Advice on orders of service
The Rite of Marriage
Below is an example of information you may wish to include in your order of service for your wedding. Your priest will meet with you to help you prepare your order of service, the choice of readings and the make up of the mass booklet.
How It Will Unfold
Introductory Rites
Opening Hymn or Entrance Antiphon
Liturgical Greeting
Penitential Rite (The Priest speaks to the couple and all present in order to prepare them for the celebration of Marriage)
Gloria
The Liturgy of the Word
There may be three readings in the Liturgy of the Word, the first of them from the Old Testament
The Rite of Marriage
Declaration of Consent
Blessing of Rings
Exchange of Tokens (optional)/Candle Ceremony (optional)/Prayer of the Newly Married Couple (optional)
Prayer of the Faithful
Liturgy of the Eucharist (The gifts of bread and wine are brought to the altar)
Prayers over the Offerings
Eucharistic Prayer
Communion Rite
Communion Antiphon
The Concluding Rites
Solemn Blessing
Dismissal
(The Marriage Registration Form is now signed in or near the sacristy)
Then the newly married couple process out of the Church together
Hymn or piece of music