Reading help please

Try:

a walled garden, anon

soulmates, anon

a red red rose, robert burns

sonnet 43 elizabeth barrett browning

sonnets 18 and 116 shakespeare

dietrich bonhoeffer, letters and papers from prison (we are having this)

from the irrational season, madeleine l'engle

apache ceremony of love

velveteen rabbit extract, margery williams

all should be findable on google.

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This is one of our readings -

A Good Wedding Cake.
1lb butter of youth.
4lbs of love.
1lb of good looks,
1lb of sweet temper.
3lb of self forgetfulness.
1lb of pounded wit.
1lb of blindness of faults.
1lb of good humour.
1 tablespoon of sweet argument.
1 pint of rippling laughter.
1 wine glass of common sense.
1oz of modesty.
Put the love, good looks and sweet temper into a well furnished house. Beat the butter of youth to a cream, and mix well together with the blindness of faults. Stir the pounded wit and good humour into the sweet argument, then add the rippling laughter and common sense. Work the whole together until everything is well mixed, and bake gently for ever.

These are some possibilities for us at the moment... they are from the reading list on Hitched!

When the one whose hand you're holding
Is the one one who holds your heart
When the one whose eyes you gaze into
Gives your hopes and dreams their start,
When the one you think of first and last
Is the one who holds you tight,
And the things you plan together
Make the whole world seem just right,
When the one whom you believe in
puts their faith and trust in you,
You've found the one and only love
You'll share your whole life through.

These I Can Promise

I cannot promise you a life of sunshine;
I cannot promise riches, wealth, or gold;
I cannot promise you an easy pathway
That leads away from change or growing old.
But I can promise all my heart's devotion;
A smile to chase away your tears of sorrow;
A love that's ever true and ever growing;
A hand to hold in yours through each tomorrow.

i carry your heart by E.E Cummings

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

Assuming the registrar gives us the ok (apparently there may not be one trace of religious content in a civil ceremony but how strict they are depends on the individual registrar) we're going with an excerpt from Plato's Symposium about why people seek out their soulmate and a poem called A Hidden Place by Carole Faivre-Scott. Both reasonably easy to find by the magic of Google. Also if we're allowed we're going to ask the registrar to carry out a traditional Scottish Quaich ceremony where the marriage is sort of blessed as we both drink from the same cup. It's traditional but not very commonplace now but we love it. Even if the registrar won't do it we'll get the best man to do it ?

I have a load that the registrar emailed me for my wedding. If you would like me to email you them my email address is will delete address later.

Sorry for the dealy in replying - I have been relly ill since this. Many many thanks for those will have a good read of the . Caz79 if you wouldn't mid e-mailing me them my e-mail address is ***.**@*******.**.** Thank you all

YHM

Another one to add to the list - excerpt from Captain Correlli's (sp?) Mandolin, I love it.