A year of love and affection with everything from the walk down the aisle to this day of anniversary is worth all the celebration you can get. And when you look back to it all with a sense of gratitude to God, you know exactly how the party should start – with appreciation/thanksgiving prayers, of course.
And even if you are not the celebrant here, the 1st year of marriage is worth all the gratitude you can give to God for as long as you know His part in the one year success of the union you are felicitating. Remember the biblical charge to give thanks in everything, including this milestone.
It’s your first wedding anniversary or that of someone you care so much for? Kindly use the table of contents below to get to the desired prayer for them – every session contains thanksgiving prayer and such prayer for the future. Do enjoy.
1st Wedding Anniversary Prayers for Your Spouse
Everlasting father, unto whom all thanksgiving is due, we bless you for a yearlong of your boundless mercies and grace for this marriage. And our prayer from this 1st wedding anniversary is that we will never fail to see you as the source of our success, Amen.
Thanksgiving Prayer for Couple’s First Anniversary
Dear father thank you for the blessing of celebrating our One year wedding anniversary together in so much love, joy and peace. It has been an amazingly surprising year. We didn’t know we could pull through like this, all we can say is thank you. Thank you for the wedding; the joy of having all our families together for the first time and make the season full of love from all the sides. Thank you lord for provisions to cater for every need during the wedding and even after; you gave us more than we needed. Thank you for the blessing of establishing our home in your everlasting hands. We are so grateful as a couple.
Thank you for being our formidable company and uniting us in your love in our new home. Thank you for seeing us through every disagreement, helping us to forgive each other. Thank you for providing for our needs; we have not had any cause to be in lack in this family. Lord, we are grateful. Thank you for the battles you fought on our behalf, thank you for protecting us from the onslaught of the enemies, especially those ones we are unaware of. Lord thank you for blessing us with the company of true friends, lovely neighbours, wonderful colleagues and amazing families members. We are so grateful lord.
1st Anniversary Thanksgiving Prayer for My Husband
Lord, I want to bless you for filling my heart with so much love for my husband than I could ever imagine. I really cannot believe that it’s a year already; it’s so true what they say that time is unreal in the face of love. It was only like yesterday when decided to walk down the aisle with this handsome man of my dreams. My heart is bursting with thanksgiving to you my father for this last one year of adventurous love filled with the dreams of love and passion. My father, I do not desire to be awoken from this love. You knew the perfect man for me and you honoured us with this bundle of sweetness; my darling husband. I will be eternally grateful.
1st Anniversary Thanksgiving Prayer for My Wife
Dear Father, thank you for this beautiful damsel of undaunted virtues, my own woman. She is truly an impeccable package of beauty and love, matchless in virtue; it is an honour to have her as my wife. It has been an amazing year of joy and love to have her in my arms every night and to wake up to the thought and vision of her angelic face every morning. I am indeed grateful. Thank you Lord for the joy of finding a woman that loves me purely without reservations. Thank you for giving me the courage to take up the commitment of love.
1st Anniversary Prayer for our Future as a Couple
Many couples say the first year of their marriage is the best, but dear Lord make ours the least; we pray that the wine of our love will keep getting better as wine derives more sweetness from age. Father, make our love for each other stronger than all the turmoil of life our marriage will encounter. May the troublous waters of life not quench our love but renew and revive it each passing year. Fill our home with peace, joy, health, laughter; may we never find any reason to stay away from each other.
Dear Lord, help us to become more selfless especially with our finances. Help us to balance our spending habits to cater for each other. Lord, grant us the grace not to allow money issues to come between us, help us to always find a common ground. Give us strength to understand and accommodate each other. Bless us beyond our monthly income that we may have more than enough to spend on the good things of this life. We pray dear Lord, you will help us to grow in respect and honour of each other, many women grow to disrespect their husbands, please help me not to fall into that fault. And many men tend to push their wives aside; help me as the husband to always make my wife the centre of my life.
Father, as a couple bless us with long life in health, joy, peace, wealth and success. May our marriage be a joy to our parents, siblings, friends and children. May we grey together in much love dear Lord. We thank you because your mercies on our marriage will keep growing higher and that you will bless us with all the good things of life in Jesus name. As we have celebrated a wedding anniversary in love today; we will celebrate many more in deep love, overflowing passion, abundant joy, divine health and resounding success in Jesus name we have prayed, Amen!
