Berbandy and Jason Wedding

Prelude

Playing a playlist from Spotify

Processional

Playing “Something” - The Beatles

Preface

Dearly Beloved, we are assembled here in the presence of God and the witness of these friends and loved ones, to join this man and this woman in Holy marriage; which has been instituted by God, regulated by his commandments, blessed by the Lord Jesus Christ, and to be held in honor among all men. Let us therefore reverently remember that God has established and sanctified marriage, for the welfare and happiness of mankind. Our Savior declared that man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife. By his apostles, He has instructed those who enter into this relation to cherish a mutual esteem and love; to bear with each others infirmities and weaknesses; to comfort each other in sickness, trouble and sorrow; in honesty and industry to provide for each other and encourage each other in the things which pertain to God; and to live together as the heirs of the grace of life.

Berbandy and Jason, having heard and evaluated these thoughts I now ask you:

Consent

JASON will you have BERBANDY as your wife,

To Live Together as God has ordained,

In the Holy State of Matrimony?

Will you Love her, cherish her, honor and protect her

In Sickness and in health,

And, forsaking all others,

Be faithful to her, As long as you both shall live?

If So respond: I WILL

An BERBANDY will you have JASON as your husband

To Live Together as God has ordained,

In the Holy State of Matrimony?

Will you love him, respect him, honor and protect him,

In Sickness and in health,

And, forsaking all others,

Be faithful to him, As long as you both shall live?

If So respond: I WILL

Prayer/Invocation

Then Let us PRAY:

[WRITE A PRAYER FOR THE COUPLE AND THE WEDDING AND MARRAIGE]

Reading of Scripture:

Psalm 45 ESV

To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah; a love song. My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe. You are the most handsome of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever. Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your splendor and majesty! In your majesty ride out victoriously for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness; let your right hand teach you awesome deeds! Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; the peoples fall under you. Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness; you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions; your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad; daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir. Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father’s house, and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him. The people of Tyre will seek your favor with gifts, the richest of the people. All glorious is the princess in her chamber, with robes interwoven with gold. In many-colored robes she is led to the king, with her virgin companions following behind her. With joy and gladness they are led along as they enter the palace of the king. In place of your fathers shall be your sons; you will make them princes in all the earth. I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore nations will praise you forever and ever.

1 Corinthians 13 ESV

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Homily:

Is it this time that we move to the portion of the service that's often known as the homily? And some of you might be wondering, well, what's a homily? It's a great question. It's not a word we often use. A homily. The short answer is, it's a sermon. But in part.

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But in particular, a sermon with a particular audience and or a particular purpose. In mind. Here. This homily on a wedding ceremony. Has both of those, a particular audience and a particular message. The audience, though there are many in attendance here, and I do hope and pray that that all of you who can hear this find some blessing or goodness.

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From this message, the audience is you, Jason, and you. Burgundy. This is a message for you, too, with a particular purpose as well. The purpose, and this is why this is my favorite part of any wedding ceremony is. It's my last chance to give to you my last words of encouragements exhortation.

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Of Hope. Love goodness! Advice. The last chance I have before the vows are set and the wedding is over to offer to you. Some hope and wisdom, ideally from God's. And so I've thought and prayed about what I would say here. What words of advice do I give? To someone I have recently met and grown very fond of.

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And someone who I love dearly, but has been ignoring my advice for some 16 years. What do I say? This is where I've landed. As we stand here. In the beauty being outdoors of God's creation. It strikes me that we have been given. Beautiful gifts by God. Some gifts we are given.

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We just see, and we appreciate the beauty of a sunsets. The joy of a child's laughter or the comfort of a warm Embrace. These are gifts from God. But other gifts we are given by our creator. That require work from us. Marriage is a gift that I would say doesn't just require work.

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It will require. Your whole life. Before we even dive into what was required, we should note the importance of the gift that's been given to us. If we were to flip back to the beginning, literally the beginning of the Bible, the beginning of it all, we would read that God created the heavens and the Earth.

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He creates the oceans and the Seas, and all of the creatures that dwell within. He creates the earth and the skies, the birds, and one of my favorite verses in Genesis, the creeping things that creep on the face. Of the. But then? In his most special Act of Creation, God fashioned with care and intention, one being made in his own image he created Adam.

