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for as long as they shall live."
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Formal Wedding
Blessings
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Blessings
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About Wedding Blessings
by
Mariano Tomaszewski
Copyright © 2006. All rights reserved.
Wedding blessing is
a form of prayer uttered on behalf of the couple either by the wedding
officiant or the family members of the bride and the groom. Typically,
it’s the officiant who pronounces the blessing. In some cultures it
might be also the parents who say the blessing over either their own
child or over both their child and his or her spouse to be. While the
priest, minister, or rabbi would say the official blessing most likely
during the wedding ceremony, the parental marriage blessing might be
pronounced before, during, or after the ceremony.
As a prayer wedding
blessings contain the elements of 1) entreaty on behalf of the couple
directed to God, and 2) good wishes offered for the spouses that are
submitted to a Higher Power for their fulfillment. In this way wedding
/ marriage
blessing assumes a form of an intercessory prayer. Because of its
references to God as the Power, Assistant, and Reinforces of good things
for the bride and the groom, the wedding blessing has a spiritual and
religious character. There are other beautiful expressions of good
wishes to the couple just beginning their marriage that don’t contain
any direct invocation to or a mentioning of God. A typical example of
such a blessing is the so-called “Apache Wedding Blessing.” From the
theological perspective it is rather questionable whether good words or
wishes devoid of the concept of God or a Higher Power should be called a
“blessing.” Nonetheless, such a “secular blessing,” a paradox
indeed, can beautifully fit into the wedding ceremony.
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