Irish Marriage Blessing

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.

UNION

You have ravished my heart with one look of your eyes...

My sister my spouse.

How beautiful are your breasts...

Your lips my bride drip as the honeycomb...

my sister my spouse is an enclosed garden.

Song of Songs 4:2-12

UNION

Shadows of the mystical union renewed

You roll into my hungry arms

Face to face

How do i describe this

God i want you more now 

Than the 1st time our eyes locked

All the things you are

 I long to absorb thru your fragrant lips

Like some kind of sensual osmosis

Gazing  into the deep clear pools  of your eyes

Free falling through your soul

Two become one

Wound in a scarlet cord

Ever grateful you wear my ring

       BC           7/96

Mary and i  are celebrating 40 years of wedded Love this weekend surrounded by friends who are family and family who are friends

graphic: our wedding bands

Gaelic Wedding Blessing

June traditionally is the beginning of the wedding "season". So hear is an old Scottish Wedding Blessing.

In the 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 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."

attributed to the Rev. Donald MacLeod, minister of Duirinish, Skye, Scotland c. 1760.

Graphic: David Allan's painting, 'A Highland Wedding at Blair Atholl', painted in the 1780

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New and Present Home Blessings

A blessing upon your new home,
A blessing upon your new hearth,
A blessing upon your new dwelling,
Upon your newly-kindled fire.

A blessing upon your tallest grass
A blessing upon your fruitful partner
A blessing upon your growing son
Upon your growing daughter.

A blessing upon the household's helpers,
A blessing upon the children yet unborn,
A blessing upon the wise parents,
Upon your occupation.

A blessing upon your goods and income,
A blessing upon your kith and kin.
A blessing upon you in light or darkness,
Each day and night of your lives.


God Bless This House
From site to stay,
From beam to wall,
From end to end,
From ridge to basement,
From balk to roof-tree,
From found to summit.

BLESS, O GOD, THE DWELLING
Bless, O God, the dwelling,
And each who rests herein this night;
Bless, O God, my dear ones
In every place wherein they sleep;
In the night that is tonight,
And every single night;
In the day that is today,
And every single day.

A Very Old Celtic Wedding Blessing

May God be with you and bless you.

May you see your children's children.

May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings.

May you know nothing but happiness From this day forward.