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In my own vows I said this Maya Angelou quote:


In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine

My grandmother wrote a poem that she read at the wedding. She provided a copy of the officiant to include in his book so he could just hand her the book to read from. My brother read the passage love is patient, love is kind from the Bible at our rehearsal dinner.

My cousin is reading an excerpt from Louis de Bernieres’ “Corelli’s Mandolin,” and our officiant (who is one of FH’s best friends) included part of the lyrics to “the power of love” as a nod to FH’s obsession with Back to the Future.

We’re getting married the Saturday before Halloween Saturday. Nightmare Before Christmas is one of our favorite movies to watch together. Our reading by a friend will be “Simply meant to be” as a poem. It’s a song from Sally and Jack in the movie.

I wrote my vows and included a poem I had written for our 1st (dating) anniversary at the end.

I love this one by Neil Gaiman "The Day The Saucers Came"

That day, the saucers landed. Hundreds of them, golden,
Silent, coming down from the sky like great snowflakes,
And the people of Earth stood and stared as they descended,
Waiting, dry-mouthed, to find what waited inside for us
And none of us knowing if we would be here tomorrow
But you didn’t notice it because
That day, the day the saucers came, by some coincidence,
Was the day that the graves gave up their dead
And the zombies pushed up through soft earth
or erupted, shambling and dull-eyed, unstoppable,
Came towards us, the living, and we screamed and ran,
But you did not notice this because

On the saucer day, which was the zombie day, it was
Ragnarok also, and the television screens showed us
A ship built of dead-men’s nails, a serpent, a wolf,
All bigger than the mind could hold, and the cameraman could
Not get far enough away, and then the Gods came out
But you did not see them coming because

On the saucer-zombie-battling-gods day the floodgates broke
And each of us was engulfed by genies and sprites
Offering us wishes and wonders and eternities
And charm and cleverness and true brave hearts and pots of gold
While giants feefofummed across the land, and killer bees,
But you had no idea of any of this because

That day, the saucer day, the zombie day,
The Ragnarok and fairies day, the day the great winds came
And snows, and the cities turned to crystal, the day
All plants died, plastics dissolved, the day the Computers turned,
the screens telling us we would obey, the day
Angels, drunk and muddled, stumbled from the bars,
And all the bells of London were sounded, the day
Animals spoke to us in Assyrian, the Yeti day,
The fluttering capes and arrival of the Time Machine day,
You didn’t notice any of this because
you were sitting in your room, not doing anything
not even reading, not really, just looking at your telephone,
wondering if I was going to call.

Cosmos by Carl Sagan..perfect for a celestial theme


All of the rocks we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star-stuff. For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Wild Awake by Hilary T Smith


People are like cities: We all have alleys and gardens and secret rooftops and places where daisies sprout between the sidewalk cracks, but most of the time all we let each other see is is a postcard glimpse of a skyline or a polished square. Love lets you find those hidden places in another person, even the ones they didn’t know were there, even the ones they wouldn’t have thought to call beautiful themselves.

From Game of Thrones


As you are the Moon of his life, he shall be your Sun and Stars. Your love shall be as ever present as those two celestial bodies...even though they are sometimes hidden from one another's sight. Your love will be the guiding force that charts the course of your tomorrows, holds your world together in difficult times, and will make life itself shine bolder and brighter than we human beings have a right to dream of.

These are so unique! Love them!