Evan & Emily Wedding
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Beccy music before
I enter
Announce unplugged ceremony.
Evan enters
Bella enters
Bride enters
Bridal music?
Welcome
“Welcome family and friends. We are gathered here today to celebrate this very special occasion with Evan and Emily.
As you know a year ago, Evan and Emily were married in a private ceremony.
Today we have the honor of celebrating this marriage together.
They are already and have been officially and legally married. But today they are taking an important step in their journey as husband and wife as they affirm this bond formally and publicly.
As we begin, let’s go to the Lord in prayer.
Prayer
Father we thank you for this day that we are able to come here and celebrate the marriage of Evan and Emily. Thank you for the family and friends who have come to be a part of this special day. As we come together for this special time, I pray that you would bless them and strengthen them in their marriage. I pray that you would guide and direct them. Draw you close to you and empower them to be the people you call them to be. I pray that we do here today, their marriage will honor and glorify you. In the name of Jesus we Pray. Amen.
Sermon
As we celebrate Evan and Emily’s marriage. It is important that we take the time to recognize what marriage is.
Marriage is a gift and a covenant given by God. Today you have chosen to proclaim publically, before God and all of these witnesses, your commitment to the promises that you have made to one another.
First, marriage is a GIFT.
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
God created marriage for Adam’s benefit, and likewise for Eve. They were to be suited for one another, because it wasn’t good for them to be alone.
God gave us marriage so that we might be able to enjoy aspects of this life that no person can accomplish alone.
Deep companionship.
The establishing of a family.
Marriage also helps us to understand better our relationship with God. And shows us our need for him.
We can see that even though we have found the one who has chosen to love us more than any other person may, God’s love is greater.
While marriage is a gift, it is also a COVENANT.
This means that marriage is a promise, not just between the two of you, but before God to love, care for, and remain faithful to one another for the rest of your life.
Later in Genesis 2:24 it says this.
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
The Hebrew word for “hold fast” is found in another form translated as “soldering.” We can see this in the idea in the description that they shall “become one flesh.”
Evan, as someone who welds, this is something that you can appreciate.
In marriage two become one. This should be a permanent process. A joining of lives.
Marriage is so much more meaningful than it is often seen in our society.
It is not simply another step.
It isn’t about a new legal status.
It isn’t something to be entered into or departed from lightly.
Marriage matters, and it is the responsibility of both of you to take seriously the role you play in upholding the covenant you have entered into.
We must remember that all of this is from GOD.
God has given us marriage to bless us, you have already seen much of this.
This year has been marked with many wonderful moments in your marriage.
You have bought their first house.
You are expecting their first baby.
It is important that we remember that marriage should point us toward God and not other things.
When we allow ourselves to get distracted from our relationship God, we will face difficulties.
The same is true in marriage.
We must remember to turn to the giver of blessings rather than the blessings themselves.
In order to do this, I have three pieces of advice.
PRIORITIZE
God
Each other
Family and Friends
What matters
LEARN
What God is calling you both to.
As individuals.
As a couple.
About each other.
About how you can...
GIVE
Give of yourself to God.
Give to each other.
Give to those around you.
Give in whatever you do.
I do’s
AS...
Evan, in the presence of God and these witnesses do you still take Emily as your lawfully wedded wife, entering into covenant marriage as ordained by God? Do you promise to love her, comfort her, honor, and keep her, in sickness and in health; for richer and for poorer, forsaking all others, and keep yourself only to her, so long as you both shall live?
“I do”
Emily, in the presence of God and these witnesses do you still take Evan as your lawfully wedded Husband, entering into covenant marriage as ordained by God? Do you promise to love him, comfort him, honor, and keep him, in sickness and in health; for richer and for poorer, forsaking all others, and keep yourself only to him, so long as you both shall live?
“I do”
Vows
You have chosen to write your own vows...
Rings
It is at this point that we would traditionally exchange rings.
These rings serve not only as a sign of your commitment, but can serve as a reminder of the value of marriage.
The ring is a circle which should remind you that your love should be unending.
It is made of gold, which is precious, like your marriage.
Gold is also a fragile metal, and must be treated with care to maintain its fullest beauty. Just as you both must take care to maintain the beauty that will be your marriage.
Seeing as you have already exchanged rings, I think it would be appropriate that you show us all that you are in fact wearing your rings.
SHOW OFF RINGS
Let these rings that you have exchanged, serve as a reminder of the promises that you have made to one another.
Sand Ceremony
We have discussed that in marriage the two become one.
You have decided that as a sign and reminder of this intertwining of your lives to take part in a sand ceremony.
Each of you taking your respective color, representing your life prior to marriage.
Pouring them together, layered, or at the same time will mix them in a way that they become “one.”
The individual color of both will still be visible, as will both of your individual personalities and desires, but from the moment you mix them, it would be impossible for them to be completely split apart.
It is my prayer that your marriage would be so strong that it would be even more difficult to disrupt than it would be separate each grain of sand.
At this time, you may both mix the sand together.
Do the sand
PRAY
Father we thank you for the display of love we have seen today. I pray that you will bless Evan and Emily as they continue to follow you together. Bless their marriage. Guide protect and bless them as they go from here today. In Jesus name we pray.
Kiss
With the saying of vows and exchanging of rings. By the power vested in me as a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, I now pronounce you are still very much husband and wife. What God has joined together, let no man separate. Evan, you may kiss your bride.
Presentation
It is my distinct and great pleasure to reintroduce to you for the very first time Mr. & Mrs. Evan and Emily Richter.
Recessional music
Announce that everyone is invited to head to the gym with open seating aside from two reserved tables. Immediate family is staying a moment for pictures.