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PRELUDE

Seat family members around 10:50-10:55 during prelude music

Thaxted Tune (O God Beyond All Praising)

Minister and groom enter

The Bride and groom request that out of respect for this covenant ceremony you please put away and silence all electronic devices and do not take photos or videos.

Serenade, Instrumental from Importance of Being Earnest

Wedding Party Entrance (2 bridesmaids, 2 groomsmen)

BRIDAL PROCESSIONAL

St. George’s Windsor (1 verse) (Instrumental of #552 Trinity Psalter Hymnal)

Seat the congregation once Acacia and Derick reach the end of the aisle

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here in the presence of God and these witnesses to join this man and this woman in holy matrimony.

God the Father instituted marriage at the beginning in the Garden of Eden, before sin entered the world.

He said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

God then created a woman out of the man’s own substance and brought her to him.

God the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, honored marriage by His presence and first miracle at the wedding in Cana of Galilee.

He declared marriage to be a union that must not be severed when He said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

So they are no longer two but one flesh.

What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

God the Holy Spirit also exalted marriage when He inspired the Apostle Paul to liken marriage to the mystical union that exists between Christ and His redeemed bride, the church, saying, "This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.”

Our Triune God has designed marriage to enrich the lives of all who wed, for the orderly propagation of the human race, for the avoidance of sexual immorality, and as a picture of the grace that we have received in Jesus, all to the glory of the covenant God.

Since marriage is created by God and for His glory, husbands and wives have responsibilities in marriage given to us by God Himself.

The Scripture says, “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her.”

The husband is to love his wife as his own body, to care for her, and to cherish her.

The Scripture also says, “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, His body, and is Himself its Savior.

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.”

The wife is to submit to her husband, to respect him, and to entrust herself to his loving care.

Both husbands and wives are to be faithful to each other, to assist each other in all good things, to heartily forgive each other their sins and shortcomings, and to love each other as themselves.

Thus united in love, they will more and more reflect in their marriage the unity of Christ and His church.

Into this high and holy calling, Dietrich Fassero and Acacia Dickens come now to be joined.

If anyone can show just cause why they may not lawfully be married, let him now declare it, or else hereafter forever hold his peace.

Five second pause

If either of you knows any reason why you may not be lawfully joined together in marriage, confess it now.

Five second pause

Dietrich, will you have this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife, to live together after God’s ordinance in the holy estate of marriage?

And will you love her as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her, will you comfort her, honor and cherish her, and forsaking all others keep yourself only unto her as long as you both shall live?

Dietrich answers, “I will.”

Acacia, will you have this man to be your lawfully wedded husband, to live together after God’s ordinance in the holy estate of marriage?

And will you love him, comfort him, respect and submit to him even as the church submits to Christ, and forsaking all others keep yourself only unto him as long as you both shall live?

Acacia answers, “I will.”

Who gives this woman to be married to this man?

Derick answers, “I do.”

Derick places Acacia’s right hand in the Dietrich’s hand and is seated.

Let’s pray...

Praise the Father for the gift of marriage

Praise the Son for His redeeming love to which marriage points

Praise the Spirit for causing Dietrich and Acacia to be born again, and filling them so they can faithfully keep the vows they’re about to make

Please stand and sing with us.

Be Thou My Vision (all 5 verses)

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;

naught be all else to me, save that thou art.

Thou my best thought, by day or by night,

waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

2 Be thou my wisdom, and thou my true word;

I ever with thee, and thou with me, Lord.

Thou my great Father, I thy true son

thou in me dwelling and I one with thee.

3 Be thou my battle shield, sword for my fight.

Be thou my dignity, thou my delight,

thou my soul’s shelter, thou my high tow’r.

Raise thou me heav’nward, O Pow’r of my pow’r.

4 Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise;

thou mine inheritance, now and always.

Thou and thou only, first in my heart,

High King of heaven, my treasure thou art.

5 High King of heaven, my victory won

may I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heav’n’s Sun!

Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,

still be my vision, O Ruler of all.

The Church’s One Foundation (all 6 verses)

The Church's one foundation

is Jesus Christ, her Lord;

she is his new creation

by water and the Word.

From heav'n he came and sought her

to be his holy bride;

with his own blood he bought her,

and for her life he died.

2 Elect from ev'ry nation,

yet one o'er all the earth;

her charter of salvation:

one Lord, one faith, one birth.

One holy name she blesses,

partakes one holy food,

and to one hope she presses,

with ev'ry grace endued.

3 Though with a scornful wonder

men see her sore oppressed,

by schisms rent asunder,

by heresies distressed,

yet saints their watch are keeping;

their cry goes up, "How long?"

and soon the night of weeping

shall be the morn of song.

4 The Church shall never perish.

Her dear Lord to defend,

to guide, sustain, and cherish,

is with her to the end.

Tho' there be those that hate her