Sample wedding Outline - From the Book of Common prayer

 

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Welcome by the Minister: Minister

Hymn

1. Praise, My Soul the King of Heaven;

To His feet thy tribute bring.

Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven,

Who like thee His praise should sing?

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise the everlasting King

2. Praise Him for His grace and favour

To our fathers in distress;

Praise Him, still the same for ever,

Slow to chide and swift to bless.

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Glorious in His faithfulness.

3. Father-like, He tends and spares us;

Well our feeble frame He knows;

In His hands He gently bears us,

Rescues us from all our foes.

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Widely as His mercy flows.

4. Angels in the height, adore Him;

Ye behold Him face to face;

Sun and moon, bow down before Him,

Dwellers all in time and space.

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise with us the God of grace!

Prayer- Minister

Almighty and Everlasting God, to You all hearts are open and all desires known. Direct, sanctify and govern our hearts and bodies in the ways of your laws and in the works of Your commandments; purify our thoughts through Your Holy Spirit, that we may love You with heart and mind and praise You as we ought : through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Wedding

Minister

<GROOM>, will you have <BRIDE> to be your wife? Will you live with her in obedience to God's will and purpose? Will you love her, honour her and care for her, in sickness and in health? Will you be faithful to her, and her alone, as long as you both shall live? I will

Minister

<BRIDE>, will you have <GROOM> to be your husband? Will you live with him in obedience to God's will and purpose? Will you love him, honour him and care for him, in sickness and in health? Will you be faithful to him, and him alone, as long as you both shall live? I will

Groom

I, <GROOME>, take you <BRIDE>,

to be my wife,

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,

As long as we both shall live,

According to the will and purpose of God,

And to this I give you my pledge.

Bride

I, <BRIDE>, take you <GROOM>,

to be my 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,

As long as we both shall live,

According to the will and purpose of God,

And to this I give you my pledge.

Minister

Bless, O Lord, these rings, given and received as a sign of love and faithfulness. Amen.

Groom

Receive this ring in token of my love and faithfulness

I honour you with my body,

And all my possessions I share with you.

Bride

I receive this ring as a sign of the love and faithfulness between us.

Bride

Receive this ring in token of my love and faithfulness

I honour you with my body,

And all my possessions I share with you.

Groom

I receive this ring as a sign of the love and faithfulness

between us.

Minister

As <GROOM> and <BRIDE> have consented together in Marriage, and have made their pledge to one another before God and this congregation, and have declared it by joining of hands, and by giving and receiving of rings, I declare that they are now husband and wife. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Those whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder.

God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, bless, preserve, and keep these your children; may the God of Love, mercy and grace fill your lives to overflowing; that you might be a witness to this generation and generations to come of His perfect Love, Grace and Peace; and that all might believe, praising the living God with life everlasting.

Prayers- Bride and Groom

Hymn

1. No eye has seen

and no ear has heard

and no mind has ever conceived

the glorious things that You have prepared

for every one who has believed:

You brought us near

and You called us your own

and made us joint heirs with Your Son

How high and how wide,

how deep and how long,

how sweet and how strong is Your love:

How lavish Your grace

How faithful Your ways,

how great is Your love, O Lord?

2. Objects of mercy, who should have known wrath,

we're filled with unspeakable joy

riches of wisdom unsearchable wealth

and the wonder of knowing Your voice

You are our treasure and our great

reward our hope and our glorious king.

How high and how wide,

how deep and how long,

how sweet and how strong is Your love:

How lavish Your grace

How faithful Your ways,

how great is Your love, O Lord?

1. My Lord, What Love is this

that pays so dearly,

That I , the guilty one,

may go free

Amazing Love, O what sacrifice

the Son of God, given for me

My debt He pays,

and my death He dies,

that I might live, that I might live.

2. And so they watched Him die,

despised, rejected:

But oh, the blood he shed

flowed for me

Amazing Love, O what sacrifice

the Son of God, given for me

My debt He pays,

and my death He dies,

that I might live, that I might live.

3. And now this love of Christ

shall flow like rivers;

Come wash your guilt away,

Live again!

Amazing Love, O what sacrifice

the Son of God, given for me

My debt He pays,

and my death He dies,

that I might live, that I might live.

Old Testament Reading

Deuteronomy 6:4-18 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant then when you eat and are satisfied, be careful that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land. Do not test the LORD your God as you did at Massah. Be sure to keep the commands of the LORD your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you.

Do what is right and good in the Lord's sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land that the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers,"

Hymn

1. O the deep, deep love of Jesus!

Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free;

rolling as a mighty ocean

in its fullness over me.

Underneath me, all around me,

is the current of Thy love;

leading onward, leading homeward,

to my glorious rest above.

2. O the deep, deep love of Jesus!

Spread His praise from shore to shore,

how He loveth, ever loveth,

changeth never, nevermore;

how He watches o'er His loved ones;

died to call them all His own;

how for them He intercedeth,

watches over them from the throne.

3. O the deep, deep love of Jesus!

Love of every love the best;

>tis an ocean vast of blessing,

>tis a haven sweet of rest.

O the deep, deep love of Jesus!

>tis a heaven of heavens to me;

and it lifts me up to glory,

for it lifts me up to Thee.

New Testament Reading

1 John 4:7-21 "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother."

Hymn

1. I give You all the honour

and praise that's due Your name,

for You are the king of Glory,

the creator of all things.

And I worship You,

I give my life to You,

I fall down on my knees

Yes, I worship You,

I give my life to You,

I fall down on my knees.

2. You have broken chains that bound me,

You've set this captive free,

I will lift my voice to praise Your name

for all eternity.

And we worship You,

We give our lives to You,

we fall down on our knees

Yes, we worship You,

we give our lives to You,

we fall down on our knees.

Sermon- A Real Love

Hymn

Be Thou my vision,

O Lord of my Heart;

Naught be all else to me,

save that Thou art.

Thou my best thought,

by day or by night,

waking or sleeping,

Thy presence my light.

Be Thou my wisdom,

Thou my true Word;

I ever with Thee,

Thou with me, Lord;

Though my great Father,

I Thy true son;

Thou in me dwelling,

and I with Thee one.

Be Thou my battle-shield,

sword for the fight,

be Thou my dignity,

Thou my delight.

Thou my soul's shelter,

Thou my high tower:

raise Thou me heavenward,

O Power of my power.

Riches I heed not,

nor man's empty praise,

Thou mine inheritance,

now and always:

Thou and Thou only,

first in my heart,

High King of heaven,

my treasure Thou art.

High King of heaven,

after victory won,

may I reach heaven's joys,

O Bright heaven's Sun!

Heart of my own heart,

whatever befall,

still be my vision,

O ruler of all.

Prayers

Hymn

O Breath of life,

come sweeping through us,

Revive your church with life and power;

O Breath of life, come, cleanse, renew us

And fit Thy church to meet this hour.

O Wind of God,

come bend us, break us

Till humbly we confess our need;

Then, in Thy tenderness

remake us, revive, restore:

for this we plead.

O Breath of love

come breathe within us,

Renewing thought and will and heart;

Come, love of Christ, afresh to win us,

Revive Thy church in every part!

Revive us, Lord; is zeal abating

While harvest fields are vast and white?

Revive us, Lord, the world is waiting,

Equip Thy church to spread the Light.

The Signing of the Register

Bride and groom depart 

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