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Childrens reading.

*libby*, 20 April, 2011 at 21:49 Posted on Planning 0 8

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My 7 year old son wants to do a reading at our wedding (civil ceremony) which Id love but im finding it difficult to find something suitable for a child and not too long.

I did have one but cant find it now, it was about what a wedding day is, things like you dress up smart and don't wear jeans, all your family are there even cousins you never see and your aunties says haven't you grown! There the only random bits I can remember now! Anyone know the one i'm on about?

Has anyone come across any others that are good?

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Latest activity by cassmk2, 28 April, 2011 at 21:05

Beginner September 2011
knitting_vixen · 20 April, 2011 at 21:51
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My SIL had her 8 year old read this extract from the Velveteen Rabbit. Was lovely:

Extract from
the The Velveteen Rabbit
Margery Williams (****)

‘What is REAL?’ asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. ‘Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?’ ‘Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When someone loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, buy REALLY loves you, then you become Real.’ ‘Does it hurt? Asked the Rabbit. ‘Sometimes,’ said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. ‘When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.’ ‘Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,’ he asked, ‘or bit by bit?’ ‘ It doesn’t happen all at once,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.’ ‘I suppose you are real?’ said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse only smiled. ‘Someone made me Real,’ he said. ‘That was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can’t become unreal again. It lasts for always.’
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pandorasbox · 20 April, 2011 at 22:42
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I found that one randomly today, this should be the link:

http://www.weddingmagazine.co.uk/receptions_more.php?id=75

If not then search for humourous wedding reading on google, it was the first link.

Another shortish one that showed up mentioned Winnie the Pooh so could work from a child (depending on the tone of your wedding):

http://www.weddingmagazine.co.uk/receptions_more.php?id=62

Another one which you could take an extract from that seems really light-hearted but long:

http://www.itakeyou.co.uk/wedding-ideas/wedding-readings-poems/i-like-you.htm
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NikiST · 21 April, 2011 at 00:02
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Knitting_vixen, that reading was lovely and it made me cry a little.
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FutureMrsRon · 21 April, 2011 at 10:43
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Jules.40 I am sitting at my desk welling up, that is just so cute!!!!! I may have to steal that for my wedding
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Vanilla Pod · 21 April, 2011 at 23:22
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my 11 year old niece is reading this at our wedding I love it, makes me cry every time I read it. x
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*libby* · 28 April, 2011 at 19:13
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Oh thank you, this was it! Think it was a bit different and you change the names

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

She’s a bride 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 Richard her boyfriend, awaits in the aisle
His hair is all combed and he’s wearing a tie
And then Sally's mum starts to sniffle and cry.

And now it comes time for the ‘get-married’ part
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 his girlfriend, Janaki pulls him aside.

Then Sally and Richard kind of look at each other
And another big sniffle comes from Sally’s mother
And Sally and Richard 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”.

Then everyone’s in such a big happy mood
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 Sally and Richard 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!
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cassmk2 · 28 April, 2011 at 21:05
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This is really nice Libby. I think i may use it for my 12 year old son to read. A few adaptations will be needed but it could work perfectly.
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