formally and publicly enter into a
covenant relationship. Christ instructs those who enter into
this relationship to cherish a mutual esteem and love; to
bear with each other's infirmities and weaknesses; to
comfort each other in sickness, trouble, and sorrow; in
honesty and industry to provide for each other; to pray for
and encourage each other in things which pertain to God; and
to live together as the heirs of the grace of life.
The church sees marriage as a covenant, a covenant
between yourselves and a covenant with God. In this special
union you are saying, "Yes, yes, yes" to each other in a
unique way: "Yes--I will spend the rest of my life with you.
Yes--we depend on a love beyond our own to sustain our love,
knowing that to continue to love has its source in God, who
is love. You are saying yes, we want our family and many
friends with us here today, and that you will continue to
live together in the awareness that others count on you and
you count on them. For the light shed by a good marriage
illuminates all relationships.Yes, our love will continue
after the fuel that has fired our romance has settled into
an even flame. Yes, I do love you and I shall love you."
As you say yes to each other in this way, God is saying
yes to the both of you.
As Jesus Christ has blessed this relationship, and as it
has been declared holy throughout the life of His church,
you who promise each to the other are promised God's help as
you enter into the joys and responsibilities of life
together.
Bride and Groom, I and all who are with you today
wish you the responsibility to grow, to change, to surprise
each other with joy, to wonder at the miracle of marriage,
to be filled with affection and laughter.
C-2 INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT:
Dearly beloved, we are assembled here in the presence of
God, to join this man and this woman in holy marriage, which
is instituted by God, regulated by God's commandments,
blessed by our Lord Jesus Christ, to be held in honor among
all people. Let us therefore reverently remember that God
has established and sanctified marriage for the welfare and
happiness of all humankind. Our Savior has declared that a
man shall leave his father and mother and cleave unto his
wife. By his apostles he has instructed those who enter into
this relation to cherish a mutual esteem and love; to bear
with each other's infirmities and weaknesses; to comfort
each other in sickness, trouble, and sorrow; in honesty and
industry to provide for each other and for their household
in temporal things; to pray for an encourage each other in
the things which pertain to God; and to live together as the
heirs of the grace of life itself.
C-3 INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT:
Bride and Groom have come to make their marriage vows
in the presence of God and of this congregation. Let us now
witness their promises to each other and surround them with
our prayers, giving thanks to God for the gift of marriage
and asking God's blessing upon them, so that they may be
strengthened for their life together and nurtured in their
love for God.
God created us male and female, and given us marriage so
that husband and wife may help and comfort each other, in
joy and in sorrow, in sickness and in health, throughout all
their days.
God has given us marriage for the full expression of the
love between a man and a woman. In marriage a woman and a
man give support to each other, with affection and
tenderness freely giving themselves to each other.
God has given us marriage for the well-being of human
society, for the ordering of family life, and for the birth
and nurture of children.
God has given us marriage as holy mystery in which a man
and a woman are joined together, and become one, just as
Christ is one with the church.
In marriage, husband and wife are called to a new way of
life, created, ordered, and blessed by God. This way of life
must not be entered into carelessly, or from selfish
motives, but responsibly, and prayerfully.
C-4 INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT:
We gather in the presence of God to give thanks for the gift
of marriage, to witness the joining together of N. and N.,
to surround them with our prayers and to ask God's blessing
upon them, so that they may be strengthened for life
together, and nurtured in their love for each other and for
God.
D-1 DECLARATION OF INTENT:
Groom, wilt thou have this woman to be thy wedded
wife, to live together
after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt
thou love her, comfort her, honor, and keep her in sickness
and in health; and, forsaking all others, keep thee only
unto her, as long as ye both shall live?
Bride, wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded
husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy
estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love him, comfort him, honor,
and keep him in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all
others, keep thee only unto him, as long as you both shall
live?
