WEDDING CEREMONY PROGRAM (NAME OF COUPLE) PROGRAME I. PHOTO SHOOT: Groom & Bride & Mizpah - Witness - Abay II . CANDLES III. ENTOURAGE instrumental Rev . Nilo A. Buiser , Groom , Witnesse, Secondary witness, Flower Girls , Brides Maide , Bride IV. SONG : Rev. Alfredo D. Leneses - “ You are so Beautiful to me “ minus one V. VI. OPRAYER : Jhona Sarmiento MESSAGE : Rev. Nilo Buiser VII. SYMBOLS : Ring - Bible - Candles W/ Song Forever more Camille Robellos , Vail - Cord - Gift ( W/ Song Mula noon Hanggan ngayon Azur Da ) - Money Tree W / Song Azur Da , Camille Robelos VII. PRAYER DECLARATION w/ Witnes & Congregation VIII. PICTORIAL : Bride Groom w/ Mizpah - Parents - Witneses , Abay , Freinds , Church , *EXIT SECOND PART I. MODELING / DANCE : II. Photo shoot 1. Grom Bridal w/ Rev. Nilo Buiser 2. Groom Bridal & witnesses 3. Secondary sponsors 4. Parents 5. Relatives 6. Friends 7. Church III. CAKES & WINEIntro Today is a day to celebrate. We are celebrating the love, commitment, and friendship of two people who love each other and wish to spend the rest of their lives together. The marriage ceremony is a significant part of nearly every culture, religion, generation, and society. Despite all of our differences, we all share the love. Love is the great unifier, regardless of who we are, where we’ve come from or what we believe in. We can all describe love in many ways and love can look different from one person to the other, but we all know love when we see it. And we can see love right here. 1. Prelude: Music 1. Processional Entourage III Minister’s Introduction (No music) Pastor: Mga minamahal, tayo ay nangagkakatipon ngayon upang ipagdiwang ang isang pagtatalaga ng pag-ibig, isang tipan na pinaniniwalaan nina CHRISTOPHER TEJADA at JACQUELINE OCDAMIA na mula sa patnubay ng Banal na Espirito. IV Opening Prayer / Scripture Reading Pastor: Sino ang nagbibigay pahintulot kay JANICA BENITEZ upang maging asawa ni DANILO SIBUG Prayer by Pastor Emcee: Please remain standing for the reading of the Holy Scriptures. Scripture Reading: (name of scripture reading) Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 9Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. 10 For if they fall , one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when falls and has not another to lift him up. 11Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? 12 And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken. Genesis 2:18 ..it is not good for man to be alone.. Synergy (productive) Sleep (sound) (warmth) Strength (protection) Benison & April, it seemed like yesterday when the two of you met each other. Now, you are going to be joined together in this divine mystery called marriage. I’d like to tell you that marriage is an action word. You have to act on it. You have to work on it for the rest of your lives. I’d like to share with you three acts of marriage based on the Word of God. First, Marriage is Giving Sacrificial Love. In Eph. 5:25, Paul said, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church.” He then explained how Christ showed this love. Paul said that Christ “gave himself for” the church. He sacrificed himself on the cross. This love therefore is a self-sacrificial love. It is a self-sacrificial love that is rooted on the cross. Love then is a self-giving love patterned after the cross. Paul does not define love as a rush of romantic hormones. Instead, love here is the self-sacrifice of yourself for your beloved. It is a decision to nail your selfishness to the cross, so to speak, while giving your love to the one you love. It is a decision to give up your selfishness for the sake of the one you love. This is the kind of love that you should love each other. Notice that love here is not conditional or situational. You should love each other, not because he or she gives you pleasure, but because you want to give yourself up to each other. I’ve been reading about a woman with Alzheimer’s disease. She does not recognize her husband. She can give no romance, no sex, no laughter, no tears, and no companionship to her husband. But that is the point of marriage. The point of marriage is not to love each other because each is useful to the other. The point of marriage is to love each other with self-sacrificial love unconditionally. The time may come when he no longer excites you, when her manners offend you, when she is not the person of your dreams. But then you will love each other, not because she is useful to you, but because you want to sacrifice yourself for her. Love is giving yourself up for each other. That is how Christ loved the church. And that is how you should love each other. Second, Marriage is Keeping Covenant. In Eph. 5:31, Paul quotes Gen. 2:24, “For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.” Then he interprets it in v. 32, “This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.” In the marriage of Christ and the church, Christ is spiritually united with the church as His bride and body. But what kind of relationship is the union of Christ and the church? It is a covenant relationship. It is a covenant relationship sealed with blood—His own blood. Christ said, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood” (Lk. 22:20). That is what Paul is saying in Eph. 5:32. Marriage is based on that covenant relationship between Christ and the church. It is a covenant sealed in blood. This means that the marriage covenant is unbreakable, as John Piper points out. As Christ’s covenant with the church is unbreakable, so is the marriage covenant also unbreakable. Marriage, therefore, is keeping covenant, to use Piper’s words. Marriage is not just about keeping the fire of love burning. It is about keeping covenant. Therefore, when the day comes when you will fight each other, and it will come, remember that your marriage is keeping covenant. Benison, when you look at another woman, remember that marriage is keeping covenant. April when you look at another man, remember that marriage is keeping covenant. When the day comes when he is not as exciting as he used to be, or she is not as sexy as she used to be, remember, marriage is about keeping covenant. Never allow anyone or anything to break that covenant. Your purpose in marriage is to keep the covenant. Third, and last, Marriage is Seeking Your Happiness in Your Partner’s Happiness. Eph. 5:26-27, Paul said that Christ gave Himself for the church, so that He can sanctify her and present her spotless. In other words, Christ sought His satisfaction in the sanctification of His bride, the church. He was most satisfied in the spotlessness of His beloved. Practically speaking, you should seek your joy in the joy of your beloved. Benison you will find your happiness when April is happiest. So find your happiness by trying to make her happy! The problem with so many marriages today is that the husband seeks his own happiness, but he does not seek it in the happiness of his wife. The wife seeks her own happiness, but not in the happiness of her husband. But love seeks its happiness in the happiness of the beloved. Yet the key to seeking her happiness is the sacrifice of your selfishness. When you sacrifice your selfishness, you will seek her happiness. When you seek her happiness, you will be happy. You will be most happy when your beloved is most happy. I share your joy on your special day today. Wedding days are always joyful days. God has made it so. Beloved, let us all rejoice, then, as we join this loving couple on their day of marriage. This reading is from the book of Genesis 2:18-24 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam[a] no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[b] and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[c] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. Father forgive them… Emcee: Please be seated Wedding Address: Pastor (preaching 5-10min) 1. VI Exchange of Vows Pastor: DANY at JANICA kung paanong pinagbuklod ng pag-ibig ang inyong mga puso, maaaring pagdaupin ninyo ang inyong mga kamay. ? These are the hands of your best friend. They are strong and vibrant with love these hands, which are resting in yours on this wedding day, are the hands of the one whom is promising to love you for all the remaining days of your life. These are the hands, which will work along side you and will build your future, as you laugh and cry as you share your innermost secrets and dreams. These are the hands, which will passionately love and cherish you throughout the years the same hands will wipe away tears of sorrow and tears of joy from your eyes. These are the hands which will comfort you in times of illness and which will hold you when grief intrudes your home. These are the hands, which will tenderly lift your chin and brush your cheek as they raise your face to look into his eyes eyes that will be filled with passion for you. I dos Officiant: Jeff/ "Will you have Abby/Jeff this (woman/man) to be your (wife/husband), to live together in holy marriage? Will you love (her/him), comfort (her/him), honor, and keep (her/him) in sickness and in health, and forsaking all others, be faithful to (her/him) as long as you both shall live?" Having affirmed your love for each other, please say this vow.. Vows I, ROBERT ENDOZ/Jania Mendoza______ , take you, to be my (wife/husband), and these things I promise you: I will be faithful to you and honest with you; I will respect, trust, help, and care for you; I will share my life with you; I will forgive you as we have been forgiven; and I will try with you better to understand ourselves, the world, and God; through the best and worst of what is to come, and as long as we live. (Name of Groom), DANILO SIBUG taimtim ka bang nangangako sa harap ng Dios at nitong mga saksi, na iibigin mo si JANICA BENITEZ (Name of