Angie & Noah Wedding | September 21, 2024

MUSIC PRELUDE (4:45) — Piano

Guests seated by ushers

FAMILY SEATING (5:00) — Music Changes

Grandmothers

Noah seats Vandals

Noah seats Olga

Pastor and Noah get into place up

PROCESSIONAL — Music Changes

Wedding Party

Flower Girls

JUAN & ANGIE ENTER — Bridal Music Begins

Pastor announces “Please Rise”

Once Juan & Angie are in place and music ends, Pastor announces “Please Be Seated”

GIVING OF BRIDE “Who gives this woman to be married to this man”

GREETING On behalf of Noah & Angie, it’s my honor to welcome you to their special day. It’s significant when a man and woman come together and make a covenant before God to commit their lives to each other. In God’s eyes, today is the day that these two become one. This joining together is a picture of the way we become one with Christ at salvation. In fact, the day that Noah and Angie each recognized their sin and placed their faith in Christ alone for salvation is the only day in their lives bigger than this one. And the fact that they’ve each received Christ by faith makes this day even more significant. They share more than a physical and emotional bond. There’s a spiritual bond that only comes through Jesus Christ.

That makes this more than just a ceremony. This is a sacred event that has the attention of Heaven. These vows will be made before a living God. He’s the audience today.

CHARGE My favorite passage to use during a wedding is Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. Solomon says that “Two Are Better Than One” and he gives four scenarios in which that’s true:

I. When you’re at work (Serving)

Ecclesiastes 4:9, “Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.”

A. Noah & Angie, you’re going to spend your life laboring together.

1. Establishing a home

2. Raising children

3. Serving in your local church

B. A marriage is full of labor, and it’s better done together

1. Don’t lead separate lives where do your thing and you do yours.

2. Strive for that especially as you serve God together.

3. The strongest homes put God first and serve Him as a team. Decide now that your home will be one that serves.

C. Labor gets hard. When it does, if you have someone beside you working with you, it’s much easier to keep moving forward.

“Two Are Better Than One”

II. When you fail (Mistakes)

Ecc. 4:10, “For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.”

A. I know a wedding isn’t a time to talk about mistakes, but marriages are full of them.

1. There will be failures, but when the come, instead of kicking each other while you’re down, pick each other up.

2. When they come, be the on to help pick the other up.

B. Your treatment of your spouse after a mistake is important.

1. Eph. 4:32 says we ought to be kind, tenderhearted, and forgive one another even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven us.

2. When God sent Jesus to die on a cross for our sins, as soon as we cried out to Him for salvation, He forgave us of all our sins. There’s nothing the cross can’t cover.

3. That’s the way God says we ought to forgive each other.

C. Too many marriages fall apart because a couple can’t forgive.

1. Here’s the thing:

a. Both of you will make mistakes

b. Both of you are called to forgive and pick the other up

2. It is easier to own up to your failures when you know you’re loved enough to be forgiven.

“Two Are Better Than One”

III. When You’re Cold (When it gets hard)

Ecc. 4:11, “And if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?”

A. There will be times in your marriage that it’s not easy.

1. The honeymoon will end and reality will set in.

2. When the storms come, you’ll have to decide how much you mean these vows today.

3. The vows say, “In sickness and in health.”

4. You don’t know what you’re saying yes to.

B. It won’t always be easy, but it helps knowing someone will be there with you no matter what.

1. When it gets hard, embrace your roles.

2. Noah, Eph 5:25 says, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”

3. You won’t always feel like loving your wife, but when those times come, choose to fulfill your role. She needs your love. Not just romance. She needs you to initiate sacrificial love like Christ loved you.

5. Angie, Eph. 5:22 says, “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”

6. This doesn’t imply value. It implies role. Angie, even when you don’t feel like it, make choices that are best for Noah.

7. As the two of you do that for each other and embrace your roles, God will bless your marriage.

“Two Are Better Than One”

IV. When you’re in a fight (not with each other, but alongside)

Ecc. 4:12, “And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him”

A. There will be things you have to fight for together.

1. Fight for each other. There should be no one more loyal to each other than the two of you.

2. Fight to stay in love. When the excitement wears off, decide to find ways to show your love and commitment.

3. Fight to raise children that aren’t just good kids, but godly kids. If God blesses you with a family, teach them God’s Word and raise them in church for the Lord so that another generation comes along ready to fight.

