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WEDDING: OPENING PRAYERS
 Prayers should be a reflection of your own spirituality.
They are, of course,
optional.
However, if clergy is marrying you, it would be fitting to invite them to pray
for you.
And it might help!
Gracious God, your generous love surrounds us, and everything we enjoy comes from you. In your great love you have given us the gift of marriage. Bless {Name 1} and {Name 2} as they pledge their lives to each other. We feel that you have brought them together in the beginning, helped their love grow, and in this moment are with them in a special way. May their love continue to grow and be a true reflection of your love for us all. Amen.
O God of promise, your greatest gift is love, bless {Name 1} and {Name 2} who today within your presence will take each other in marriage. We thank you that they have found such love and faith and trust in each other that they wish to live for the other all the rest of their lives. Let nothing come between them, but throughout all the chances and changes of life keep them forever loving and forever true to each other. Keep them safe from all trouble which would hurt them in any way. But, when any trial does come to them, grant that it may only bring closer together and closer to you. Grant to them through all their days the perfect love which many waters cannot quench. Amen.
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