These prayers for wedding anniversaries are written for the day you mark another year of marriage, whether you are celebrating a first anniversary or a fiftieth. Pray them in the morning before the day gets busy, over a shared meal, or quietly in the evening as you look back over the years. You can read the main prayer aloud exactly as written, or use it as a starting point and speak in your own words.
Prayers for Wedding Anniversaries
Father, thank you for the years you have given us together. We come to you grateful, and we remember that the marriage we have today is something you have kept alive through good seasons and hard ones. Thank you for the moments we would never have chosen and the ones we still treasure. Help us to see the years as gifts rather than as a list of tasks or disappointments.
Lord, we ask that you would keep us faithful to each other as we go into the next year. Where we have grown tired or careless, soften our hearts and give us the willingness to start again. Teach us to speak kindly, to forgive quickly, and to ask for forgiveness without pride. Protect what we share from the pressures of work, money, illness, and the many small distractions that crowd out time together. Give us patience with each other’s weaknesses, and let us see the good you are still forming in each of us.
We also bring to you the people who have walked this road with us, and the future we cannot yet see. Hold our family, our friends, and anyone among them who is hurting this week. Make our home a place of peace and welcome. Let our love grow deeper as the years add up, and let it point back to your faithfulness. Amen.
A Shorter Version to Pray in a Moment
Lord, thank you for this marriage and for another year of walking together. Forgive us where we have failed each other, and help us to start fresh today. Keep our love steady, our words gentle, and our hearts close to yours. Bless the years ahead and make us faithful to the end. 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 as a thank you 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 stumble.
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 and let each quality become a request. Ask God to make patience, kindness, and endurance grow in you as the years go on.
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 picture of commitment chosen again and again. Pray that your promises would be kept with the same steadfast faithfulness.
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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Use this verse to admit that a marriage cannot be held together by effort alone. Ask the Lord to build your home on his strength and not only your own.
Colossians 3:14
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
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Love is described here as the thing that binds everything else together. Pray that love would be the cord that holds your marriage in harmony through every season.
How to Pray This Prayer
Many couples find that early morning or the quiet end of the day works best, when the house is calm and there is no rush to get somewhere else. Sit near each other, perhaps holding hands or with a cup of coffee or tea in your hands, so that the prayer has a physical place in the day. If you are apart, agree to pray the same words at the same time, even by phone.
This prayer can also be shared with children, close friends, or a small group who have walked alongside your marriage. Invite them to add their own thanks or requests at the end. Hearing others pray for your marriage can be a deep encouragement, especially in years when the road has been difficult.
A Blessing to Close
May the Lord who has carried this marriage through every year continue to walk beside you both. May your love grow in kindness, your forgiveness come easily, and your joy in each other be fresh as the first day. May the years ahead be full of grace, and may you find in each other a faithful companion for the journey.