A Wife’s Prayer for the Future from 1st Anniversary
Dear father, help me to grow more fond of my darling husband’s company. Strengthen me to stand with him through difficulties in life. Give me wisdom and humility to submit myself to him in all things. I desire to never to take my spouse for granted but to appreciate the other deeply. It is said that wise woman builds her home; make me wise dear father that I will grow to raise this man up with all I have. Help him Lord to love and cherish me the way he will cherish his own body, grant him wisdom to support me through all. Help my love for him to grow stronger and wider as we grow older. Lord bless my husband’s job, increase him financially that no one will be able to look down on him, make him successful at anything his hands finds to do.
Father, give us wisdom to deal in love, respect yet, firmness with our in-laws. Help us not to allow them come between us. I am very close to my parents, help me not to allow them rule my marriage. My mum can be very controlling, help me to keep my husband’s honour intact enable me to set boundaries in love that will allow us maintain respect and privacy. In all these, help us not to be secretive but bring in the right person to help when the situation requires it. We are just beginning our life with each other; bless my family with the right company. Separate my family from anyone whose influence will bring a dark cloud over my marriage.
A Husband’s Prayer for the Future from 1st Anniversary
One thing that separates love is growing apart, Lord help me never to stop understanding my spouse of inestimable value. In times of anger and offense Lord grant me patience as a man to take the fall and push the devil away from our home. Help me not to be bitter against my wife and not to stay in anger, pain and unforgiveness against her. Keep pouring your healing love in my heart, help me to bear her excesses. True treasures are found in hidden places, make me a true covering to this priceless jewel, my wife.
Father, women tend to gain weight after marriage, no matter how my wife grows to be help me to keep burning in love for her as it is from the very first sight. It will also be nice father, if you teach me how to make her always look perfect for the pleasure of my eyes. Grant her the grace to always be the object of my love at all times and seasons.
First Wedding Anniversary Prayer for My Daughter
Eternal God, I bless your name! Today marks my daughter’s first wedding anniversary. You are the God that never fails, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, when you say it, you’ll do it. Lord, I thank you for not allowing my enemies to laugh at me. Many said, my daughter will not find a man to marry, you gave her a handsome, rich, loving, gentleman; the cynosure of every lady. My friends could not even hide their jealousy on my daughter’s wedding day! O my father I bless your name. and today, I stand before you lord to fulfill my vows of thanksgiving. Thank you for blessing them with love for each other, patience to bear each other understanding to live in peace, joy and harmony. I am so elated father and I have come to bless you with my heart bursting with praise. I will honour you all the days of my life.
Father, you are the tireless holder of the universe, my beloved daughter and her darling husband still have a long way to go in their lives; they have only started. You are a mother to the motherless, a father to the fatherless, be with these couple as their father and mother. Let their home be a haven of joy, love peace. Lord, bless my daughter’s womb with babies. Let the sound of children fill their home. Bless my beloved son-in-law; strengthen him to be a strong man on all sides. Build him to be a true covering for his family. Enlarge his coast, weaken his enemies before his face, make him a voice to be reckoned with in the society. Let him stand tall and triumphant over all competitions. May we their parents see plenty days of their success in Jesus mighty name, amen.
First Wedding Anniversary Prayer for My Son
A wise son makes his parents glad; heavenly father, thank you dear father for giving me such a precious son, who has brought honour to our family. Lord, I have come to thank you because not only did you grant him their grace to make me proud in the society, just one year ago when he had an exquisitely glorious wedding but you’ve also seen him and his pretty wife through their first year in marriage, for this, I bless, exalt and extol your invaluable name, for who is like our God in all the earth; you are faithful and true oh Lord. Thank you for raising my son’s head above his mates, you’ve being with this new couple through the last one year, you have blessed them with your presence in their home. You have provided for their needs and wants, you have fought their battles and made them victorious on all sides. You have kept them from evil both seen and unseen, and have used your mighty righteous hand to strengthen them against temptations and trials. Thank you Lord for health in their spirits, souls and bodies, thank you Lord for fruitfulness in their lives spiritually and in all natural endeavours of life.
Dear God, to you will I come, for you are my Lord and I have no other. You are the only one who keeps and preserves. I lift up my darling son and his adorable wife to your hands, bless the couple dear Lord, and keep them from evil both in the day and in the night, cause your face to shine upon them every waking day, order their steps in your word, may they never walk out of the boundaries of your mercies. Father be gracious to them, let them find favour and good understanding as husband and wife, let no one whether human or otherwise come between them. Bind their hearts together in the unending circles of love. As they grow older together in life, let them find more reason every day to stand together against challenges in business, in their finances, in building their family, in their spiritual life and in all they lay their hands on and in all life brings across their way. Bless my son with grace to live an honourable man in his home, help him dear father to lead his family to life and peace. Help him to be a formidable covering for his family against the enemy. I pray that his precious wife will grow in wisdom and grace to submit to her husband and raise godly children that will bring praise and honour to the family. May they ever be swallowed up by goodness, mercy, fruitfulness, prosperity, health, wealth, success, peace and joy in Jesus name, amen.
