Wedding Readings...... Need some help!

Hey,

I was at my best friends wedding a few weeks ago and her sister did a great reading! I'll try and find out what it is, as i'd quite like it to be read at mine!!

Hi gsijane

That would be great! Really struggling to find something we both like. This planning is taking over my life but I love it. I'll be surprised if he does end up marrying me after all the time I spend on this computer!!!

We didn't want anything with twas and thou either lol far too posh for us! so we have decided to go with this:

The One

When the one whose hand you're holding
Is the 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.

Love the reading choice May2be! I don't even know where to start searching for readings/poems.....any tips??

Thanks! We loved it the minute we read it. I started by looking here:

https://www.myweddingvows.com/

We are having a church service and probably having this as our non religious reading. I think it sums up perfectly what should happen when all the 'fluff' is over

Love is a temporary madness,
it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides.
And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together
that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.
Because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness,
it is not excitement,
it is not the promulgation of eternal passion.
That is just being "in love" which any fool can do.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away,
and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Those that truly love, have roots that grow towards each other underground,
and when all the pretty blossom have fallen from their branches,
they find that they are one tree and not two.

Thanks May2be and Trixylou I love both of these! i've been trawling the internet for hours and have not come across these before!!!

Thank you so much xx

We're having this one

True love is a sacred flame
That burns eternally,
And none can dim its special glow
Or change its destiny.
True love speaks in tender tones
And hears with gentle ear,
True love gives with open heart
And true love conquers fear.
True love makes no harsh demands
It neither rules nor binds,
And true love holds with gentle hands
The hearts that it entwines.

And then maybe a funny one by Pam Ayres but haven't decided on that as yet

Yea, i also thnk that one can steal some ideas from other friends' wedding, either we speak about wedding location, menu, dress, lighting or even music and other accesories..

http://aperfectcelebration.com/

My brownies are reading this:

If you go to a wedding, here’s what it means
No one wears trainers and no one wears jeans
Your best new clothes are all that you wear
And everyone in your whole family is there
Even some cousins that you’ve never known
And the grown-ups all say “Oh, how much you have grown!”
So everyone’s sitting in one big room
(except Carlene and Marc, the bridge and groom)

Then all of a sudden things quieten down
And music starts playing and people turn round
And really slowly, Carlene walks in
And she’s prettier now than she’s ever been.

She’s smiling and she’s really great looking today
(when normally she looks just kind of okay)
She walks in and stands with her dad for a while
As Marc her boyfriend, awaits in the aisle
His hair is all combed and he’s wearing a tie
And then Carlene’s mum starts to sniffle and cry.
The Registrar says that we’re ready to start
So she talks and she talks about serious things
Then their friend Chris steps up holding two rings
He gives one to the groom and the other to the bride
Then after a few moments he steps to the side

And another big sniffle comes from Carlene’s mother
And Carlene and Marc put on the wedding rings
And they talk and they promise each other some things
They promise that they’ll love each other a lot
And help one another no matter what
And be with each other the rest of their life
Then the Registrar says “Now you are husband and wife”.
And you go to a party with very much food
Where you dance with some grown-ups and drink some wine
And then do a conga-dance in one long line
‘till Carlene and Marc drive off in a car
and everyone’s thinking how happy they are
So we all yell goodbye and throw handfuls of rice
Then the whole thing is over. Weddings are nice

May2be love that one it's beautiful!

We're having these two - I think

“To Love is Not to Possess” Poem by James Kavanaugh

To love is not to possess,
To own or imprison,
Nor to lose one's self in another.
Love is to join and separate,
To walk alone and together,
To find a laughing freedom
That lonely isolation does not permit.
It is finally to be able
To be who we really are
No longer clinging in childish dependency
Nor docilely living separate lives in silence,
It is to be perfectly one's self
And perfectly joined in permanent commitment
To another--and to one's inner self.
Love only endures when it moves like waves,
Receding and returning gently or passionately,
Or moving lovingly like the tide
In the moon's own predictable harmony,
Because finally, despite a child's scars
Or an adult's deepest wounds,
They are openly free to be
Who they really are--and always secretly were,
In the very core of their being
Where true and lasting love can alone abide.

“Union” Poem by Robert Fulghum

You have known each other from the first glance of acquaintance to this point of commitment. At some point, you decided to marry. From that moment of yes to this moment of yes, indeed, you have been making promises and agreements in an informal way. All those conversations that were held riding in a car or over a meal or during long walks – all those sentences that began with "When we're married" and continued with "I will and you will and we will" – those late night talks that included "someday and somehow and maybe"- and all those promises that are unspoken matters of the heart. All these common things, and more, are the real process of a wedding.

The symbolic vows that you are about to make are a way of saying to one another, "You know all those things we've promised and hoped and dreamed- well, I meant it all, every word." Look at one another and remember this moment in time.

Before this moment you have been many things to one another- acquaintance, friend, companion, lover, and even teacher, for you have learned much from one another in these last few years. Now you shall say a few words that take you across a threshold of life, and things will never quite be the same between you.

For after these vows, you shall say to the world, this is my husband, this is my wife.

We're having this as one of them, along with A Lovely Love Story by Edward Monkton

'Blessing for a Marriage'

May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring,

and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.

May you always need one another - not so much to fill your emptiness as to help you to know your fullness.

A mountain needs a valley to be complete; the valley does not make the mountain less, but more; and the valley is more a valley because it has a mountain towering over it.

So let it be with you and you.

May you need one another, but not out of weakness.
May you want one another, but not out of lack.
May you entice one another, but not compel one another.
May you embrace one another, but not out encircle one another.

May you succeed in all important ways with one another, and not fail in the little graces.
May you look for things to praise, often say, "I love you!" and take no notice of small faults.

If you have quarrels that push you apart, may both of you hope to have good sense enough to take the first step back.

May you enter into the mystery which is the awareness of one another's presence - no more physical than spiritual, warm and near when you are side by side, and warm and near when you are in separate rooms or even distant cities.

May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy. May you have love, and may you find it loving one another!

James Dillet Freeman

This is from Captain Corellis Mandolin and is the reading i am having....

We're going for this one too. Someone posted this on another thread and when I read it out to OH, he said straight away that was the one he wanted.