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their love for each other be strong, beautiful, energizing, and
resplendent
for as long as they shall live."
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Formal Wedding
Prayers
Personal
(Informal) Wedding Prayers
Other Wedding
Prayers
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About Wedding Prayers
by Mariano Tomaszewski
Copyright © 2006. All rights reserved.
There are a variety of wedding prayers, different
classifications and distinctive contexts in which these prayers may be
either formally enunciated or privately offered. This website focuses on
Catholic wedding prayers, Christian wedding prayers, wedding dinner
prayer, and other spiritual utterances that fit into a Judeo-Christian
or a non-denominational wedding environment.
The major distinction between various wedding or
marriage related prayers might be seen in their formal or personal
character. Formal or official wedding ceremony prayers are those
expressed by the officiant, that is, a priest, minister, rabbi.
Certainly, wedding officiants may improvise or write a unique prayer or
prayers for a specific wedding ceremony. Depending on the degree to
what your church, or officiant is “traditional” or “conservative,”
wedding prayers might be read from liturgical texts of a particular
denomination. For example, in Roman Catholic churches wedding prayers,
whether there is a full wedding Mass or just a nuptial ceremony are
fixed and adopted to various moments of the celebration. Thus, there
are formal Catholic wedding prayers at the beginning of the ceremony, at
various steps during the ceremony, and the conclusive prayer at the
end. Wedding Mass involves several prayers that strictly speaking
belong to the celebration of the Mass and some prayers specifically
composed for the celebration of a Catholic marriage. Among these formal
prayers are the Opening Prayer, Prayer over the Gifts, Prayer after
Communion, the Blessing of the Rings, Nuptial Blessing, the Lord’s
Prayer, Final Blessing, etc. In its formal aspect Catholic wedding
prayers resemble wedding prayers officially pronounced in other major
Christian denominations on the occasions of marriage (e.g., Anglican,
Episcopal, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, etc.).
Wedding Ceremony Center offers several examples of
formal wedding prayers. One might ask what is the use of listing them if it is the officiant who pronounces these prayers? Clergy members either know
these prayers by heart or have them in their wedding books. Yet, you as
the future bride or groom may also benefit from having a look or even
scrutinizing these prayerful texts. First of all, after reading and
briefly reflecting on various official wedding prayers you will get a
sense of what the Christian (Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, etc.)
understanding of the sacrament of marriage is, the meaning of matrimony,
the depth and the beauty of love that need to accompany the formal
commitment, and the ideal of God’s love for his people that should be
reflected in the love of husband and wife on their journey of married
life. Secondly, inspired by these official wedding prayers, you may
write you own formal wedding ceremony prayers and submit them to your officiant requesting that these prayers be used during your wedding.
Besides formal wedding and marriage prayers there
are private or personal thoughts or writings that individuals direct to
God on occasion of either their own or someone else’s wedding day. Even
though these are personal prayers they may be expressed publicly and
audibly during the ceremony or other moments during the wedding day.
Prayers of the bride and the groom (prayers of the spouses) and various
prayers for the spouses or on their behalf are the most popular among
these informal wedding prayers.
Wedding Ceremony Center, in addition to English,
offers wedding prayers, both formal and informal, in Spanish (wedding
prayers in Spanish, Spanish Catholic wedding prayers) and Italian
(wedding prayers in Italian, Italian Catholic wedding prayers).
Copyright © 2006 by Mariano Tomaszewski. All rights reserved under
U.S., and international law.
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the Contents or Structure of this website may be copied or
reproduced
without the expressed written permission from the
WeddingCeremonyCenter.com administration.
Any violation of this copyright will be vigorously pursued in a court of
law. Violators' sites will be tracked and shut down.
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