Levi and Rosanna

Levi and Rosanna Wedding

Levi Chism & Rosanna Rutherford / Wedding / Ephesians 5:22–31; 1 Corinthians 13:1–13

Levi, Jake, and groomsmen walk out to the front.

Music starts, bridesmaids walk down.

You Won’t Ever Be Lonely (Andy Griggs)

Ring Bearers walk down.

Flower Girl walks down.

Start second song

My Best Friend (Tim McGraw)

Sign walks down.

Bride walks down with Uncle and Dad.

(Walk down to Rosanna and Uncle with Levi)

Who gives this woman to this man?

“Me and her mother do”

(Rosanna takes Levi’s hand and approaches the alter)

Prayer

Ceremony

We are gathered here today in the sight of God to see Levi and Rosanna to come together in holy matrimony. Marriage is an honorable union between a man and a woman and represents the type of relationship that Jesus Christ has for the Church. Levi and Rosanna want to thank you all for attending today for this special moment and ask you to pray for them as they begin their marriage.

Levi and Rosanna

• Talk about how you met Levi and Rosanna.

• Rosanna’s testimony

• Levi’s testimony

• Both of these people love Jesus Christ. He is one who can form a bond that can never be broken.

When Levi and Rosanna met

· Questions about first date

o What did the other person wear on your first date?

§ R – A long sleeve pearl snap, jeans, and boots

§ L – Pink and black shirt with jeans.

o What did y’all do on your first date?

§ R – He took me to a dance that wound up being his dads surprise birthday party.

§ L – Went to dad’s birthday party and danced.

o What was the 1st thing that you noticed about one another?

§ R – I had a crush on Levi since high school and the frist thing I noticed were his kind eyes and how good he looked in his football uniform.

§ L – She has an amazing laugh and is easy to talk to.

o What made you decide that you want to marry this person?

§ R – Definitely his dad jokes! Seriously, he is such a kind person who is always available to help anyone in need. He is an amazing dad full of compassion and patience. He takes take’s care of me when I need him even if he might be tired of me. He loves the Lord and leads our family with love.

§ L – She can handle my craziness and understands me. Rosanna completes the parts in me that are not as strong.

· How the Lord has brought the family together.

Ephesians 5:22–31

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

• As we read, marriage is a visible representation of gospel of Jesus Christ. As Rosanna submits to the leadership of Levi, Levi in turn is called to sacrifice himself to serve and love her.

• Share the gospel.

• Marriage is not to be something that people enter into without a strong reverence and love for Jesus. He will carry you through everything if you will both choose to lean upon Him.

• The type of love that Jesus has for His church is the most powerful love known to man. It’s the type of love that cannot be contained, overcome, and gives a couple the ability to endure anything that comes their way.

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Levi and Rosanna, I encourage you to spend your marriage to pursue Jesus Christ and grow in Him as a couple and as a family. He will never fail you or leave you.

As Levi and Rosanna participate in the ceremony with the sand that represents the oneness that they are their family having in Christ, pray for them.

Sand Ceremony

Vows

Levi and Rosanna have decided that they would share their own vows today.

Rosanna 1st

Levi 2nd

Ring Exchange

(MOH and Best Man) “Do you have the rings?”

Levi, place the ring on Rosanna’s left ring finger and repeat after me. “With this ring, I thee wed”

Rosanna, place the ring on Levi’s left ring finger and repeat after me. “With this ring, I thee wed”

Prayer

Pronouncement

By the power vested in me by the state of Texas, I pronounce you husband and wife.

Levi, you may kiss your bride!