In a book that is both practical and fascinating, Susan Hedahl offers pastors a complete resource for preparing meaningful wedding sermons.

Included are chapters on wedding proclamation, its history and origins, how to choose texts and topics, the theology of marriage, and a guide to wedding sermon structure and delivery. The book concludes with five sample wedding sermons from well-known Protestant and Roman Catholic homileticians.

Appendices provide guidelines for preaching wedding sermons, including a list of denomi-nationally approved wedding texts for Episcopal, Methodist, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, and Presbyterian traditions.