Irish Wedding Blessing
A wedding of any kind would not be complete without someone giving wedding blessings, and with the diversity of people around the world, you can find a considerable number of wedding blessings from different cultures coming around. One such favored type of wedding blessing is that of an Irish wedding blessing.
May it be the humor, or may it be the sentimentality, it could even be the beautiful language in which these blessings are spoken, but more and more you can find at least one Irish wedding blessing being spoken at a wedding. And it is guaranteed that these blessings don’t become old and repetitive. These sayings are longevous already, and they seem to become immortalized in the memorial of human history.
The reason for this is of course, that a traditional Irish wedding blessing is so graceful and so evocative, that it has become eternal. Most of the time when you will hear an Irish wedding blessing at a wedding and when you look around at this time, you will find a tear or two in the eyes of someone when such a blessing is given.
A great and common example of an Irish wedding blessing is “May you both live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.” Here is another great example, “May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, slow to make enemies and quick to make friends.” Is sounds so well, isn’t it?
And that’s only the beginning. You can find yet other great examples of a good Irish wedding blessing there, and if you look in the right places, you will find many of these sayings collected in one place, such as in an Irish wedding blessing book, which contains plenty of these sayings. Or you can even find them on the internet, just like you're doing it right now, aren’t you?
There are many Irish communities living outside their beloved mother country who usually get together, and the internet is one of the best ways to find not only these people, but also to find a few hundred different Irish wedding blessings.
The two mentioned above are very concise, and still very sweet. They are often used during the weddings, as are other blessings as well, but this has to be an all time favorite Irish wedding blessing. It goes something along the lines of, “On this special day, our wish to you, The goodness of the old, the best of the new. God bless you both who drink this mead, may it always fill your every need. – Slбinte!”