A Bride Blessing

We recently welcomed a new addition  

into our family. 

And another family welcomed 
one of us into theirs.

Being spiritual people, 

I wanted to incorporate a spiritual component 

into the merging of these two families,

 a deeply personal welcome 

and a prayerful blessing.  

I invited the bride, 
 the women of her family 

and the women of the grooms family
to my home for a Bride Blessing. 

We gathered, mothers, sisters, 
cousins, aunts, grandmothers.

I asked them to bring 

a book, or tool, 

that they use in the running 

of their homes, 

to share as an example 
with the new bride to be.  

Each were asked to relay a piece 

of information 
that they were given, 

or WISH they had been given, 

that helps life as a wife 

run smoothly.

After dinner we gathered in the 
living room

to share these bits of wisdom, 

tools of efficiency, 

hard learned lessons.

We shared calendars, 

methods of record keeping, 

recipes and 
household management tips.  

Each of the women, 

her birth family, 

and her new married family,  

told her how they planned 

to pray for her, 

to speak
ONLY GOOD
 OF HER, 

to affirm her 

and support her.  

Then we washed the brides feet, 

in symbol of her new role 
of service to her husband,
and each one 
laid their hands on her, 

and spoke a 

prayerful blessing over her. 

To shower a bride with personal gifts, 

is a great tradition.  

To shower a couple with home goods, 

a great tradition.  

To bless her with the gifts of words, 

spoken in affirmation, 

welcome, blessing, 

  and the promise of 
your continued prayers,
just might be a
NEW tradition
you’ll want to try too.

The groom's mother and sisters

The bride & her mother