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Prayer (Option 1)
Let us Pray: Dear God, thank you for this joyous day. Thank you for Your Light that has entered Bride and
Groom's life. Thank you for all the miracles and blessings. Please bless this union. Help Bride and Groom
find the perfect place in this world for their love to flourish. Let the radiant light of their love shine on all
those around them. May all their future creations be blessed. God, bless them with the inner gifts of trust,
compassion, forgiveness and truth that they may live and grow together in love and peace. Amen.

Prayer (Option 2)
Father of mankind, whose nature is love, look with favor upon this woman and this man who desire to
make their vows before you. We are grateful for the providence that has led to this union. Grant this to be
more than an outward union, but also the blending of hearts and spirits and purposes. Bless each with the
inward qualities of integrity, trust, cooperation and forgiveness, that they may live together in love and
peace. Amen.

Prayer (option 3) adapted from Illuminata by Marianne Williamson
Dear God, Please make of this relationship a great and holy adventure. May their joining be a sacred space.
May the two of them find rest here, a haven for their souls. Remove from them any temptation to judge
themselves or each other or to direct each other. May they surrender to You their conflicts and their
burdens. We know You are their Answer and their rock. Help them not forget. Bring them together in
heart and mind as well as body and guide them in the ways of holiness. May this relationship be a burst of
light. May it be a fount of love and wisdom for them, for their family, for their community, and for their
world. May this bond be a channel for Your love and healing, a vehicle of Your grace and power. As
lessons come and challenges grow, let them not be tempted to forsake each other. Let them always
remember that in each other they have the most beautiful woman, the most beautiful man, the strongest
one, the sacred one in whose arms we are repaired. May they remain young in this relationship. May they
grow wise in this relationship. Bring them what You desire for them. And show them how you would have
them be. Thank You, dear God.

The Lords' Prayer (Option 4)
Our Father who art in Heaven, hallow be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth, as it
is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who
trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. (For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory, for ever.) Amen

Prayer (option 5)
Gracious God, spirit of life and love, we ask all blessings upon Groom and Bride in their life together. May
they be blessed with patience, to see them through times of tensions or conflict. May they be blessed with
kindness, to enable them to nurture and care for one another in times of pain or sorrow. May them be
blessed with a spirit of play and joyfulness, that they may participate fully in the beauties and pleasures of
creation. May they be blessed, finally, with a knowledge of the ever-flowing presence of love in the
world, that they may be channels of this love to one another and to all whom they meet in their life's
journey. Amen.

The Irish Wedding Blessing
May the road rise to meet you. . . . May the wind be always at your back. . . . May the sun shine warm
upon your face . . . The rains fall soft upon the fields . . . . May the light of friendship guide your paths
together . . . . May the laughter of children grace the halls of your home. May the joy of living for one
another trip a smile from your lips, a twinkle from your eye. . . . . And when eternity beckons . . . . at the
end of a life heaped high with love . . . . May the good Lord embrace you. . . . with the arms that have
nurtured you . . . . the whole length of your joy-filled days.

Silent Blessing For those who are not here today
(We may modify this one)
We now close our eyes and bring to mind any loved ones who could not be here today. Though they are
absent physically, we invoke, through our thought and prayers, their loving presence. We pray that God
might multiply beyond measure the blessings from these loved ones to this loving couple, and any children
who might one day be a part of this union. Now, from our hearts, we ourselves visualize and sanctify all
the blessings we would bestow on Bride and Groom in their lives as a couple and a family. And, in our
sincere desire to bless, we in turn, are blessed. Blessed Be.

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