Ideas for honoring Mary in a May wedding?

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Hey everyone,

I want to see if anyone has any neat ideas for how I can include Mary in our marriage celebration (as our wedding will be in May - Mary’s month)? It can be anything from certain flowers to use, or a prayer to include in the program, or a song to sing, etc.

We also have strong devotions to our patron saints (St. Francis and St. Therese)… any ideas for how we can incorporate this, also?

Thanks!
 
I didn’t have a May wedding, but I did take my wedding bouquet to Mary at the end of the wedding ceremony while the singer sang Ave Maria. It is a tradition I had heard of and liked.
 
Consider having beautiful holy cards with the Blessed Mother on them with your favorite Marian prayer on the back. You can get personalized cards with your wedding date info on them, they would make nice keepsakes to put at each place setting.

catholicshopper.com/personalized_holy_cards/

~Liza
 
raes said:
Hey everyone,

I want to see if anyone has any neat ideas for how I can include Mary in our marriage celebration (as our wedding will be in May - Mary’s month)? It can be anything from certain flowers to use, or a prayer to include in the program, or a song to sing, etc.

We also have strong devotions to our patron saints (St. Francis and St. Therese)… any ideas for how we can incorporate this, also?

Thanks!
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Even though my kids are too young to be thinking about this, my 12 yr old dd said she would like ‘ave maria’ playing as she walks down the aisle…i think that would be lovely!👍
 
I didn’t get married in the month of May but I had a rosary woven into my bridal bouquet. Hubby and I also each laid a rose at the feet of the statue of Mary.
 
Back in the day,😃 , it was common for Catholic girls to have a “Blessed Virgin Mary” wedding in which the bridesmaids wore light blue. IN a Sacred Heart wedding, they wore red. Flowers would also reflect the colors. Don’t see that much any more.

Peace,
Linda
 
Actually the girl’s dresses are blue! 🙂

Thanks for the tips… keep them coming!
 
I did get married in May…after communion I took a small bouquet of roses to the Mary altar, and after that DH took a single white lily to St Joseph’s altar while the choir sang Ave Maria.

Our bridesmaid dresses were light blue, and our favors at the reception were rosaries that had been blessed by the Pope (I got them blessed at WYD in Cologne the summer before). 👍
 
For your reception, instead of doing the typical table numbers, you could name each table after a different apparition or devotion to the BVM. Such as one table could be The Miraculous Medal and the table card would have that image on it, and maybe an explanation to go with it. And so on…

😃

~Liza
 
I was married in May, and this is what we did during my wedding Mass. After the vows, my husband escorted me while I brought a bouquet of red roses to the statue of the Blessed Virgin. During this time the choir sang Ave Maria. That is something that has been a tradition at weddings in my culture (I am of Hispanic descent), but my husband’s family had never seen or heard of that tradition before. After the wedding, we had many people tell us how much they had enjoyed that part of the ceremony.

Another thing that many of our guests enjoyed was the wedding lazo we used. It’s basically like two rosaries joined together to make one large rosary with two loops. (If you do a Google search for “wedding lassos” or “wedding lazos,” you will find plenty of images.) The lazo is blessed during the wedding ceremony. After we presented the Blessed Virgin with the roses, our parents placed the lazo around mine and my husband’s necks. It symbolizes the unity of the newly married couple, and we wore it for most of the remainder of the Mass. It was removed after the liturgy of the Eucharist. (Sometimes the lazo can be wrapped around the couples’ wrists rather than placed around their necks.) Even though most of our guests had never heard of this tradition before, many of them enjoyed the symbolism of it and said that it was very touching to them.
 
A friend had in her ceremony something where she and her husband knelt down before a statue of Mary and said a prayer. Perhaps even placed a rose. I can’t remember, but I do know she had a May wedding.

Also, Ave Maria as others have mentioned, is such a beautiful song to have in your ceremony. We had it during the signing.
 
the traditional custom of the bride presenting a bouquet of red roses to Mother Mary.
 
It has been tradition for the Bride to go up to the BVM at the very end of the mass, different churches in our area do it a different way, sometimes the MOH helps the Bride to the kneeler as she presents a bouquet to the BVM, when she kneels, she is to be in prayer, when she is in prayer, she is to be praying for a family, a safe healthy family, …I am unsure about specifics, I know this was in tradition at least from the early 70’s with my folks, here in the states, some churches have the groom go up instead of the MOH as he stands by while she presents herself, places a bouquet, and prays.

I do not know if this is the option you are requesting for in forms of opinions, since it is tradition and your parish will ask you if you want that option for a mass ceremony anyway. I will give you a few other ideas, it happens to be Mother’s Day in May so it is nice to have several long stem roses for any guests who are mother’s, whereby which you can insert a BVM miraculous metal on a leaf stem, and also a St. Francis Prayer card, and the rose itself symbolizes St. Therese of Liseaux. Or a bird or animal piece/clamp/clasp at a craft store that could easily attach to a rose stem instead of the prayer card for St. Francis. Another idea is to get a Madonna/child planter centerpiece and have your florist fill it with a spring bouquet, animal piece, and/or roses and then have them drop it off to reception for set up and raffle it off to interested mothers? Obviously, if you have a mixed denominational crowd, it could be awkward for them, but who cares, it’s your day!!
 
Not a May wedding (cold cold December day!), but I laid a single red rose from my bouquet at the base of Mary’s statue in the outdoor grotto at our parish.
 
Last Sunday evening, I was taught how to make knotted cord rosaries. They are easy to make.

You could learn (online at www.rosaryarmy.com), make them in your wedding colors and give one to each guest.
 
Before coming up with too many “ideas”, check with the priest first.

Although I love the honoring of Mary at weddings, it is not a part of the marriage rite, and some priests wont’ allow it. It is usually kept to a small marian devotion, usually after the prayer after communion. The bride and groom go to the statue, place a flower or crown her head, and say a prayer during some kind of marian song:

Holy is His Name by Talbot
Immaculate mary
Hail Holy queen
Hail Mary Gentle Woman
On This day
Ave Maria
 
agapewolf said:
Before coming up with too many “ideas”, check with the priest first.

Although I love the honoring of Mary at weddings, it is not a part of the marriage rite, and some priests wont’ allow it.
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True, but it doesn’t have to be done *during *the Mass! I just placed the rose by Mary after the wedding while we were outside in the Grotto doing pictures! 🙂
 
Congrats! I started a thread here before my wedding, and got lots of really great ideas.

Our church doesn’t allow flower petals to be dropped on the floor, so we made two little box arrangements of silk flowers, one for each flower girl to carry down the aisle. They held on to them until we were ready then they walked over and presented them to my husband and I while we were still standing with the priest. Then we walked over to “Ave Maria” and placed the boxes at the statue, said a short prayer and Hail Mary, and walked back. It was good stuff. 😃
 
lifeisbeautiful said:
I didn’t have a May wedding, but I did take my wedding bouquet to Mary at the end of the wedding ceremony while the singer sang Ave Maria. It is a tradition I had heard of and liked.
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It was a tradition as far back as over 30 years ago too, the most beautiful one that I ever saw was where the bride had a small bouquet incorporated into her own and it just sort of “popped” out and she took it to the Blessed Mother while the Ave Maria was playing and being sung, she knelt for a time, (probably praying the Hail Mary and asking her to be with her throughout her Marriage), her husband helped her up after her prayer and then she took a red rose (also incorporated into her white roses bouquet and presented one to her mother and one to her mother-in-law.)
 
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