4. Fight for your spiritual lives. Walk with God daily and help each other with that. Stay in church. Don’t let work and busyness keep you from God. It’s easy to do.

B. Ecc. 4:12, the last phrase in that passage is “A threefold cord is not quickly broken.”

1. Two are better than one, but three are better than two.

2. Meaning, you two as a team plus Jesus Christ will form a cord that won’t easily come apart.

3. Make Jesus Christ the center of your home. Consider Him in every decision, how you love each other, how you raise children, what your priorities are.

4. If He is in the middle of everything, you’ll have an unbreakable bond.

C. The biggest reason to consider Christ in your marriage is this: He considered you.

1. I hope that you’ve acknowledged your sin before God and received Jesus Christ as your Savior.

2. The bride and groom and their families would be thrilled to know that this day led to a decision for Jesus Christ.

CONCLUSION

To Noah and Angie, my charge to you today is this: God brought you together, so embrace your life as a team. Two are better than one. And three are better than two. Put Christ in the middle of your marriage and enjoy a great life for Him as a family.

A life like that requires a covenant, so I’ll begin with you, Noah.

VOWS & RING EXCHANGE

VOWS: Do you, Noah take this woman to be your wedded wife, to love, comfort, honor and keep her, in sickness and in health, and forsaking all others, keep yourself only unto her, so long as you both shall live? I DO

Do you, Angie take this man to be your wedded husband, to love, support, and submit yourself to him, in sickness and in health, and forsaking all others, keep yourself only unto him, so long as you both shall live? I DO

Noah & Angie, would you please join hands?

Noah, please repeat after me: I, Noah Vandal, take thee, Angie, to be my wedded wife; to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part according to God’s holy ordinance; and to thee I pledge my faithfulness.

Angie, please repeat after me: I, Angie Vargas, take thee Noah, to be my wedded husband; to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part according to God’s holy ordinance; and to thee I pledge my faithfulness.

Noah & Angie have requested to sing a worship song. The lyrics to WONDERFUL MERCIFUL SAVIOR should be on the sheet, so let’s stand together as we sing.

WONDERFUL MERCIFUL SAVIOR

Vs. 1

Wonderful, merciful Savior

Precious Redeemer and Friend

Who would have thought that a Lamb

Could rescue the souls of men

Oh, You rescue the souls of men

Vs. 2

Counselor, Comforter, Keeper

Spirit we long to embrace

You offer hope when our hearts have

Hopelessly lost our way

Oh, we've hopelessly lost the way

CHORUS

You are the One that we praise

You are the One we adore

You give the healing and grace

Our hearts always hunger for

Oh, our hearts always hunger for

Vs. 3

Almighty, infinite Father

Faithfully loving Your own

Here in our weakness You find us

Falling before Your throne

Oh, we're falling before Your throne

CHORUS

You are the One that we praise

You are the One we adore

You give the healing and grace

Our hearts always hunger for

Oh, our hearts always hunger for

RING EXCHANGE: Noah, do you have a token to represent your commitment? This ring is a visible expression of this marriage. It is a circle with no beginning or ending. It signifies the nature of God’s love for us and His intentions for our love toward each other.

Noah, please place this ring on the 3rd finger of Angie’s left hand and repeat after me. With this ring, I thee wed, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

Angie, do you have a token to represent your commitment to Noah? Please place it on the 3rd finger of Noah’s left hand and repeat after me. With this ring, I thee wed, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

PRAYER: I’d like to invite Juan, Angie’s father, to come and pray.

PRONOUNCEMENT OF MAN & WIFE Noah, Angie, what therefore God hath joined TOGETHER, let not man put ASUNDER.

Forasmuch as Noah and Angie have consented together in holy wedlock, and have witnessed the same before God and this congregation, by the authority vested in me as a minister of the Gospel of Christ, I now pronounce you husband and wife.

TO THE GROOM Noah, you may KISS your bride. (Pastor move out of the way, After done, bride and groom face the congregation)

TO ALL It is my pleasure to introduce to you MR. and MRS. VANDAL.

RECESSIONAL MUSIC

Bride & Groom exit, then wedding party

Once they are out, announcement is made:

CLOSING ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. Thank you for coming. Noah & Angie would like to invite you to stay for a social hour to enjoy Popcorn and Italian Cream Sodas in the gazebo.

2. If you’ve been notified that you’re in pictures, please remain seated while the others go to the gazebo.

3. Dinner will be around 6:50. At this time the ushers will come and dismiss you by row.

4. Please stay out of the house.