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The Order of Holy Matrimony
The Orthodox wedding is two services: the betrothal, with the exchange of rings, and the crowning, with the common cup and the dance around the table. A short service for a second marriage follows.
Read it before you attend an Orthodox wedding, or before your own.
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About this edition
From the Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church, translated and arranged by Isabel Florence Hapgood (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906). Our text was made from scans of the printed book and checked against three separate scans; if you spot a mistake, tell us in the server.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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