Bride), igagalang siya, aaliwin at pakamamahalin habang ikaw ay nabubuhay? Groom: Opo Pastor Pastor : JANICA BENITEZ (Name of bride), taimtim ka bang nangangako ka sa harap ng Dios at nitong mga saksi, na iibigin mo si DANILO SIBUG (Name of groom), igagalang siya, aaliwin at pakamamahalin habang ikaw ay nabubuhay? Bride: Opo pastor Pastor: Groom: ________________. Noong araw ng ating kasal, sumumpa ako na ikaw lang ang aking mamahalin, sa hirap at ginhawa, sa sakit at kalusugan. Ang mga nagdaang taon ang sumubok at naging saksi rin kung paanong nabigo at pinilit kong tuparun ang mga pangakong iyon…sa huli, ang ating nananatiling pag-ibig ang nagdala sa atin sa oras na ito. Tumatayo ako ngayon para sa panibagong simula ang muling sikapin na tuparin ang pangakong imaw lang ang mamahalin magpakailanman. Tinatanggap kita upang maging aking asawa., Upang mahawakan ka mula sa araw na ito at magpakailanman. Sa hirap o ginhawa, sa sakit o kalusugan, upang aliwin ka ng aking hindi nagmamaliw na pag-ibig at katapatan , hangang sa tayo ay papaghiwalayin ng ng kamatayan. Bride: ________________. Pinagpala ako na maging kabiyak mo, sa Dios ang lahat na pasalamat na sa loob ng maraming taon magkasama tayong humarap sa lahat ng tagumpay at minsa’y kabiguan na kasama ang Maykapal. Muli ang aking pangako, kasama ng buo kung pagkatao…ikaw at ikaw lamqng ang mamahalin at iibigin sa buong buhay ko. Tinatanggap kita upang maging aking asawa., Upang mahawakan ka mula sa araw na ito at magpakailanman. Sa hirap o ginhawa, sa sakit o kalusugan, upang aliwin ka ng aking hindi nagmamaliw na pag-ibig at katapatan , hangang sa tayo ay papaghiwalayin ng kamatayan. VII Personal Vows Pastor: You may now share your personal vows with each other. Groom: (say vow to bride) Bride: (say vow to groom) VIII Ring Ceremony Pastor: May we have the rings please. (ring bearer gives rings) Pastor: The rings are symbols of the covenant that groom and bride are entering into and establishing this day. In many Western cultures, the ring finger is designated as the fourth finger on the left hand. The tradition of wearing a wedding ring on this digit originated from the belief that this finger has a vein running directly to the heart. KASAMA NG SINGSING NA ITO ANG AKING ( PINAGTIBAY NA) PANGAKO NA HINDI KANA MAG-IISA. WALA AKONG MARANGYANG KALOOB NA MAIBIBIGAY KUNDI ANG AKING PUSO NA MAGING TAHANAN MO NAWA AT ANG AKING MGA KAMAY NA IYONG KANLUNGAN. LUMAKAD NAWA TAYONG MAGKASAMA SA LAHAT NG PANAHON MARAMDAMAN MONG IKAW AY INIIBIG, PAGKAT IYON ANG TOTOO. NAGPAPAKASAL AKO SA YO, SA NGALAN NG AMA, NG ANAK AT ESPIRITO SANTO. AMEN IX Coin Ceremony (Coin bearer gives the coins to groom) Groom: Bride, I give you these coins as a pledge of my dedication to kour welfare in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Veil & Cord Ceremony Song: Cherish the Treasure VEIL (Sponsors place veil on Groom’s right shoulder and over Bride’s veil) CORD Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (NKJV) 9 Two are better than one, Because they have a good reward for their labor. 10 For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, For he has no one to help him up. 11 Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; But how can one be warm alone? 12 Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken. (Sponsors place the cord over (Name of Couple’s) shoulder) The cord symbolizes that marriage is a lifelong and unbreakable bond. By tying these two people together, we are affirming the Biblical teaching that God intended marriage to last a lifetime. (End Music) XI Presentation of the Bible (Bible bearer give the Bible to Ptr.) Pastor: Danilo Sibug at Janica Benitez matapos ninyong ihayag ang mga pangako at pag ibig sa isat isa, at ang pangako na magmamahalan ng tapat, sa kapangyarihang ibinigay sa akin ng Dios bilang ministro ng kanyang Salita at sa kapangyarihan ng batas ng Republika ng Pilipinas, sa pamamagitan ng Assembly of the Redeemed Church, ipinahahayag ko ngayon na si DANILO SIBUG at JANICA BENITEZ ay mag asawa na.. Jeff and Abby..now that we have heard your pledges of affection, and you vows of fidelity, by the authority conferred upon me by God as His minister through the Assembly of the Redeemed Church, and by the laws of the Republic of the Philippines, I pronounce you husband and wife. You are no longer two but one, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Brothers and siSTers, I now present to you Mr. aND MRS. DANILO SIBUG DANY AND JANI Numbers 6:24-26 24 “‘“The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26 the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.”’ Pagpalain at ingatan nawa kayo ng Panginoon Paliwanagin nawa ng Panginoon ang mukha niya sa inyo at mahabag sa inyo Ilingap nawa ng Dios ang kanyang mukha sa inyo at bigyan kayo ng kapayapaan groom, you may now kiss your bride! Start Music, until end of picture taking XXI Picture Taking