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Hand Blessing Ceremony

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Hand Blessing Ceremony

Below is a Hand Blessing Ceremony.  If you have any questions or need a Wedding Officiant for your wedding ceremony.    Contact St Louis Wedding Chapel  314-472-5017

These are the hands of your best friend, that are holding yours on your wedding day,as you promise to love each other today, tomorrow, and forever….

These are the hands that will work alongside yours,   as you build your future together….

These are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through out the years,  And….   With the slightest touch,  comfort you like no other.

These are the hands that will hold you….    When fear or grief fills your mind….

These are the hands that will countless times wipe the tears from your eyes;      

Tears of sorrow, & Tears of joy…..

These are the hands that will tenderly hold your children.                                          

 And will help you to hold your family Together as one….

 And lastly, these are the hands that even when wrinkled and aged, will still be reaching for yours, Still giving you the same unspoken tenderness with just a touch…..

Our St Louis Wedding Officiants travel anywhere to most all venues in the greater St Louis And Metro IL. Area as well as performing small weddings in our wedding chapel located in the South County Area.  Check out our website to learn more….

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Corinthians 13: 4-8

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1 Corinthians 13: 4-8

Below is Corinthians 13: 4-8.  Corinthians 13: 4-8 are versus in a reading and are popular bible versus that are used quite commonly in wedding ceremonies.  They are also probably the most widely used in wedding ceremonies.  Whether the ceremony is religious or civil.   If you have any questions or need a Wedding Officiant for your wedding ceremony.    Contact St Louis Wedding Chapel  314-472-5017

Corinthians 13: 4-8

Love is patient, love is kind.

Love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.

It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

It does not rejoice in wrong doing, but rejoices in truth;

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

And now faith, hope and love abide; and the greatest of these is love.

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the Sand Ceremony

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Sand Ceremony | Unity Ceremony

Below is the Sand Ceremony.  If you have any questions or need a Wedding Officiant for your wedding ceremony.    Contact St Louis Wedding Chapel  314-472-5017

“BRIDE and GROOM, today you join your separate lives together.  Each container represents all that you are and all that you’ll ever be as individuals.

They also represent your lives before today.

As these containers of sand are poured into the keepsake vase, the individual containers of sand will no longer exist, but will be joined together as one.

A member of each family will come up and pour the sand that will be the foundation for your marriage, to help solidify your commitment and build a new and lasting relationship on

Then the 2 of you will pour the sand to cement this new relationship, and join in the unity of marriage

Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual containers, so will your marriage and family now be joined.”

I now Invite you to perform the sand ceremony

Our St Louis Wedding Officiants travel anywhere to most all venues in the greater St Louis And Metro IL. Area as well as performing small weddings in our wedding chapel located in the South County Area.  Check out our website to learn more….

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Irish Wedding Bells

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Irish Wedding Bells

Below is the Irish Wedding Bell ceremony.  If you have any questions or need a Wedding Officiant for your wedding ceremony.    Contact St Louis Wedding Chapel  314-472-5017

You may wish to incorporate in your ceremony, the Irish Wedding Bell.   At your wedding, you and your husband ring the bell, and afterwards keep it close at hand in your new household. (Perhaps your guests could have smaller versions of the bell, and “ring” you out of the church in lieu of the usual shower of rice.) Whenever you argue or have differences, retrieve your bell and ring it in order to remind you of your solemn wedding vows.

Bride & Groom

Please ring the bell, to Commemerate this day and afterwards keep it close at hand in your new household. Whenever you argue or have differences, retrieve your bell and ring it in order to remind you of your solemn wedding vows.

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Honey Ceremony

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The Honey Ceremony

Below is the Honey Ceremony.  If you have any questions or need a Wedding Officiant for your wedding ceremony.    Contact St Louis Wedding Chapel  314-472-5017

Simple passage for the Kiss

You May now start this marriage off, by sharing in the sweetness of life,  and sealing this with a kiss

 Honey Ceremony

Honey is a symbol of the sweetness in life. And so, with this dish of honey, we proclaim this day as a day of great joy and celebration – a day to remember – your day.

We thank you God, for creating this divine substance, and ask you to bless it, just as we ask you bless this holy union.   

Groom dips his little finger into the honey and touches Bride’s tongue with it;        Bride does the same, touching Groom’s tongue.

As together you now share this honey, so may you, under God’s guidance, in perfect love and devotion to each other, share your lives together, and thereby may you find life’s joys doubly gladdening, its bitterness sweetened, and all things hallowed by time, companionship and love.

“Honey is a symbol of the sweetness in life.                                                                 And so, with this jar of honey,                                                                                     we proclaim this day as a day of great joy and celebration.                                                 A sweet day to remember.

Bride & Groom                                                                                                                     As together you now share this honey, 

so may you now share perfect love and devotion to each other, share your lives together, and thereby may you find life’s joys doubly gladdened, its bitterness sweetened, and all things hallowed by time, companionship and love.”

Our St Louis Wedding Officiants travel anywhere to most all venues in the greater St Louis And Metro IL. Area as well as performing small weddings in our wedding chapel located in the South County Area.  Check out our website to learn more….

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Art of Marriage

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The Art Of Marriage”

Below is the Reading The Art of Marriage. If you have any questions or need a Wedding Officiant for your wedding ceremony.    Contact St Louis Wedding Chapel  314-472-5017

A good marriage must be created.                                                                                    In the art of marriage the little things are the big things…

It is never being too old to hold hands.

It is remembering to say “I love you” at least once each day.

It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives.

It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family.

It is speaking words of appreciation and  demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways.

It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.

It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow.

It is finding room for the things of the spirit.

It is a common search for the good and the beautiful.

It is not only marrying the right partner…

It is being the right partner.

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The Apache Wedding Prayer

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The Apache Wedding Prayer

Below is the Apache Wedding Prayer in the Long and Short Versions.  If you have any questions or need a Wedding Officiant for your wedding ceremony.    Contact St Louis Wedding Chapel  314-472-5017

Now you will feel no rain,  –                                                                                                For each of you will be shelter to the other.

Now you will feel no cold,  –                                                                                               For each of you will be warmth to the other.

Now there is no more loneliness,   –                                                                                 For each of you will be companion to the other.

Now you are two bodies,   –                                                                                            But there is one life before you.

May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead; And for all the years to come.

Go now to your dwelling place, To enter into the days of your togetherness.

And may your days be good and long upon this earth.  Your adventure has just begun!

The Apache Wedding Blessing (long version)

Now you will feel no storms,                                                                                              for each of you will be shelter to the other.

Now you will feel no cold,                                                                                                 for each of you will be warmth to the other.

Now there is no loneliness,                                                                                              for each of you is companion to the other,

Now you are two bodies,                                                                                                   But there is one life before you.

Turn together to look at the road you have traveled, to reach this point–                          -the hour of your happiness.

It stretches behind you into the past.

Now look to the future that lies ahead. A long and winding, adventure-filled road, whose every turn means new discovery, new hopes, new joys, new laughter, and a few shared tears.

May happiness be your companion,

May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead; And for all the years to come.

Go this day to your dwelling place and enter into your days together.

May your days be good and long upon this earth. Your adventure has just begun!

Our St Louis Wedding Officiants travel anywhere to most all venues in the greater St Louis And Metro IL. Area as well as performing small weddings in our wedding chapel located in the South County Area.  Check out our website to learn more….

For more info on a St Louis wedding officiant from St Louis Wedding Chapel…….  Call 314-472-5017