First Wedding Anniversary Prayer for My Sister
Dear Father, giver of life and peace, thank you for giving me such an amazing sister and blessing her with a beautiful marriage and taking them through their first wedding anniversary. I can vividly remember the day my sister met her husband she was filled with feelings of pure joy mixed with fear that it is all a dream and it will soon pass away. But you’ve not only made her dream come through, you have also seen her through the first year. Thank you for the couple as we celebrate with them today. Thank Lord for being with them this last year. Thank you for giving them the patience to learn each other and bond more in love and understanding through the year. I bless you for giving them the joy of seeing today and a promise of a whole life time together. You been always good to my sister, I am grateful for showing her your faithfulness.
Lord I pray for this lovely couple as they forge on in life, that you will hid them under your everlasting love and omniscient mercies. Let her family be planted in the hollow of you palms. Challenges are part of life; see my sister through dear father. Bless her marriage with all the good things of this life. Let her wake up daily to the reality of your love. Unite the couple in you eternal seal of love. Grant her grace, wisdom and humility to build her home strong to weather any storm life brings across her way. Divorce is the order of the day now; Lord let this never be my sister’s portion. As far as the sun shines refreshingly every morning let the love between my dear sister and her darling husband be renewed in the name of Jesus. Lighten their paths and be their guide. Bless her husband’s job and finances, may their oil cruse never go dry. Satisfy them Lord with long life filled with peace and joy.
First Wedding Anniversary Prayer for My Brother
With a heart full of thanks and praise, I come before you presence oh King of heaven to bless you for my brother’s first wedding anniversary. Thank you for giving home such a lovely woman to be his wife. I was just a year ago we gathered to witness their joining. Lord thank you for seeing them through. Through this last one year, we have not had any cause to sorrow over my brother and his darling wife, I gratefully bring praise to your name. thank you for all you done for them this year, thank you for the joy you have filled their hearts with. Thank you for health, provision and protection. Thank you for blessing them with prosperity on all sides. Thank you Lord for fulfilling your promises of faithfulness in their new family. I am rejoicing with this brilliant couple today, accept my thanks dear Lord.
I pray for them that as I am joining them to celebrate one wedding anniversary today, it will only be the beginning of many decades to come in love, joy and peace in the name of Jesus. I declare that you will find favour every waking day. I pray that you will meet their needs per time. May they find help in time of trouble, Lord I pray for this dear couple as they journey in life, their feet will be secured in you eternal love. O shepherd of Israel keep watch over my brother and his wife. Make them victorious on all sides, fill their heart with joy daily, do not leave them comfortless. Bless them dear father with your presence every passing moment. May find reasons to keep loving each other more and never to give up on building their marriage. Bless them financially and fill their mouths with praises. Strengthen them beyond the wiles of them enemy and make them a hope for everyone around them. Thank you father because their marriage will soar on wings like eagles in the name of Jesus.
First Wedding Anniversary Prayer for My Friend
Dear God I thank you for giving my friend the experience of true love. A wise man once said that every Love story is special and unique; but yours my friend is one of my favourites. It is completion of the first year of keeping the vows your joyfully took on that beautiful day where your beloved spouse and you radiated with the glorious beauty of God. Father thank you for your mercies that brighten every waking day in this last one year of my friend’s married life. Thank you for your faithfulness that never left the side of this wonderful couple every passing night, for these o Lord we are grateful. Dear Lord you daily give the birds of the air all they need, thank you for abundantly supplying unto this couple all they need for a good life together. We appreciate you for blessing them with a marriage that is not void of joy, laughter, peace, sweetness and liveliness.
Oh father, I ask that as you have begun this marriage with this couple, see them through many years of celebrating the day they found love in each other. May they never come to regret the day they made their love official. Be with them in tough times, let their love stand tall and strong in every unfavourable moments. Bless them with their heart desires, light up their life with your presence. Make their marriage a beautiful dream wrapped in sheets of love and joy which no one will desire to be woke up from. As they age in life, may they grow closer in the unity of love, may their hearts be filled with smiles of joy. Make their marriage sweeter than anything they’ve ever hoped for. Let them be an inspiration for all around them. Bless this couple beyond lack, and any their health never fail. I pray that as they journey in life they will enjoy life but the issues of life will not swallow them up. May they find fulfillment and satisfaction in anything they lay their hands on.
