Complete Wedding 

Genesis 2:20-24

Wedding of
_________and ________
Feb 14, 2010
Prelude music
Wedding March

On behalf of the families of __________ and _____________ I thank you for coming today
to witness this blessed occasion. The uniting of ______________________ and
______________________ in Christian Matrimony.

Giving in Marriage
Minister; Who, then, presents ______________________ to be married to
______________________?

Prayer
Opening Words;
We are gathered here today in the sight of God and in the presence of this company to
witness the union of ______________________ and ______________________ in
Christian marriage. May our Heavenly Father look down upon this event with his smile of
approval. May the Lord Jesus Christ be present and add his blessing. May the Holy Spirit
attend and seal these vows in love. For marriage is a gift given by God to promote social
order and to increase human happiness.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and everything on the earth and
above and below the earth. He said it was good. Then God created Man in His own image.
God took special time and care in creating man, for man would be his crown jewel of all
creation. But he never said it was good. Instead he said that it was not good for man to be
alone.

It wasn’t that Adam didn’t have anything to do he had to figure out names for all the
animals of the earth. But God noticed that man did not have any one like him so he put
Adam in a deep sleep and removed a rib from his side and created woman to be a helper
and a companion for him.

In the act of creation, God didn’t take the woman from mans head, so that she would rule
over him, nor did God take a bone from Adams feet so that he would trample upon her.
Marriage is a partnership, it will take a lot of give and take on both your parts. The
marriages that succeed are the ones that have found middle ground.

God took the bone from the side so that she would be equal with equal with him, and from
close to his heart, so that he would love, cherish, and honor her. Then he presented woman
to man to serve as his helper and companion. Marriage is God’s gift to deliver us from our
isolation and our loneliness.
In Genesis 2:20 – 24 “So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to ever
beast of the field. But for Adam there was not fund a helper comparable to him. And the
Lord caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and
closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He
made into a woman, and he brought her to the man.
______________________ I want you to listen to what Adam in verse 23, And Adam said;
This is now bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman
Because she was taken out of man.
There for a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife , and they shall
become one flesh.
______________________, ______________________ is not only going to be your wife
she is going to be a part of you. She will be your helpmate, She will be your comfort it times
of struggle, she is the one that God specifically designed for you.
______________________, ______________________ will be not only your husband but
he will be the one you talk to late at night, he will be the one that give you comfort when
life throws its rocks at you… God has designed him just for you.

Prayer by Pastor

Further Comments

______________________ and ______________________, as you prepare to pledge your

vows to each other, let me remind you... A husband and wife should bear each other’s
burdens as well as share each other’s joy. Remember that you will have to cultivate the art
of living together--be considerate, loving, helpful and tenderhearted always putting the
other ones needs first and holding one another up in love. The vows which your are about to
take should be as binding in adversity as they are in prosperity. They should be broken only
by death. As I told you when we met everyone that I have married is still married, carry on
the tradition so that I can give the same blessing to the next couple. When you say until
death do us part-it is a covenant between both of you and God.

Exchange of Vows.

Pastor: As a symbol of your union, will you now join hands. ______________________ , in
taking ______________________ to be your wife, the Lord requires you to promise to love
and cherish her, to honor and sustain her, in sickness as in health, in poverty as in wealth,
in the bad that may darken your days, in the good that may brighten your ways, and to be
true to her until death alone shall part you.
Do you promise?
______________________: I do

Pastor: ______________________ , in taking ______________________ to be your

husband, I require you to promise to love and cherish him, to honor and sustain him, in
sickness as in health, in poverty as in wealth, in the bad that may darken your days, in the
good that may brighten your ways, and to be true to him until death alone shall part you.
Do you promise?
______________________: I Do

Exchange of Rings

The ring is a symbol of the love you have for each other. Its unending circle represents the
eternal quality of your love. And the gold in these rings symbolizes the purity of your love.
Now you may seal your promise to each other by giving and receiving the rings.

______________________, place the ring on ______________________’s finger and

repeat after me:

I, ______________________, take you, ______________________

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 cherish ‘til death do us part
According to God’s holy ordinance,
And with this ring I pledge you my love.

______________________, place the ring on ______________________’s finger and

repeat after me:

I, ______________________, take you, ______________________

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 cherish ‘til death do us part
According to God’s holy ordinance,
And with this ring I pledge you my love.

______________________ and ______________________, I have heard you pledge your

love and faith to each other. Your friends and family members assembled here have heard
you seal your solemn vows of marriage by giving and receiving the rings. Knowing of no
legal or moral reason why you shouldn’t be wed, by the authority vested in me by God and
the state of Kentucky, it is my joy and personal privilege to declare you husband and wife…
You may kiss the Bride