D-2 DECLARATION OF INTENT:
Groom, will you have this woman to be your wife, to
live together in holy marriage? Will you love her, comfort
her, honor and keep her, in sickness and in health, and
forsaking all others, be faithful to her as longas you both
shall live?
Bride, will you have this man to be your husband,
to live together in holy marriage? Will you love him,
comfort him, honor and keep him in sickness and in health,
and forsaking all others, be faithful to him as long as you
both shall live?
D-3 DECLARATION OF INTENT:
Groom, will you have this woman to be your wife, and
will you pledge yourself to her in all love and honor, in
all duty and service, in all faith and tenderness, to live
with her, and cherish her, according to the ordinance of
God, in the holy bond of marriage?
Bride, will you have this man to be your husband,
and will you pledge yourself to him in all love and honor,
in all duty and service, in all faith and tenderness, to
live with him, and cherish him, according to the ordinance
of God, in the holy bond of marriage?
D-4 DECLARATION OF INTENT:
Groom/Bride, will you take Bride, to be your wife
(husband), and will you be faithful to her, love her, honor
her, live with her, and cherish her, according to the
commandments of God, in the holy bond of marriage?
D-5 DECLARATION OF INTENT:
Groom/Bride, do you come here freely to take Bride as
your wife (husband), according to the commandments of God in
holy marriage?
D-6 DECLARATION OF INTENT:
Groom/Bride having heard how God has created,
ordered, and blessed the covenant of marriage, do you affirm
your desire and intention to enter this covenant?
D-7 DECLARATION OF INTENT:
Groom/Bride, do you take N. to be your wife
(husband), to live together in the holy bond of married
life? Do you promise to honor and uphold her, and to join
with her in making a home that shall endure in love and
peace? Do you affirm your purpose of a deeper union with
her, whereby you both shall know joy and the fulfillment of
love? Do you pledge to her your complete faithfulness
through all the changing experiences of life? And, of your
own free volition, do you now give yourself to her
completely (body, mind, and soul) that from this day forth
you shall be hers alone as long as you both shall live?
D-8 DECLARATION OF INTENT:
Groom/Bride, wilt thou have N. to be thy wedded wife
(husband), to live together after God's ordinance in the
holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her,
honor, and keep her in sickness and in health; and,
forsaking all others, keep thee only unto her, so long as
you both shall live?
E-1 AFFIRMATION OF THE FAMILIES:
Will you, the parents of Groom and Bride do
all in your power to uphold their marriage in the years
ahead, and will you promise to pray for and encourage them
that they may fulfill the vows they are making today?
We will.
E-2 AFFIRMATION OF THE FAMILIES:
Names of Family Members, do you give your blessing to
Groom and Bride, and promise to do everything
in your power to uphold them in their marriage?
"We give our blessing and promise our loving support," or
"We do."
F-1 SCRIPTURE:
Matthew 5:13-16: "You are the salt of the earth; but if the
salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be
restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be
thrown out and trodden under foot by men.
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill
cannot be hid. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a
bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the
house. Let your light so shine before men that they may see
your good works and give glory to your Father who is in
heaven."
F-2 SCRIPTURE:
John 15:9-12: "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved
you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will
abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's
commandments and abide in his love. These things I have
spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy
may be full. This is my commandment, that you love one
another as I have loved you."
F-3 SCRIPTURE:
John 2:1-11: "On the third day there was a marriage at Cana
in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; Jesus also
was invited to the marriage, with his disciples. When the
wine failed, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no
wine." And Jesus said to her, "O woman, what have you to do
with me?; My hour has not yet come." His mother said to the
servants, "Do whatever He tells you."
Now six stone jars were standing there, for the Jewish
rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty
gallons. Jesus said to them, "Fill the jars with water." And
they filled them up to the brim. And he said to them, "Now
draw some out, and take it to the steward of the feast." So
they took it. When the steward of the feast tasted the water
now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though
the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward of
the feast called the bridegroom and said to him, "Every man
serves the good wine first; and when men have drunk freely,
then the poor wine; but you have kept the good wine until
now." This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in
Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples
believed in Him."
