Christian Wedding Sermons

Christian wedding sermons are sometimes a part of a wedding ceremony.

This can be a message the pastor writes specifically for this occasion or one that the pastor uses for special weddings or anniversaries.

Christian wedding sermons can be based solely on Bible verses or they can be based on the experience of married couples, including the pastor's own experiences.

My husband, David, who pastored several churches has graciously written the sermon below. If you would like to use it at your wedding, please feel free to do so.

Christian wedding sermons can be full of good advice and good biblical content. They can also have some humor and some good light-hearted fun.

Christian Wedding Sermons #1

Susie was really excited. She was going to her first wedding. She wanted to be at the wedding early in order to get a front row seat, or as close to the front as she could get.

As they entered the church, Susie’s curiosity took control. She looked at all the beautiful flowers and decorations. She listened to the music being played. She was totally awed by all that she was seeing and experiencing.

The pianist started playing "Here Comes The Bride". The wedding party starting making its way down the aisle. Susie noticed the bridesmaids in their gorgeous dresses and the groomsmen in their tuxes. The ladies were all young and pretty. The groomsmen were all young and handsome.

As she continued to look on the procession as it went by, the ringbearer and the flowergirl went by.

Finally the congregation stood as the bride made her grand entrance. Susie started in awe at the Bride. She was also young and beautiful in her white gown. But then Susie noticed that the man walking with her was not so young and he was not as handsome as the others. He was walking with a limp and was balding.

She listened and watched with intense interest to the wedding ceremony. But because of her size she could not see all that was happening. When the ceremony was over, she noticed the wedding party leave. First the bride and her new husband followed by the bridesmaids and groomsmen.

After the wedding Susie said to her mom, “Mom I think I understand how this wedding stuff works. You take your old model husband and trade him for a new one! When are you going to trade Dad in?

Or, in this case, since the bride and groom have already had their favorite wedding Scriptures read earlier, the pastor just jumps right in with one of his favorite Christian wedding sermons:

Let’s go back to the beginning of marriage, way back to the days of Adam and Eve. In the book of Genesis, Moses tells us that woman was created from man to be his helpmate. God also told them to be fruitful and multiply.

The First Wedding:

The first wedding was very simple. There were no showers, no future in-laws to meet. No bachelor party to plan. No wedding rehearsal and no rehearsal diner to worry about. No invitations to send out. No honeymoon to plan. There was absolutely no stress at all. And there was no wedding dress to fuss over.

The First Night:

Well, the Genesis account tells us that Adam “lay” with his wife which means he had physical contact with her. The rest is left up to our imaginations. But let's look at a couple of intimate things that may help with that first night.

Women, physical contact starts in a man’s mind. During the wedding you have been thinking about all sorts of things while he has only been thinking of one thing--his first encounter with you to gratify a burning desire that has been building up in him since puberty. So on the first night it will not take much to light his fire.

Men, women are a little more complicated than we are. If you do not know this yet you will soon. While you have been only thinking of one thing for weeks, she has been busy thinking of many things from every minute detail of the wedding to each piece of clothing she would pack for the honeymoon. Having physical contact may not even have crossed her mind.

For women physical starts emotionally. Her emotional needs have to be met before she is ready physically. Her mind needs to be cleared of all the excitement that has been going on. After the wedding she will be emotionally and physically drained.

I would say it would be best if you even gave your new wife a night or two off so she can let the emotional and physical weariness of the wedding wash off of her as it is replaced with the details of the new marriage. Get to know your wife emotionally before making physical contact. Then that first encounter will be a night to remember.

And after that first encounter, you will need to hold your wife and cuddle with her. Hopefully you have been able to go somewhere that is quiet, no T.V., no phone and a nice fireplace with a big old soft bear rug…

The First Marriage:

The first marriage was divine. There were no dishes or clothes to wash for they ran around without clothes and china had yet to be invented.

There was no food to prepare--it was already prepared--just needed to be picked. No children, no in-laws, no PTA meetings, no sports activities. There were none of the things that we have today that rob a man and wife of being together. There was no money--no need for it so no fighting over money. It was just heavenly.

I imagine Adam and Eve running through fields of flowers, naked, without any concern at all. And I am sure that back then just as today, Adam had only one thing on his mind.

The First Advice:

Men, let me leave you with the following:

1. The wife is always right. 2. Prepare to go shopping even if you do not like shopping. 3. Refer back to one and two.

Women, let me leave you with the following:

1. Never refuse your husband. 2. Always speak kindly to him as an equal and not as a mother. 3. Refer back to one and two.

If you will follow these simply rules, you will have a marriage made in Heaven.