Wedding Readings

There are so many lovely poems, verses. We had a friend read ee cummings "you are tired" and also an original poem she wrote for us which was beyond perfect!

Maybe you have a favorite book passage, song lyrics or poem that is meaningful to you.

Celia on here has many lovely suggestions

Following!

One of our readings was "Union" by Robert Fulghum, I just love it!

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There are about 700 readings here contributed by eight officiants. A vast majority of them are non religious.

Here are a few of my faves;

Our union is like this:

You feel cold so I reach for a blanket to cover?our shivering feet.

A hunger comes into your body?so I run to my garden and start digging potatoes.

You asked for a few words of comfort and guidance and?I quickly kneel by your side offering you?a whole book as a?gift.

You ache with loneliness one night so much?you weep, and I say

here is a rope, tie it around me,?I will be your?companion?for life.

Our Union, by Hafiz

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"Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.” Still life with Woodpecker Tom Robins.

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"Life isn't measured by the number of breaths we take,?but by the number of moments that take our breath away.

Whether married, partnered or single you can live what you love. You just have to get over the jitters and let the dreams show you the way. Tie your kite to reality… Check your gut when ever it says, “hey, wait”… Take action when the time is right… Remember and treasure what life shows you… But don’t ever stand in the way of what you really love.

As far as we can tell, dreams are nothing more than love trying to take wing and soar. Imagine for just a moment thrilling distracting wonderful odd unusual sensation of new love. You immediately begin dreaming of life together of where you will go of what life will mean for the two of you. Live in that moment every day. Fall in love with new ideas new opportunities and new places all the time trust it, live it, don’t say no to love or crush a dream that wants to live. It isn’t that hard to give yourself over to it. You just have to say yes to life and love. Love will never lead you astray.

Will you live an unusual life together? Will you live the life you love? We all hope so. Anyone with a heart filled by dreams is already halfway there. So breathe deep. Jump in. Swim, or just float on the lands of life of laughter and love.” Sorta from Bob and Melinda Blanchard authors and entrepreneurs.

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Never, ever, try to impress somebody. Be exactly the person you would be if you were alone or with somebody it was safe to burp around. Be that person. Be the person you are right now alone, reading this book. And then meet people. Then hold out until you meet somebody who is utterly impressed. Because then? You will not have impressed them. They will have been impressed by you.

The difference may seem just a matter of semantics. But it’s not. The difference is finding a person who’s right for you. Not one you think is correct. The other ways won’t work. Even if they work for a while…they will fail. You will always slide back into being who you actually are. And the person you are with will want a refund.

But. If you meet somebody and they love you when you are your true, awful, not-ready-yet, boring, not cool enough, not handsome enough, not pretty enough, too fat, too poor self? And if you love them back so much it makes you calm? And they have flaws and you do not mind a single one of them? If you can say yes, you have found…..IT. From author Augusten Burroughs

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“I will love you forever; whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again… I’ll be looking for you, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one’ll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you… We’ll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams… And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won’t just be able to take one, they’ll have to take two, one of you and one of me.” Phillip Pullman

I am letting my friend pick out what he reads but I suggested I carry your heart by E E Cummings.

We're doing Captain Corelli's Mandolin too! It was the only non-religious reading that got me teared up and that I could imagine being read at my own wedding. It has a lovely metaphor about loving being like trees.

http://www.lovemydress.net/blog/2013/10/wedding-readings-love-is-a-temporary-madness-from-captain-corellis-mandolin.html

We are having 1 religious and 1 non religious reading at our wedding. The non religious reading is "Touched by an Angel" by Maya Angelou

Thanks!

Check out these readings from OffbeatBride.com for some inspiration. Best wishes, TheBride!

http://offbeatbride.com/your-favorite-readings/

Personally I love "Mouthful of Forevers" by Clementine von Radics.

The last verse:

"I know sometimes

it’s still hard to let me see you

in all your cracked perfection,

but please know:

whether it’s the days you burn

more brilliant than the sun

or the nights you collapse into my lap

your body broken into a thousand questions,

you are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.

I will love you when you are a still day.

I will love you when you are a hurricane."

The Hands ceremony is a beautiful piece. Heard it at a wedding and I cried my eyes out.

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We did "how falling in love is like owning a dog"..light hearted and fun, we love our too pups and everyone knows how obsessed with them we are..got a lot of laughs at the ceremony.

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