First Wedding Anniversary Prayer for My Nephew
Lord, I thank you because today marks my dearest nephew’s wedding anniversary. Thank you for making today a day of joy for us in this family. Thank you for helping my nephew find an exquisite girl to join his lifetime adventure of love. Thank you for bring this two love birds together, and binding them with the eternal strings of love. Thank you for helping them complete one year of loving each other. Thank you for helping this couple to experience this first one year in marriage in love and peace. Thank you for being their light in dark times. Thank you for making their love a proof that true love prevails. Thank you for helping them find peace in each other’s arms.
Help them to love each other selflessly. Help them to learn teamwork in marriage through togetherness. Teach them patience by blessing them with the spirit tolerance to bear each other’s shortcomings. Teach them support and solidarity during times of crises. May their love become more beautiful and strong with age. Bless the couple with the grace to weather all the storms that life will bring their way and still keep smiling at the end. Let life be sweeter and much happier for the couple in each other’s company. I pray that your love for each other will never turn sour, but that as the sun never fails, your love will stand sure as the dawn. You will always find help when you need it. The lines will fall unto you in pleasant places in the name of Jesus. May you wedding anniversaries celebration always exceed the previous years. May your love be a light set on a hill.
First Wedding Anniversary Prayer for My Niece
It is known that falling in love is easy but staying in love is a different ball game entirely. Lord Jesus thank you for helping my niece to stay in love for the first one year of her marriage with the promise of many years to come in the abundant love and peace. Thank you for helping them to cross the first milestone on the journey of their love. Thank you for provision during the wedding ceremony, thank you for granting safety to everyone who took a trip to honour the couple on that day. Thank you that it is a day to joyfully remember in your presence. Lord, thank you for being there with the couple through this first year, we have not had any cause to settle quarrels between them. They have not had any reason to annul their marriage, we bless your name. We rejoice with them today that we have not sorrowed on either or both of them, Lord, thank you for keeping watch over them.
Dear Lord as they commence the second year of their love journey and a whole life time, I ask that you will be their shield from the terror that flies by night and the arrows that flies by day. Fill their days with praises, let your cloud of glory encompass them around. Make them courageous and thoughtful, help them to grow to love, understand, tolerate and cherish each other as they age together. Separate them from people of contrary intentions, whose influence will rid their marriage of honour and respect for each other. Keep them under you protective wings and out their enemies to flight before them. Silver and gold is yours dear father bless my niece and her husband with abundant wealth. May they know your goodness and your mercies through their lives. Bind them together in the threefold cord of your love that never breaks. I pray that this beloved couple will never fall out of love for each other in Jesus name, Amen.
First Wedding Anniversary Prayer for My Cousin
Dear God, thank you blessing beloved cousin with an incredible spouse. We are forever indebted to your eternal love Lord. We appreciate you for bringing the couple to a wonderful celebration of their first anniversary in love. Their glorious wedding ceremony is still fresh in my memory; thank you for making the day a magnificent. Thank you for providing for the couple, blessing them to have such an exquisite wedding. Many believe that societal weddings do not last because they are void of love. Thank you for helping my dear cousin and spouse to experience the conclusion of their first anniversary in marriage. We are grateful for giving them a delightful adventure of love.
In faith Lord, we are also blessing you for the intriguing life they have ahead of them. As the plunge into a whole live of love together, bless this union in your mercy. Lord, life is full of challenges, bless the couple with the wisdom to learn and understand each other. Grant them patience to break into more depths of love for each other. Bless the husband with abundant love for his wife, may nothing ever stop his heart from beating only for the wife of his youth. Grant him the strength to be a true man that provides abundantly for his home, ability to protect his home from physical and psychological assault. Lord, bless the husband with all he needs to represent you in his family. I pray that the wife will find it easy to submit herself to her husband, enable her to build her home against gossip, envy and bitterness. Help her to be a succor to her husband, let her be his true confidant in all things. Help this couple’s marriage to bring praise to you oh Lord. Bless them dear father with good health, let sicknesses or diseases not cut their joy short. May they bring joy to their family, friends and society at large. Thank you dear Lord for lifting them up in Jesus name, amen.
First Wedding Anniversary Prayer for My Uncle
Glorious God, thank you for bringing my uncle and his wife together. Thank you for blessing them with such an astounding marriage. Lord thank you for giving me such a wonderful uncle, he has been so good to me. I am so grateful for making me experience his first wedding anniversary. Thank you for giving him such a beautiful woman to love and cherish him. Thank you for the wedding ceremony, it was breathtaking. Thank you for blessing them with a phenomenal marriage, filling their hearts with so much love for each other. Thank you Lord for making their dreams come through.