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But something's different at the creation of Adam. As we read through Genesis, we see over and over again, God looks at what he creates, and it's good, and he looks. And it's good, and we get this pattern. It's good, it's good, it's good. But then, in Genesis, chapter 2, God looks to man that he has made and says this.

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It is not good. For man to be alone. And so marriage becomes ultimately the gift that forever unites two people together. It's God's solution to the fact that it's not good that man should be alone. And so, therefore, now for both of you. Marriage is the gift God has given to you both where you can declare I am no longer alone, for I have.

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We could go to other verses in scripture in Ecclesiastes. We read that two are better than one for if one Falls. The other is there to lift him. Jesus himself teaches in light of the teaching of Genesis that a man shall leave his father and mother and cling to his wife.

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And that the two become one. A good gift of God. You become for each other, a shelter in the storms of life you become for each other, a helping hand out of the pits that you will inevitably fall into over the course of your life together. But, as I mentioned, this gift.

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Is hard. You'll be forced to to know and then to place the wants and needs of someone else above yourself. You have to live with someone. To put it nicely. You'll have to deal with the habits. To say it, not so nicely. You will have to deal with the things that drive you insane.

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You will have. I promise you today fights. And troubles. I will not lie to you. You will have trials and tribulations. Life will not go as you have planned. Your marriage will not go as you have planned and sometimes. Though, you ought to be for one another, a shelter, a place of love and compassion.

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You will become a stumbling block for the other. It is easy to stand up here in front of God in all of these Witnesses and say I will love you forever. It is infinitely harder to actually do that. And so I charge you today. Remember this moment? Remember this commitment.

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Remember that you are deciding, declaring, and vowing today, that no matter what you will have and hold from this day forth till death, do you part? Jason, as we have met and talked together, and I have had the joy and privilege of getting to know you. It's apparent to me a few things.

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But maybe the biggest one, and maybe the most important. Is, you have a great desire to love and care for burgundy. Do not forget that. As you yourself work and labor and struggle, remember your love for her. Remember that you have chosen her for your wife. In the book of Ephesians, we read that Paul has commanded husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the.

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Without getting into all of that, it means this love her with a sacrificial love. Jesus gave himself for us. So, to your duty is to give all of yourself. To her. Bourbon D. Known you for a long time? And this. I've always known about. Generous. Headstrong. But loving. Your duty. Is to now give that holy and completely. To Jason. Be there for him in the midst of troubles. Learn to care for him as he needs bear. His burdens relish his Joys and his victories be his. As we mentioned, the words that scripture gives us in Genesis, his help mate.

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Support him. Love him. The way that you are called to. And above all else to both of you. I have this exhortation. Let this day. And these vowels. Be a solemn reminder. The goodness and grace of God to you both. May you hold tightly? To the love. And the care and the Covenant that you will be making. With one another.

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To solemize this. The bride and groom will now say their vows.

Vows:

Please Repeat after me:

I JASON, take thee BERBADY

to be my wedded wife

To have and to hold from this day forward

For better and for worse

for richer and for poorer

in sickness and in health

to love and to cherish

till death do us part

To all of this I pledge my word

I BERBANDY, take thee JASON

to be my wedded husband

To have and to hold from this day forward

For better and for worse

for richer and for poorer

in sickness and in health

to love and to cherish

till death do us part

To all of this I pledge my word

Pronouncement

Forasmuch as JASON and BERBANDY have consented together in holy marriage and have declared the same before God and us as witnesses, I therefore pronounce them as Husband and wife, In the Name of the father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. What therefore God has thus joined together let no man separate.

You may now Kiss the Bride [David Steps away as to no be in the Pictures!]

Benediction

Jason And Berbandy, This then is my prayer for you both:

The Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord lift up his countenance and give to you both, and this family peace and joy.

AMEN

RECESSIONAL MUSIC STARTS AND THE BRIDE AND GROOM WALK AWAY [STOPPING HALFWAY DOWN THE ASILE FOR ONE LAST KISS AND PICTURE?]

BRIDAL PARTY FOLLOWS

Closing Instructions:

On Behalf of the Bride and Groom I would like to thank you all for coming today to celebrate with them the joy and love that this marriage is and will be in their lives. We would ask that you all head back and help yourselves to the refreshments there. For the Immediate Family and the bridal Party we ask that you remain here for pictures.

Thank you, God Bless, and you are dismissed!