The livestream of our wedding can be seen from the folowing link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZosYPl7dLH4

Order of Service

Entrance of the Bride

Trumpet Voluntary John Stanley (1712 – 1786)

Introduction and Welcome

Opening Carol

Once in Royal David’s City

Solo Once in royal David’s city
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a mother laid her baby
In a manger for His bed:
Mary was that Mother mild,
Jesus Christ her little Child.

Choir He came down to earth from heaven
Who is God and Lord of all,
And His shelter was a stable,
And His cradle was a stall:
With the poor, and meek, and lowly,
Lived on earth our Saviour holy.

All And through all His wondrous childhood,

He would honour and obey,

Love and watch the lowly maiden,

In whose gentle arms He lay:

Christian children all must be

Mild, obedient, good as He.

For He is our childhood’s pattern,

Day by day like us He grew,

He was little, weak, and helpless,

Tears and smiles like us He knew:

And He feeleth for our sadness,

And He shareth in our gladness.

And our eyes at last shall see Him,
Through His own redeeming love,

For that Child so dear and gentle,
Is our Lord in heav'n above:
And He leads His children on
To the place where He is gone.

Not in that poor lowly stable,
With the oxen standing by,
We shall see Him, but in heaven,
Set at God’s right hand on high,
When like stars His children crowned,
All in white shall wait around.

Words: Cecil Frances Alexander (1818 – 1895), Music: Irby by Henry John Gauntlett (1805 – 1876)

Opening Prayer

First Reading

A reading from the Book of Ruth 1: 1-22

RUTH AND NAOMI

In the days of the Judges famine came to the land;

And a certain man from Bethlehem of Judah went - he, his wife and his two sons - to live in the country of Moab.

Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died, and she and her two sons were left. These married Moabite women, one was named Orpah, and the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years.

Then both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman was bereft of her two sons and her husband. So she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard that the Lord had visited his people and given them food.

Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law and went back to her people, but Ruth clung to her. Naomi said to her, "Look, Your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. You must return too. Follow your sister-in-law!"

But Ruth said, "Do not press me to leave you and to turn back from your company! For wherever you go, I will go, wherever you live, I will live, your people shall be my people, and your God my God."

This was how Naomi, she who returned from the country of Moab, came back with Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

The word of the Lord.

Response: Thanks be to God

Psalm

Ecce sic benedicetur Cristóbal de Morales (1500 – 1553)

Ecce sic benedicetur omnis homo qui timet Dominum:
et videas filios filiorum tuorum.
Pax super Israel.
Alleluia, alleluia.

Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears the Lord:
May you see your children's children.
Peace be upon Israel.
Alleluia, alleluia.

Second Reading

A reading from the first letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 12:31-13:8

Be ambitious for the higher gifts. And I am going to show you a way that is better than any of them.

If I have all the eloquence of men or of angels, but speak without love, I am simply a gong booming or a cymbal clashing.

If I have the gift of prophecy, understanding all the mysteries there are, and knowing everything, and if I have faith in all its fullness, to move mountains, but without love, then I am nothing at all.

If I give away all that I possess, piece by piece, and if I even let them take my body to burn it, but am without love, it will do me no good whatever.

Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offence, and is not resentful.

Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.

Love does not come to an end.

The word of the Lord.

R: Thanks be to God

Gospel Acclamation

Alleluia

Exsultate justi in Domino Lodovico da Viadana (1560 – 1627)

Exsultate justi in Domino, rectos decet collaudatio.

Confitemini Domino, in cithara; in psalterio decem chordarum psallite illi.

Cantate ei canticum novum: bene psallite ei in vociferatione.

Rejoice in the Lord, O ye just; praise befits the upright.
Give praise to the Lord, on the harp; sing to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings.
Sing to him a new canticle, sing well unto him with a loud noise.

Gospel

A reading from the holy Gospel according to John 2:1-11

R: Glory to you, O Lord.

There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee.

The mother of Jesus was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited. When they ran out of wine, since the wine provided for the wedding was all finished, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ Jesus said, ‘Woman why turn to me? My hour has not come yet.’ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ There were six stone water jars standing there, meant for the ablutions that are customary among the Jews: each could hold twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, ‘Fill the jars with water,’ and they filled them to the brim. ‘Draw some out now’ he told them, ‘and take it to the steward.’ They did this; the steward tasted the water, and it had turned into wine. Having no idea where it came from — only the servants who had drawn the water knew — the steward called the bridegroom and said, ‘People generally serve the best wine first, and keep the cheaper sort till the guests have had plenty to drink, but you have kept the best wine till now.’

This was the first of the signs given by Jesus: it was given at Cana in Galilee. He let his glory be seen, and his disciples believed in him.

The Gospel of the Lord.

R: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Homily

The Rite of Marriage

Exchange of Vows

Blessing and exchange of rings

Bidding Prayers

Celebrant: Dear brothers and sisters, let us accompany this new family with our prayers, that the mutual love of this couple may grow daily and that God in his kindness will sustain all families throughout the world. That he will bless their covenant as he chose to sanctify marriage at Cana in Galilee, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, we ask you,

People: hear our prayer.

Celebrant: For their relatives and friends, and for all who have assisted this couple, let us pray to the Lord.