Occasion HandbookWeddings 13 examples

Christian Wedding Card Messages

For a couple you know shares the faith. If you are unsure, a plain congratulation is the better card.

Short blessings

  1. 1 Wishing you both every blessing as you begin your life together.
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  2. 2 Praying for you both today and for all the years after it.
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  3. 3 May your home be a place of peace and welcome. Congratulations.
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  4. 4 So happy for you both. We will keep praying for you.
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  5. 5 With our love and our prayers on your wedding day.
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Longer, for people you know well

  1. 6 Watching you build your faith together over these years has been a genuine privilege. Congratulations to you both.
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  2. 7 Your home has already been a place people are looked after in. May the marriage be the same.
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  3. 8 Wishing you a marriage built on patience and grace, and plenty of laughter alongside them.
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Scripture often chosen

Quoted from the King James Version, which is in the public domain. Modern translations are copyrighted — take those from your own Bible.

  1. 9 Ecclesiastes 4:9 — "Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour." (KJV)
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  2. 10 Colossians 3:14 — "And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness." (KJV)
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  3. 11 1 Corinthians 13 — the passage on love, read at more weddings than any other.
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When you are unsure of their faith

  1. 12 Congratulations to you both. Wishing you every happiness.
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  2. 13 So happy for you both, and wishing you every good thing.
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Questions people actually ask

What Bible verse suits a wedding card?

Ecclesiastes 4:9 and Colossians 3:14 are the two most often chosen for cards, because both are short enough to sit alongside a line of your own.