I pray today that you will fill his marriage with boundless happiness. My uncle needs love and care; bless his wife with the grace to care for him selflessly. I pray that you will make my uncle more crazy for his terrific wife. May his heart never go dry of her love, bless him with the enablement to love her beyond all her faults and imperfections. Help my uncle’s wife to grow large in her heart daily towards her husband. Help her to raise him up in his trying things, help her to cover up his inadequacies and never use them against him make the two of them perfect in their union. Bless their marriage with the good things from your hands. Take away characters and behaviours that could be injurious to their marriage. Let the force of love wheel their marriage into marital bliss. I pray you will keep them from evil dear Lord. May celebration of their love never end in the name of Jesus, amen.
First Wedding Anniversary Prayer for My Aunt
It is a new dawn of a brand new day, I thank you for bring my darling aunt to the celebration of her first anniversary in marriage. I acknowledge your mercy and grace upon my aunt and her charming husband. Thank you for giving my aunt an elegant wedding ceremony, she was so gorgeous and stunning in her wedding dress. Although, she was afraid of making a mistake but today, shows us the reality of your faithfulness. I believe Lord that you who took her through her first year in love joyfully are still on the throne and you will see her through many more decades in love, joy and happiness. Thank you for the promise of life father, thank for the surety we have in your name.
Dear lord, we have the confidence that when we call upon you, you hear us. I pray that you will bless my aunt and her husband as they journey on together in life. I pray that you will make her a virtuous woman indeed, fill her mouth with wisdom and put you ointment of kindness upon her tongue. Bless her wisdom in all of her endeavours. Disconnect her from any influence that will have negative effects on her marriage. Cloth her with a peaceful heart to make her home a safe haven for her husband to always return to. Bless her husband with strength and honour to keep his family in safety and peace. Bless his business, make it thrive above all struggles of life. Help the couple to build their marriage on love and trust that no one will be able to come between them.
1st Wedding Anniversary Prayer Points and Messages
You can use the first wedding anniversary prayer points below as some spontaneous prayers you render on behalf of the couple or you can send them as prayer quotes or messages to couple. When sending as a congratulatory text, you can “add happy 1st anniversary to you both” to end them.
1. As I bless God for your first wedding anniversary, I pray that God will cause His joy to abound in your home in Jesus name.
2. The God who has started this beautiful thing of joy with you will help you both to continue in strength and limitless commitment, in Jesus name.
3. The Lord has showered his mercy upon you and your spouse this last one year of your marriage with much love and peace, will never leave your family in Jesus name.
4. For the Lord has graciously kept you family this first year of marriage in good health. I pray that your health will never fail in the name of Jesus.
5. I thank the Lord for bringing you to a joyful celebration of you first anniversary and he will establish your new family in Jesus name.
6. As the Lord has clothed you and your spouse with honour, joy and peace, may he grace you with wisdom and truth to be the better half of each other in Jesus name.
7. He who has begun a good work in your family, will perfect all that concerns your spouse and your marriage in Jesus name.
8. The Rock of Ages will protect you and your spouse against all evil as you grow old together in Jesus name.
9. The Lord who brought you and your spouse together will keep away anyone who intends to put your marriage asunder in Jesus name.
10. As mountains surround Jerusalem, wealth, success peace and joy will surround your marriage and family in Jesus name.
11. Good Lord, I pray that you will lead this couple in the paths of understanding and patience with each other in the name of Jesus.
12. I ask that you will strengthen this couple against all the troubles that life steers across their paths in all of their endeavours in Jesus name.
13. Dear Lord, as you have met their every need this last one year of their union, you will keep blessing them beyond all lack in Jesus name.
14. Father, just as you have given this husband wisdom to live with the wife of his youth in peace through their first year together, I pray he will never get tired of bearing her lovingly.
15. This beloved couple has begun their lives with you, dear Lord their lives, marriage and children will never be void of your mercy in Jesus name.
16. Lord, you have favoured this woman amongst many, grant her abundant grace to build her home with wisdom and patience in Jesus name
17. As this couple continue in life, let the lines fall to them in pleasant places in all the do in the mighty name of Jesus.
18. Like a tree planted by the rivers of water, your marriage will be fruitful. The leaves of your marriage will never go dry in Jesus name.
19. I pray that your marriage will have dominion over every forces of backwardness and failure in Jesus name.
20. As the Lord shew himself faithful during your wedding, your marriage will be a living testimony that God never fails in the name of Jesus.
21. The Lord will be a pillar of fire by night and a cloud of glory over you and your spouse all the days of your life on this side of existence in Jesus name.
22. The comfort of love of Christ and the bowels of peace of the Holy Spirit will keep your marriage in Jesus name, amen.
