Wedding Ceremony Blessings

Blessings are an optional part of your wedding ceremony, but they can add to the loveliness of your wedding ceremony. They may be read by Pastor Bob, Pastor Barbara, a member of your family, or by one of your close friends. The blessings below are just a sample- we can provide dozens more for you to choose from, or you may contribute your own.

If you honor us by choosing to use our services, we can provide a wealth of readings, vows, blessings, and sample ceremonies. Together we can craft the wedding of your dreams!

Pastors Bob and Barbara, wedding officiants
Email: weddingpastors@aol.com
Phone: (203) 503- 4102

Apache Wedding Blessing
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.
Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you.
May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through all the years,
May happiness be your companion and your days together be good and long upon the earth.

Blessing for a Marriage
by James Dillet Freeman

“May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding. May you always need one another -- not so much to fill your emptiness as to help you to know your fullness. A mountain needs a valley to be complete. The valley does not make the mountain less, but more. And the valley is more a valley because it has a mountain towering over it. So let it be with you and you. May you need one another, but not out of weakness. May you want one another, but not out of lack. May you entice one another, but not compel one another. May you embrace one another, but not out encircle one another. May you succeed in all-important ways with one another, and not fail in the little graces. May you look for things to praise, often say, "I love you!" and take no notice of small faults. If you have quarrels that push you apart, may both of you hope to have good sense enough to take the first step back. May you enter into the mystery that is the awareness of one another's presence -- no more physical than spiritual, warm and near when you are side by side, and warm and near when you are in separate rooms or even distant cities. May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy. May you have love, and may you find it loving one another.”

Traditional Irish Blessing
May to road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand. May God be with you and bless you; may you see your children's children. May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, may you know nothing but happiness from this day forward. May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back. May the warm rays of sun fall upon your home and may the hand of a friend always be near. May green be the grass you walk on, may blue be the skies above you, may pure be the joys that surround you, may true be the heart that loves you.

Celtic Wedding Blessing
May your mornings bring joy and your evenings bring peace.
May your troubles grow few as your blessings increase.
Be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
May your hands be forever clasped in friendship
And your hearts joined forever in love.
Your lives are very special,
God has touched you in many ways.
May his blessings rest upon you
And fill all your coming days.

Scottish Wedding Blessing
May joy and peace surround you both,
Contentment latch your door,
May happiness be with you now;
God bless you evermore.

A Polish Blessing
"May your heart be as patient as the earth, your love as warm as harvest gold. May your days be full, as the city is full, your nights as joyful as dancers. May your arms be as welcoming as home. May your faith be as enduring as God's love, your spirit as valiant as your heritage. May your hand be as sure, as a friend, your dreams as hopeful as a child. May your soul be as brave as your people, and may you be blessed."

The Lord Bless You And Keep You
The Lord bless you and keep you both. The Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious upon you. The Lord lift His countenance upon you and give you peace, happiness, and joy, at this moment, throughout your married life, and forevermore. Amen.

May God Grant You:
In joining your lives, may God grant you both…
LOVE- to afford each other quality time together.
JOY- in the accomplishments of one another.
UNDERSTANDING- that all your interests and desires will not always be the same.
FRIENDSHIP- based on mutual trust.
COURAGE- to speak of a misunderstanding and to work on a solution.
COMPASSION- to comfort each other in pain and in sorrow.

FORESIGHT- to realize rainbows follow rainy days.
IMAGINATION- to keep with you part of the children you used to be.

MIRTH- from your sense of humor.

AWARENESS- to live each day with the knowledge that there is no promise of tomorrow.

May God bless you and keep you in the palm of His hand.