Scottish Wedding Prayers And Blessings: Marriage is a lasting promise and the wedding is the beginning of your union as man and wife. As you exchange rings with your beloved you feel a sense of oneness, a union of souls. Say these selected traditional Scottish Prayers Blessings in your Wedding Ceremony as a couple to open the door to God’s power in your marriage.
A wedding ceremony can be religious or non-religious, it all depends on the bride and groom’s preference. As you begin your new life together cherish each other with open hearts. On this page are several good prayers and blessings for saying at your wedding reception. Happy married life in advance!
A thousand welcomes to you with your marriage kerchief,
May you be healthy all your days.
May you be blessed with long life and peace,
May you grow old with goodness, and with riches.
May you both be blessed with the fortitude of heaven, the brightness of the Sun, and the brilliance of the moon. May you have the magnificence of fire, speed of lightning, quickness of wind, depth of the sea, stability of Earth, and the sturdiness of rock.
May your joys be as sweet as the flowers that blossom in spring and as radiant as the summer Sun. May the shower of autumn leaves bring to you faith and fortune, and may your love be resilient amidst the long winter nights.
May the blessing of light be on you, light without and light within. May the blessed sunlight shine on you like a great peat fire, so that stranger and friend may come and warm himself at it. And may light shine out of the two eyes of you, like a candle set in the window of a house, bidding the wanderer come in out of the storm. And may the blessing of the rain be on you, may it beat upon your Spirit and wash it fair and clean, and leave there a shining pool where the blue of Heaven shines, and sometimes a star. And may the blessing of the earth be on you, soft under your feet as you pass along the roads, soft under you as you lie out on it, tired at the end of day; and may it rest easy over you when, at last, you lie out under it. May it rest so lightly over you that your soul may be out from under it quickly; up and off and on its way to God. And now may the Lord bless you, and bless you kindly.
Dear God,
Help us remember when we first met and the secure love that grew between us; to channel that love into practical things so that it can only grow stronger.
We ask for kind and loving words, and we ask for hearts with a never-ending capacity to forgive and ask forgiveness.
Lord, we put our marriage in Your ever-loving hands.
“May God be with you and bless you,
May you see your children’s children.
May you be poor in misfortunes and rich in blessings,
May you know nothing but happiness
From this day forward.”
May there always be work for your hands to do.
May your purse always hold a coin or two.
May the sun always shine upon your window pane.
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near to you and
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
May the blessing of light be on you, light outside and light within. May the blessed sunlight shine down on you like a great fire, so that strangers and friends alike may come and warm themselves with it. And may you two be a beacon of light for everyone around you, like a candle set by the window of a house, bidding the wanderer take shelter from the storm.
And may the blessing of the rain be on you; may it wash your Spirit fair and clean, leaving a shining pool where the blue of Heaven shines. May the blessing of the earth be on you, soft under your feet as you walk along the roads, soft under you as you lie on it when you are tired at the end of the day.
May the Lord bless you and bless you kindly.
(from “Mystery on the Isle of Skye”)
“If there is righteousness in the heart,
There will be beauty in the character.
If there is beauty in the character,
There will be harmony in the home.
If there is harmony in the home,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world.
So let it be, Lord.
Amen.”
A blessing in Scottish Gaelic Mi\le fa\ilte dhuit le d’bhre/id, Fad do re/ gun robh thu sla\n. Mo/ran la\ithean dhuit is si\th, Le d’mhaitheas is le d’ni\ bhi fa\s.
Translated into English as: “A thousand welcomes to you with your marriage kerchief, May you be healthy all your days. May you be blessed with long life and peace, May you grow old with goodness, and with riches.”