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Wedding Prayers

Based on the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, make us instruments of your peace
Where there is hatred, let us sow love
Where there is injury, let us bring the spirit of forgiveness
Where there is discord, let us bring harmony
Where there is doubt, let us bring faith
Where there is despair, let us bring hope
Where there is darkness, let us bring light
Where there is sadness, let us bring joy
For it is in giving that we receive
It is in forgiving that we are forgiven
It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Wedding Prayer of the Bride and the Groom for Each Other

Lord Jesus, grant that I and my spouse may have a true and understanding love for each other. Grant that we may both be filled with faith and trust. Give us the grace to live with each other in peace and harmony.

May we always bear with one another’s weaknesses and grow from each other’s strengths. Help us to forgive one another’s failings and grant us patience, kindness, cheerfulness and the spirit of placing the well-being of one another ahead of self.

May the love that brought us together grow and mature with each passing year.  Bring us both ever closer to You through our love for each other. Let our love grow to perfection.
Amen

Prayer for the Couple

Oh Lord, we thank you
For the union of hearts of our dear [John] and [Mary]
On this special day, their wedding day.
Heaven sings in triumph
For a new love shall unveil
The glory of your name.

Dear Father, we sincerely pray
That you bless this couple
With a love to last forever.

In sickness and in health
May they find your strength
In doubts and troubles
May they see your light
In hurts and failures
May they find your pardon
In loneliness and desperation
May they find your joy.

Also we pray, that you bless them with a family
So blissful, prosperous and ever healthy
And above all, filled with love, faith and hope
That is founded on you.

A Wedding Prayer

On this our wedding day,
We pray that God be near,
To guide us in each thing we say,
And give us fruitful years.

We pledge to live our lives in love,
To always serve Him true,
That He might dwell within our hearts,
And guide us faithfully through.

On this our wedding day,
We feel His love so near,
We seek to live within His way,
Throughout life's joys and tears,
God grant us now His perfect peace,
And bless our home with love,
That others may see the sweet release,
That's given from above.

On this our wedding day,
Please join us in this prayer,
May each one that is here today,
Seek peace through God somewhere,
For God looks into each ones heart,
To find the good that's there,
And wants His seed of love to start,
His glorious love to share.

On this our wedding day,
May God, His spirit send,
To dwell with us within our home,
Our lives with His to blend,
We seek His blessing for each day,
To help us grow in Him,
Among our friends, in His own way,
We'll give all praise to Him.

On this our wedding day,
We pledge to God our love,
As we united stand as one,
And lift His name above,
That all the world may see and know,
We seek His will divine,
That through our lives, God may show,
His will through passing time.

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A Wedding Prayer
By Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

 

Catholic Wedding Prayer (A)

Holy Father in heaven,
hear our prayers for [John] and [Mary]
who today are united in marriage in your presence.
Give them your blessing, and strengthen their love for each other.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.   Amen.

Catholic Wedding Prayer (B)

Almighty God,
hear our prayers for [John] and [Mary] who have come here today
to be united in the sacrament of marriage.  Increase their faith in you and in each other, and through them bless your Church.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.    Amen.

Catholic Wedding Prayer (C)

Father, when you created mankind
you willed that man and wife should be one.
Bind [John] and [Mary]
in the loving union of marriage; and make their love fruitful
so that they may be living witnesses to your divine love in the world.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.    Amen.

A Christian Wedding Prayer

Oh God of love, you have established marriage for the welfare and happiness, of mankind.  Yours was the plan and only with you can we work it out with joy. You have said, "It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a help-meet for him."  Now our joys are doubled since the happiness of one is the happiness of the other.  Our burdens now are halved since when we share them, we divide the load.

Bless this husband.  Bless him as provider of nourishment and raiment and sustain him in all the exaction's and pressures of his battle for bread.  May his strength be her protection, his character be her boast and her pride, and may he so live that she will find in him the haven for which the heart of a woman truly longs.

Bless this loving wife.  Give her a tenderness that will make her great, a deep sense of understanding and a great faith in you.  Give her that inner beauty of soul that never fades, that eternal youth that is found in holding fast the things that never age.

Teach them that marriage is not living merely for each other; it is two uniting and joining hands to serve you.   Give them a great spiritual purpose in life.  May they seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and the other things shall be added unto them.

May they not expect that perfection of each other that belongs alone to you.  May they minimize each other's weaknesses, be swift to praise and magnify each other's points of comeliness and strength, and see each other through a lover's kind and patient eyes.

Now make such assignments to them on the scroll of your will as will bless them and develop their characters as they walk together. Give them enough tears to keep them tender, enough hurts to keep them humane, enough of failure to keep their hands clenched tightly in yours, and enough of success to make them sure they walk with God.

May they never take each other's love for granted, but 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, my they be found then as now still hand in hand, still thanking God for each other. May they serve you happily, faithfully, together, until at least one shall lay the other in the arms of God.   Amen.

Catholic Wedding Prayer in Spanish (B)

Padre, tu has hecho el lazo del matrimonio
un misterio santo, un simbolo del amor de Cristo por su Iglesia.
Escucha nuestras oraciones por [Juan] y [Maria].
Con fe en ti y en cada uno ellos hoy te prometen su amor.  Que sus vidas siempre den testimonio de la realidad de ese amor.
Te lo pedimos por Jesucristo, tu Hijo,
quien vive y reina contigo y el Espiritu Santo,
un Dios, por los siglos de los siglos.    Amen.

Catholic Wedding Prayer in Spanish (B)

Dios nuestro, que al crear el género humano estableciste la union
entre el hombre y la mujer, une en la fidelidad del amor a estos hijos tuyos
que van a contraer matrimonio, para que siempre sean testigos del amor divino
que hoy los trae en tu presencia.
Por Jesucristo nuestro Senor. Amen.

Catholic Wedding Prayer in Spanish (C)

Dios todopoderoso, escucha nuestras oraciones por [Juan] y [Maria],
quienes han venido aquí para unirse en el sacramento del matrimonio.
Aumenta su fe en ti y en cada uno y por medio de ellos bendice a tu Iglesia

Te lo pedimos por Jesucristo nuestro Senor.   Amen.

Catholic Wedding Prayer in Spanish (D)

Padre, cuando creaste a la humanidad
tu quisiste que el hombre y la mujer fueran uno. Une a [Juan] y [Maria]
en la union amorosa del matrimonio; y haz que ese amor de frutos
para que sean testigos vivientes de tu amor divino en el mundo.
Te lo pedimos por Jesucristo nuestro Senor.   Amen.

A Marriage Prayer

Lord, help us to remember when we first met and the strong love that grew between us.
To work that love into practical things so nothing can divide us.
We ask for words both kind and loving,
and for hearts always ready to ask forgiveness as well as to forgive.
Dear Lord, we put our marriage into your hands.
Amen.

Apache Wedding Prayer

Now you will feel no rain,
For each of you will be shelter to the other.

Now you will feel no cold,
For each of you will be warmth to the other.

Now you are two bodies,
But there is only one life before you.

Go now to your dwelling place
To enter into the days of your togetherness
And may your days be good and long upon the earth.

Wedding Dinner Blessing

Lord God, Creator of the universe, Father of us all, we have gathered here around this dinner table to celebrate the love and commitment that have united __________ and _______ in a wonderful bond of marriage.  Bless, oh Father, this food that we are about to receive with grateful hearts as a sign of your continuous bounty and providence.  May your generous blessing descend also upon these newly married spouses, their families and friends present here at this joyful banquet.  We make this prayer with confidence in the name of Jesus our Lord and Savior, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever.  Amen.

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