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The Opening Prayer

Tips for your Christian Wedding Ceremony

By Mary Fairchild, About.com

Prayer is an essential ingredient to worship and a fitting way to open any worship experience. In a Christian wedding ceremony, the beginning prayer or "invocation" asks for God's presence and blessing to be upon the service which is about to begin.

Here are sample prayers to use, or you may wish to modify them and create your own. Likewise, you may wish for the minister performing your ceremony to pray spontaneously.

• Check out these Samples of the Opening Prayer.

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