If you are looking for short prayers for wedding anniversaries, this page offers a prayer you can pray on the day itself, in the early morning, over a shared meal, or in a quiet moment before the celebration begins. The prayer below can be read aloud exactly as written, or you can use it as a starting point and speak in your own words. Both approaches honor the marriage God has joined together.
Short Prayers for Wedding Anniversaries
Lord, thank you for the years you have given us together. We remember the day we first promised to love and to keep faith, and we ask you to keep that promise alive in us. Some years have been easy and some have been hard, yet you have been faithful through every season. Thank you for the ways you have held us when we were weary and forgiven us when we failed each other.
Father, we ask for patience with one another today and every day that follows. Where pride has built walls between us, soften our hearts and help us speak first with kindness. Where we have grown distracted by work, worry or the small irritations of ordinary life, turn our eyes back toward each other and toward you. Make our home a place of rest, laughter and honest talk.
Thank you for the gift of each other. Bless the years ahead with good work, good health, and a faithfulness that grows deeper as we age. Keep us close to you, so that our love for each other is rooted in your love for us. Amen.
A Shorter Version to Pray in a Moment
Lord, thank you for our marriage and for the years we have shared. Help us love each other well today, with patience, gentleness and forgiveness. Guard our hearts from pride and from drifting apart. Keep us faithful to you and to each other, one day at a time. Amen.
Scriptures to Pray Alongside
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.
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Pray this passage as a thanks for the partnership you have built over the years. Ask God to help you be the kind of companion who lifts the other up when they fall.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, 5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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Read this slowly, pausing at each quality of love. Ask God to show you where you need to grow in patience or kindness toward your spouse this year.
Colossians 3:14
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
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Pray that love would bind your marriage together in unity. Ask the Lord to keep that love steady through every change in your life together.
Ruth 1:16-17
16 Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. 17 Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”
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Ruth’s loyalty is a model for committed love. Pray for the same faithful devotion, trusting God to strengthen it when it feels tired.
Psalm 127:1
Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
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Pray that your home would be built on the Lord’s foundation rather than on your own efforts. Ask him to be the center of your household for the years ahead.
How to Pray This Prayer
Many couples find it meaningful to pray this prayer together in the morning of their anniversary, before the day’s busyness begins. Sit side by side at the kitchen table or hold hands on the couch, and take turns reading a sentence each. Let a moment of silence follow each paragraph so that both of you can listen for what God may be saying to your hearts.
If you are praying alone, or if your spouse is not able to pray with you, you can still lift this prayer up for your marriage. Write it on a card and keep it in your wallet or on the bathroom mirror. A close friend or family member could also pray it for you, which can bring encouragement when you need a reminder that others are holding your marriage in prayer.
A Blessing to Close
May the Lord bless this marriage and keep it strong through every season that lies ahead. May he fill your home with peace, your hearts with patience, and your days with the joy of being loved and known by the one you chose. May each year draw you closer to each other and to God.
