Tips: How to Celebrate Marriage Sunday at your Parish

At Mass

• Incorporate Marriage Sunday into Sunday liturgy
• Choose hymns related to love
• Preach about marriage in the homily
• Provide an opportunity for married couples to renew their vows
• Bless all married couples during the Mass
• Acknowledge the longest-married couple
• Invite those celebrating milestone anniversaries to stand in front of the altar for a special blessing
• Prayers of the faithful - Pray for those preparing for marriage, married couples, couples experiencing difficulties, widowed, divorced, and separated
• Invite a couple to lead a family prayer during the Mass
• Invite a family for the presentation of gifts
• Give roses to couples at the end of Mass (e.g. those celebrating 50+ years)