| 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 |
