Wedding Prayers by the Bride and Groom

Depending on your culture or religion, you may have several different options when it comes to what kinds of wedding prayers will be offered during your wedding ceremony. Sometimes, the officiant offers some personal and improvised wedding prayers or a specially written wedding prayer calling for the long life and never ending love for the bride and groom.  Other wedding customs have the officiant or other person with a role in the wedding ceremony, such as a family member of the bride and groom reading wedding prayers from a special book. A couple may be able to look through the different wedding prayers available to them, such as in one of these special prayer books and choose a prayer for their marriage, or they may write their own wedding prayers and give them to the officiant to read during their wedding ceremony. Still other cultures and religions have the couple offering their own wedding prayers to the Lord for His  blessings and favor upon their new marriage. This is what my husband and I did in our wedding ceremony, and I would advise it to anyone.

Setting the Scene

My husband and I are Independent Baptists, and so doing something like this was never really dictated by our culture or religion.

We knew there were going to be a lot of wedding prayers offered from our pastor and uncle who were officiating the ceremony. But we wanted to pray together, and to have a wedding bench to offer up our wedding prayers together. So, when decorating the altar for our wedding ceremony, we got a smaller sized long table from one of our Sunday School classes and covered it with a white table cloth. We then added our unity candles on the top of the table and added two large white satin pillows at the base of the table.

Our Wedding Prayers

We decided to offer our own wedding prayers during the wedding ceremony immediately following the lighting of the unity candle. A song was sung by a good friend of ours, and once the song started we walked over the light the unity candle. Once the unity candle was lit we said our “I love yous” and he helped me kneel down on the two pillows in front of the table, then kneeling beside me. We prayed silently during the end of the song, and once the song ended, my husband prayed aloud. He implored God to be the leader of our home, and to bless our marriage. He then prayed that God would help him to be the husband he needed to be for me and our future family. It was a touching and emotion filled wedding prayer.

Any wedding prayers offered during your wedding ceremony should be personal for you both as a couple as you join in marriage and ask God’s blessing on your lives together. Adding the prayer bench for our own personal wedding prayers was important for me because we wanted our whole wedding ceremony enveloped in prayer. In my humble personal opinion, having Godly men and women pray for you in important, and can be a real blessing. But being able to pray yourself and seek God’s face and blessing is so much more important.

Basically, I’ve written this article to say that your wedding prayers are indeed important, and should be a large part of your wedding ceremony. Depending on your culture or religion, there may be certain wedding prayers or readings that will be a part of your wedding ceremony. But it’s so important to be able to offer your own prayers to God for His blessings on your marriage.

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Wedding Prayers by the Bride and Groom

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