Book of Common Prayer · Matrimony (1662)

Versions of Matrimony

The base text is the 1662 Form of Solemnization of Matrimony (plain text, source). Earlier and later rites are listed below, beginning with the Sarum church-door rite (translated into English by AnglicanGuide from the Latin, with its Middle English vows modernised; the edition is linked). Public-domain texts are given in full; copyrighted modern rites, and texts not separately transcribed, have a short note and a link. Use the Compare tab on the Matrimony page to read any of them beside 1662.

• Anglo-Saxon nuptial blessings: Pontifical of Egbert and Leofric Missal (10th–11th century manuscripts) · English translation · Latin · Source: W. Greenwell (ed.), The Pontifical of Egbert, Surtees Society 27 (1853), pp. 125–126, 132–133; F. E. Warren (ed.), The Leofric Missal (1883), pp. 228–229 (Internet Archive)
• Be wifmannes beweddunge (Of Betrothing a Woman) (early 11th century) · English translation · Old English · Source: B. Thorpe, Ancient Laws and Institutes of England (1840), vol. 1, pp. 254–257 (Internet Archive)
• Sarum Manual: Ordo ad faciendum sponsalia (Latin and Middle English) (printed editions c. 1500–1554) · English translation · Latin · Source: W. G. Henderson (ed.), Manuale et Processionale ad usum insignis Ecclesiae Eboracensis, Surtees Society 63 (1875), appendix: Manuale ad usum Sarum, pp. 17*–26* (Internet Archive)
• Hereford Missal: Ordo ad facienda sponsalia (printed 1502) · English translation · Latin · Source: W. G. Henderson (ed.), York Manual, Surtees Society 63 (1875), appendix: Manual Offices from the Hereford Missal, pp. 115*–120* (Internet Archive)
• York Manual: Ordo ad facienda sponsalia (printed editions 1509–1530) · English translation · Latin · Source: W. G. Henderson (ed.), Manuale et Processionale ad usum insignis Ecclesiae Eboracensis, Surtees Society 63 (1875), pp. 24–40 (Internet Archive)
• First Prayer Book of Edward VI (1549) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1549 Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Second Prayer Book of Edward VI (1552) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1552 Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Elizabethan Prayer Book (1559) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1559 Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Scottish Prayer Book ("Laud's Liturgy") (1637) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1637 Scottish Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Episcopal Church (USA) Book of Common Prayer (1789) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1789 U.S. Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Church of England Proposed Prayer Book: Alternative Form of Solemnization of Matrimony (1928) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1928 Proposed Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Episcopal Church (USA) Book of Common Prayer (1928) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1928 U.S. Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Episcopal Church (USA) Book of Common Prayer: The Celebration and Blessing of a Marriage (1979) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1979 U.S. Book of Common Prayer, Pastoral Offices: Marriage (justus.anglican.org)
• Church of England, Alternative Service Book and Common Worship (1980)
  Text under copyright and not reproduced. The ASB (1980) and Common Worship (2000) use modern language, identical vows by default and an optional "obey". Church of England, Common Worship: Marriage (official text).
• Anglican Church in North America, Book of Common Prayer (2019)
  Text under copyright and not reproduced. A lightly modernised 1662 form, keeping the three causes. ACNA, The Book of Common Prayer (2019) (official site).