F-4 SCRIPTURE:
I Corinthians 13:1-13: "If I speak in the tongues of humans
and even that of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy
gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers,
and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I
have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not
love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I
deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain
nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or
boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist
on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful, it does
not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears
all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures
all things.
Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away;
as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will
pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy
is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will
pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I
thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became
an adult, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a
mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part;
then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully
understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the
greatest of these is love."
F- 5 SCRIPTURE:
Colossians 3:12-17: "Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy
and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and
patience, forbearing one another, and, if one has a
complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord
has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all
these, put on love, which binds everything together in
perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your
hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And
be thankful.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach
and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing
Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in
your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do
everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to
God the Father through him."
F-6 SCRIPTURE:
Philippians 2:1-11: "So, if there is any encouragement in
Christ, any incentive of love, any participation in the
Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being
of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord
and of one mind.
Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility
count others better than yourselves. Let each of you look
not only to his own interest, but also to the interests of
others. Have this mind among yourselves, which you have in
Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not
count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied
himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the
likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled
himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a
cross.
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him
the name which is above every name, that at that name of
Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and
under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ
is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
F-7 SCRIPTURE:
I John 4:7-12: "Beloved, let us love one another; for love
is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. He
who does not love does not know God; for God is love. In
this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God
sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live
through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that
He loved us and sent His Son to be the expiation for our
sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one
another. No man has ever seen God; if we love one another,
God abides in us and his love is perfected in us."
F-8 SCRIPTURE:
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
"For everything there is a season, and a time for every
matter under heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die,
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
a time to kill, and a time to build up.
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones
together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
a time to rend, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace."
F-9 SCRIPTURE:
Song of Solomon: 2:10-17
"My beloved speaks and says to me:
'Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away;
for lo, the winter is past,
the rain is over and gone.
The flowers appear on the earth,
the time of singing has come,
and the voice of the turtledove
is heard in our land.
The fig tree puts forth its figs,
and the vines are in blossom;
they give forth fragrance.
Arise, my love, my fair one
and come away.
O my dove, in the clefts of the rock,
in the covert of the cliff,
let me see your face,
let me hear your voice,
for your voice is sweet,
and our face is comely.
Catch us the foxes,
the little foxes,
that spoil the vineyards,
for our vineyards are in blossom."
My beloved is mine and I am his,
he pastures his flock among the lilies,
and the shadows flee,
turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle,
or a young stag upon rugged mountains."
Other scriptures which are appropriate in a marriage service
include:
Proverbs 3:3-6. Psalm 67. Psalm 100. Psalm 103:1-5. Psalm
136:1-9, 26. Romans 12: -2, 9-18 Matthew 5:1-10.
SERMON/HOMILY:
G-1 EXCHANGE OF VOWS:
I, Groom/Bride, take you, Bride/Groom, to be
my wife/husband. I promise to
share with you life's sorrows and life's joys. I
promise to respect you and
acknowledge your respect for me, to forgive you and accept
your forgiveness.
I promise to accept and love you as an equal as long as we
both shall live.
G-2 EXCHANGE OF VOWS:
I, Groom/Bride, take thee, Bride/Groom, to be
my wedded wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day
forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in
sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death
do us part.
G-3 EXCHANGE OF VOWS:
I Groom/Bride take you Bride/Groom, to be my
wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for
better for worse, for richer and poorer, in sickness and in
health, to love and to cherish, until we are parted by
death. This is my solemn vow.
G-4 EXCHANGE OF VOWS:
Groom/Bride, take thee, Bride/Groom, to be my
wedded wife, and I do promise and covenant, before God and
these witnesses, to be thy loving and faithful husband, in
plenty and in want, in joy and in sorrow, in sickness and in
health, as long as we both shall live.
