The
Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony is a large-scale
wedding or
marriage rededication ceremony sponsored by the
Unification Church. It is given to married or engaged couples. Through it, members of the Unification Church believe that the couple is removed from the lineage of
sinful humanity and engrafted into God’s sinless lineage. As a result the couple’s marital relationship—and any children born after the Blessing—exist free from the consequences of
original sin. (Children born into Blessed Central Families are known as Blessed Children or second generation, third generation, etc.)