Crafting a Christ-Centered Wedding - 5 Meaningful Ways to Incorporate Your Faith Into Your Ceremony
Celebrating marriage is, in its own right, a very biblical event - in fact, it’s one of the very things we’ll be doing in eternity, at the marriage supper of the Lamb and the Bride!
An earthly covenant mirroring this divine relationship between God and His people is a beautiful and sacred event - but the reason that this is so sacred is often watered down by the world, and the visuals amped up for public appreciation.
Do you want to ensure that your wedding is visually rooted in its original meaning, per the Bible? We’ve gathered some ideas that can help weave your ceremony & reception with the threads of the truest love to ever exist - the love found in our Friend, Savior & King.
Our Top 5 Christ-Centered Wedding Ideas
🌸 Inspire your wedding decor with beautiful verses🌸
From banners to wedding favors to vows to table decor, there are tons of ways you can visually weave in some of your favorite verses in the decor of your ceremony/reception. These verses could be specifically about love & marriage or verses that simply encourage you on your big day!
Some wedding-appropriate verses are:
I have found the one whom my soul loves - Song of Solomon 3:4
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Genesis 2:4
Love hopes all things - 1 Corinthians 13:7
(More verses related to marriage here)
🌸 Feature a cord of three strands🌸
I don’t know who first came up with this, but it really is quite a wonderful idea! The visual depiction of God as the ‘third strand’ drives home how intertwined God is in the marriage union.
The perfect way to bring to life Ecclesiastes 4:12!
🌸 Walk down the aisle to a favorite hymn🌸
What music could be more fitting to herald the transition from single-hood to marital bliss than a glorious hymn! “Great is Thy Faithfulness’, The Lord’s my Shepherd’, ‘Come to a Wedding’ - there is a treasure trove of hymns that set just the right tone for the rest of your lives together.
Check out some more classic wedding hymns here.
🌸 Have a prayer wall🌸
Asking guests to pray for your marriage, and attaching their prayers to a prayer wall/board is a beautiful way to engage spiritually with your friends and family. Tip - the prayer tags could be sent in advance with the RSVP so your guests have the time & space to think out and pray their unique prayer for you!
How encouraging it would be to step into your new life with blessings and powerful requests sent on your behalf to the Almighty!
🌸 Serve others🌸
I recently read of a couple who insisted on serving food to the waitstaff who served their guests. Others have had slices of wedding cake delivered to hospitals and similar places. Clearly, these couples realized how beautiful it was to engage in acts of service to others, even while being celebrated as the VIPs of the day! While the secular world tends to make the wedding day wholly devoted to the bride & groom (well, mostly to the bride), it is a refreshing change for a Christ-centered couple to step out of the limelight and step into the deep care and humility that our Lord Himself showed us.
There are so many ways to creatively acknowledge God with the skills and talents He has given us. We hope the few options we’ve mentioned has fired up your inspiration in planning your own faith-filled wedding!