G-5 EXCHANGE OF VOWS:
Groom/Bide, I promise with God's help to be your
faithful husband/wife, to love and serve you as Christ
commands, as long as we both shall live.
G-6 EXCHANGE OF VOWS:
Bride/Groom I promise before God, our family, and
friends to be your loving and faithful husband/wife, to
share my life with you, in wealth and in poverty, in
sickness and in health, in good times and in bad times for
as long as we both shall live.
G-7 EXCHANGE OF VOWS:
I, Groom/Bride, take you, Bride/Groom, to be
my wife, and I promise before God and these friends that I
will share my life with you in all love and honor, in all
faith and tenderness, through joy and sorrow, in sickness
and health, as long as we both shall live.
G-8 EXCHANGE OF VOWS:
I, Groom/Bride, take you, Bride/Groom, to be my
wife/husband, I promise to be true to you in good times and
in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor
you all the days of my life.
G-9 EXCHANGE OF VOWS:
I take you into my very being to share with you life's
sorrows and joys. I promise to respect you and accept your
respect, to forgive you and accept your forgiveness, to
instill hope in you and be aware of the hope you instill in
me. I promise to accept the mystery of your uniqueness and
to love you as an equal.
G-10 EXCHANGE OF VOWS:
I, Groom/Bride, take thee Bride/Groom, to be
my wife/husband, and I promise before God and these friends
that I will share my life with you in all love and honor, in
all faith and tenderness, through joy and sorrow, in
sickness and health. I will love you and honor you all the
days of my life.
H-1 EXCHANGE OF RINGS-INTRODUCTION:
What symbols do you give these holy promises?
"These rings."
H-2 EXCHANGE OF RINGS-INTRODUCTION:
Do you have a token of these vows you have just made?
"We do."
I-1 EXCHANGE OF RINGS - PRAYER:
Bless, O Lord, this ring that he/she who gives it and she/he
who wears it may abide in thy peace, and continue in thy
favor, unto their life's end, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
I-2 EXCHANGE OF RINGS - PRAYER:
Eternal God, we pray for your blessing upon these rings that
they may be permanent reminders of holy promises and
steadfast love. Bless those who wear them that they may
remain in your favor throughout all their earthly life,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
I-3 EXCHANGE OF RINGS - PRAYER:
Eternal God, bless these rings that as Bride and
Groom wear them, they will be reminded of their faith
in you and their rich promises to each other. Let these
rings be symbols of a deep and unending love, through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Amen.
I-4 EXCHANGE OF RINGS - PRAYER:
Bless, O Lord, this ring, that he who gives it and she who
wears it may abide in thy peace, and continue in thy favor,
unto their life's end; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
J-1 EXCHANGE OF RINGS:
With this ring I thee wed, in the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
J-2 - EXCHANGE OF RINGS:
This ring I give thee in token and pledge of our constant
faith and abiding love.
J-3 - EXCHANGE OF RINGS:
This ring is the sign of my promise, and I give it to you in
the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit. Amen.
J-4 EXCHANGE OF RINGS:
Bride/Groom, this ring is the sign of my love and
faithfulness, and I give it to you in the name of the
Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
J-5 EXCHANGE OF RINGS:
Bride/Groom, receive this ring as an outward pledge
and symbol of my promise to fulfill these vows which we have
taken.
LIGHTING OF THE UNITY CANDLE(S)
Lighted by individual candles brought to it by the
wedding couple, the unity candle symbolized the coming
together of two families, two persons, two lives, two loves,
made one by God's blessing. The lighting of the unity candle
is a very old custom, the meaning of which is renewed by
each couple that enacts it, remembering that in God and
through Christ we are all made on global household of faith,
sustained always by Divine love.
K-1 - THE WEDDING PRAYER:
Most merciful and gracious God, bestow upon Bride and Groom
the seal of your divine approval. Bind them together with
the strength of the Holy Spirit that they may be joined with
an everlasting bond of ready forgiveness and sacrificial
love. Grant them grace, dear Lord, to fulfill the vows and
covenant made today.
