Our Marriage Liturgy
Note: Since our marriage, there are some very minor changes I’d recommend to the liturgy. If the communion can be restricted to the clergy, betrothed couple, and wedding party, then removing the exhortation and perhaps the offertory song (i.e., Ps. 67) would shorten the service. This ceremony, as is, took 1.15 hrs. With above changes, it would prove slightly less than an hour.
Charles and Amanda
BIDDING THE BANNS ¶ to be announced by the minister three Christian Sabbaths before the date of marriage
I PUBLISH the Banns of Marriage between Mr. Charles Bartlett of Glenmoor, Fremont CA and Ms. Amanda Kruse of Almaden, San Jose CA. If any of you know just cause, or just impediment, why these two persons should not be joined together in holy Matrimony, ye are to declare it: This is the first [second, or third] time of asking.
¶ And if the persons that are to be married dwell in divers Parishes, the Banns must be asked in both Parishes; and the Curate of the one Parish shall not Solemnize Matrimony between them, without a Certificate of the Banns bid three consecutive Sundays before the marriage date [Aug. 14th]. Read the rest of this entry »
Trinitytide
Greetings in the name of Bunny Revolution!
the coming betrothal
Perhaps trinitytide is too long a season to give a single post. But, given I haven’t kept up this blog perhaps it’s for the best. I had to replace a digital camera but also just plain busy. I have some big events coming up. I will be getting married August 14th (we were engaged on the Saturday before the first Sunday in Advent). The marriage service is scheduled for the morning before the vigil of St. Mary, and the TEC priest is letting me pick the liturgy for Amanda and myself. I am using the 1928 ‘blended’ into the same antecommunion. The sermon will be a slightly edited homily given for marriage in the 1662 w/ some Jeremy Taylor mixed in and a portion of the bidding prayer from 1928. The vows are unequal, also from 1662. We have dual rings, kept the blessing of the rings, and I took the third exhortation (a bit shortened) from 1928 between the whole church prayer and confession. I really love this exhortation, and we will have several Reformed friends there (two pastors) along with unchurch family members we’d like to see evangelized. Amanda is excited about the reception and ceremony too. Her grandma and she picked the hymns, ‘O perfect Love’, and ‘St. Magaret’. We’ve also added Ps. 128 from the Geneva psalter. Read the rest of this entry »
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