Wedding Ceremony Readings

Some additional wedding ceremony readings that may be read during your wedding follow.

Choose some of them if you would like something a little different, yet meaningful, read at your wedding.

Ruth 1:16-17 is actually spoken by a daughter-in-law to her mother-in-law, but the wording is appropriate for a married couple:

"...Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." Ruth 1:16-17 NIV

King James puts these verses in poetic form:

"Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: they people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

Where thou diest, wil I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me." Ruth 1:16-17 KJV

Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine at a wedding in John 2:1-11. These non-traditional wedding ceremony readings show how important marriage is to the Lord, that he would take important time out of his ministry to attend a wedding and to make sure that the happy couple was not humiliated because there was not enough wine to give to their guests.

Back then, wedding festivities lasted for days. If food and drink ran out, it was an embarrassment for the host.

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