We pray that Groom and Bride's lives will
be an adventure filled with the richness of a deeply shared
intimacy.
Give them wisdom and devotion to the ordering of their
common life, that each may be to the other a strength in
need, a counselor in perplexity, a comfort in sorrow, a
companion in joy.
Give them grace, when they hurt each other to recognize
and acknowledge their fault, and to seek each other's
forgiveness and yours.
Give them peace openly and honestly to express their
feelings and share their deepest selves.
Give them Spirit to foster personal and spiritual growth
that will lead to mutual fulfillment.
Make their life together a sign of Christ's love to our
broken world, that unity may overcome estrangement,
forgiveness heal guilt, and joy conquer despair.
Dear God, this is a magic moment for many. For parents
who have provided loving homes, proper guidance, and
increasing support, we give our thanks.
For brothers and sisters who are very close and have
cared in so many ways, we are grateful. And for friends who
have nurtured and helped us grow, we are thankful. Send the
richness of your presence upon all those who are in the
communion of joy with Groom and Bride on this their wedding
day.
Most Holy God, bless this marriage, and may all our lives
be lived in the fullness of love that comes from you. This
we pray through your Son. Amen.
K-2 THE WEDDING PRAYER:
Eternal God, creator and preserver of all life, author of
salvation and giver of all grace; look with favor upon the
world you have made and redeemed, and especially upon
Groom and Bride.
Grant that their wills may be so knit together in your
will, and their spirits in your Spirit, that they may grow
in love and peace with you and each other all the days of
their life.
Give them such fulfillment of their mutual love that they
may reach out in concern for others.
Give to them, if it is your will, the gift of children,
and the wisdom to bring them up to know you, to love you,
and to serve you.
Grant that all who have witnessed these vows today may
find their lives strengthened, and that all who are married
may depart with their own promises renewed.
Grant that the bonds of our common humanity, by which all
your children are united one to another, may be so
transformed by your Spirit that your peace and justice may
fill the earth, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
K-3 THE WEDDING PRAYER:
Eternal God, without your grace no promise is sure.
Strengthen Groom and Bride with patience,
kindness, gentleness, and all other gifts of your Spirit, so
that they may fulfill the vows they have made. Keep them
faithful to each other and to you. Fill them with such love
and joy that they may build a home of peace and welcome.
Guide them by your word to serve you all their days.
Enable us all, O God, in each of our homes and lives, to
do your will. Enrich us with your grace so that, encouraging
and supporting one another, we may serve those in need and
hasten the coming of peace, love, and justice on earth,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
LORD'S PRAYER
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy
kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in
heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our
debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the
kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
L-1 PRONOUNCEMENT OF MARRIAGE:
By the authority committed unto me as a minister of the
Church of Christ, I declare that Groom and
Bride are now husband and wife together, according to
the ordinance of God and the law of the state. In the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
L-2 PRONOUNCEMENT OF MARRIAGE:
Before God and in the presence of this congregation,
Groom and Bride have made their solemn vows to
each other. They have confirmed their promises by the
joining of hands, and by the giving and receiving of rings.
Therefore, by the power vested in me as a minister in the
Church of Christ, I proclaim that they are now husband and
wife.
M-1 CHARGE TO THE COUPLE:
As God's own people, clothe yourselves with compassion,
kindness, and patience, forgiving each other as the Lord has
forgiven you, and crown all these things with love, which
binds everything together in perfect harmony.
M-2 CHARGE TO THE COUPLE:
Whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name
of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God through him.
N-1 BLESSING AND BENEDICTION:
The grace of Christ attend you, the love of God surround
you, the Holy Spirit keep you, that you may live in faith,
abound in hope, and grow in love, both now and forevermore.
Amen.
N-2 BLESSING AND BENEDICTION:
The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face to
shine upon you and be gracious unto you; the Lord lift up
His countenance upon you and give you peace; both now and in
the life everlasting.
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