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5:30 -- Entire wedding party dressed and
in sanctuary for pictures
6:45 -- Wedding party in annex
6:55 -- Solo(s)
7:00 -- Seating of Honored Guests
Begin Processional Music
1. Seat groom's grandmother
2. Seat bride's grandmother
3. Seat groom's parents
4. Seat bride's mother
Begin Processional
1. Pastor and Groom enter from side
2. Groomsmen and Bridesmaids
3. Maid/Matron of Honor and Best Man
4. Flower Girl and Ring Bearer
Begin Wedding March
Prayer
Congregation asked to be seated
Initial Remarks
SAMPLE -- We are gathered here in the
sight of God and these witnesses to unite Bill and Sue in holy
matrimony. As believers in Jesus Christ, they recognize that it was God
who instituted marriage, and who said, "It is not good for man to be
alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." The God who made and
redeemed them also instituted this relationship they are about to enter.
__________ and _________, the vows you
are about to take are not to be taken without careful thought and
prayer. For in them you are committing yourselves exclusively the one to
the other for as long as you both shall live. This love is not to be
diminished by difficult circumstances, and it is only to be dissolved by
death.
As God's children by faith in Jesus
Christ, the relationship of marriage is especially meaningful. Certainly
it is possible for non-believers to marry, but only members of God's
family by faith in Jesus Christ can ever experience the joy and
fulfillment which God intends for marriage to have. Let me remind you,
Bill and Sue, your home will never be what God intends for it to be if
you leave Him out of your relationship. As you are obedient to the Word
of God, and allow God to control your relationship, your home will be
the place off joy and testimony to the world that God intends.
Giving Away of the Bride
See Sample Wedding Ceremonies
Scripture Reading
Congregational Hymn or Solo
(Flower girl and ring bearer sit down)
Congregational Hymn
Wedding Party Moves to Platform
(Bride and groom faces one another)
Wedding Vows
See Sample Wedding Vows and Sample
Wedding Ceremonies
Ring Vows
See Sample Wedding Vows and Sample
Wedding Ceremonies
Pronouncement
For as much as ________ and _________
have consented together in holy wedlock, and have witnessed the same
before God and these witnesses, and thereto have pledged their
faithfulness each to the other, and have pledged the same by the giving
and receiving each of a ring, by the authority invested in me as a
minister of the gospel according to the laws of the State of
____________, I pronounce that they are husband and wife together, in
the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Those
that God has joined together, let no man put assunder.
Prayer
Join with me as we ask God's blessing on
this new formed family unit. Shall we pray?
Eternal Father, creator, redeemer, lover
of our souls, we now turn to you, and as the first act of this couple in
their newly formed union. We as you to protect their home. May they
always turn to you for guidance, for strength, for provision, for
direction. May they glorify you in the choices they make, in the
ministries they involve themselves in, in all that they do. Use them to
draw others to yourself, and let them stand as a testimony to the world
of your faithfulness. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen
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