Planning Your Marriage Service: With Traditional & Contemporary Readings

A marriage is a reflection about your love and your faith in God. This practical workbook helps couples to express their commitment while simplifying the many details of the wedding ceremony.

Planning Your Marriage Service is the ideal take-along resource for couples to reflect on the choices they need to make. Here are the guidelines concerning the service, music, the entrance and presentation, readings, prayers, communion, and dismissal. A wide selection of Old Testament, New Testament, Gospel readings are included, as well as supplemental readings by great Christian writers and literary figures, such as John Donne, Simone Weil, Julian of Norwich, Frederick Buechner, Martin Luther King Jr, Madeleine L’Engle, and Saint Augustine. A brief commentary follows each reading, discussing the text’s meaning in the framework of a Christian marriage.

This valuable guide gives couples a better understanding of all the elements of their wedding ceremony so they can experience their special day in all the richness of its Christian significance.