Wedding Hymns

This is a collection of wedding hymns that are based on familiar hymn tunes or folk tunes. The midi files are quite variable. Please don’t be put off by them. If you have anything to add, please email me.

Where Love is Found
tune: O Waly Waly
Laudate vol. 1, 415 Decani Music
words: Brian wren

1. When love is found and hope comes home,
   come and be glad that two are one.
   when love explodes and fills the sky
   praise God and share our Maker’s joy.
2. When love has flowered in trust and care,
   build both each day that love may dare
   to reach beyond home’s warmth and light,
   to serve and strive for truth and right.
3. When love is tired, as loved-ones change,
   hold still to hope though all seem strange
   till each returns and love grows wise
   through listening ears and opened eyes.
4. When love is torn and trust betrayed,
   pray strength to love till torments fade,
   till lovers keep no score of wrong
   but hear through pain love’s Easter song.
5. Praise God for love, praise God for life,
   in age or youth, in calm or strife,
   lift up your hearts, let love be fed
   though death and life in broken bread.

Lord of all loving
tune: Bunessan
Laudate vol 1, 417 Decani Music
words: Averil Norton

1. Lord of all loving,
   we stand before you,
   asking your blessing
   on us today.
   Love in our union
   this day beginning,
   life-long communion
   every new day.
2. Lord of our living,
   grant in good measure
   grace for forgiving
   each fault we find.
   Holding together
   in time of trouble
   strength for each other,
   loving and kind.
3. Lord of salvation,
   daily we offer
   fresh consecration,
   blessing and praise.
   find you in work-life,
   friends for our sharing,
   joy in our home-life
   through all our days.
4. Lord of all power,
   joy is our crowning,
   faith is our strong tower,
   hope is our peace.
   Love is the promise
   golden before us,
   grant that our gladness
   never may cease.

Love is the sunlight
tune: Bunessan — please note, same tune as above.
Journey Songs, 565 OCP Publications, Oregon
words: Borghild Jacobson (Concordia Publishing)

1. Love is the sunlight
   Shaped of your splendour
   Love is the star bright
   born of your hand,
   Blessing of heaven,
   graciously given,
   radiant with glory
   from your command.
2. Love is the spacious
   quiet of shadows,
   Love is the gracious
   shade of release,
   mist of the morning,
   midday adorning,
   cool with the twilight,
   breath of your peace.
3. May we in gladness
   grow in your sunshine;
   may we in sadness
   rest in your shade.
   Giving and gaining,
   ever remaining,
   one in the marriage
   your love has made.

God, who created hearts to love
tune: Lasst Uns Erfreuen
Journey Songs, 571. OCP Publications, Oregon.
words: M. D. Ridge

1. God, who created hearts to love,
   showering all blessings from above,
   alleluia, alleluia.
   Give these who come to you with praise,
   peace, love and laughter all their days.
   alleluia (x5)
2. Jesus at Cana gave a sign,
   turning the water into wine:
   alleluia, alleluia.
   Sign that continues as he said –
   Love, living, risen from the dead.
   alleluia (x5)
3. Spirit of God, be at their side:
   wisdom and comfort,
   guardian, guide:
   alleluia, alleluia.
   Make of the hearts a resting place
   In every trial, gentle grace.
   alleluia…
4. Sing, friends and family gathered here,
   voices in witness ringing clear;
   alleluia, alleluia.
   Here is the mystery begun:
   woman and name becoming one.
   alleluia…
5. God, let our joyful singing be
   Sign of our shared community.
   alleluia, alleluia.
   Baptized in water, we are fed
   sharing the living wine and bread.
   alleluia…

May the Grace of Christ our Saviour
tune: Halton Holgate
The Hymnal 1982, 351 Church Hymnal Corporation, NY
words: John Newton (alt.)

1. May the grace of Christ our Saviour,
   and the Father’s boundless love,
   with the Holy Spirit’s favour,
   rest upon them from above.
2. Thus may they abide in union
   with each other and the Lord,
   and posses, in sweet communion,
   joys which earth cannot afford.

As two we love are wed this day
tune: Sussex Carol
Common Ground, 11 St Andrew Press.
words: John Bell & Graham Maule

1. As two we love are wed this day
   and we stand witness to their vow,
   we ask the Holy Trinity
   to sanctify their pledges now.
   Praise, praise the maker, spirit Son,
   blessing this marriage now begun.
2. Parents and family they leave
   their new family to make;
   an, sharing what their pasts have taught,
   they shape it for the future’s sake.
   Praise, praise…
3. This is as God meant it to be
   that man and woman should be one
   and live in love and love through life,
   as Christ on earth has taught and done.
   Praise, praise…
4. Then bless the bridegroom, bless the bride,
   the dreams they dream the hopes they share,
   and thank the Lord whose love inspires
   the joy their lips and ours declare.
   Praise, praise…