Church wedding readings- help!

Corinthians 13:4-8

New International Version (NIV)

I think every single church wedding I've ever been to has had that reading. It's lovley but I fancy something different x

Ohh, believe me I said that to my priest lastt week.

His reply was that it may be a cliched reading to some, makes it no less apt though...

I'm going with one reading and one gospel, hymn wise Jerusalem would be nice, but I'm worried that might be a bit cliched too?

Umm, what aabout John 15: 9-12?

How about Colossians 3 v 12-17

As God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the lord has forgiven you, so you must forgive. Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

It's one that isn't quite so often.

Aww just found the one from John and it's lovely, best I've seen so far That's definitely an option. I need to come up with a shortlist to show h2b

If I wasn't religious and having a full Catholic service I'd use the following. Short and sweet...

ISir Walter Scott (****)

Love rules the court,
The camp, the grove,
And man below, and the saints above,
For love is heaven
And heaven is love

We're having this...

Ephesians 5:21-33

Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Saviour. Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, in order to make her holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word, so as to present the church to himself in splendour, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind—yes, so that she may be holy and without blemish.

In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hates his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, because we are members of his body.

‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ This is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ and the church. Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.

For some reason that one always annoys me. I don't believe in him being the head of me. We have always been, and always will be an equal partnership. I love the second bit for husbands but I just feel the first bit is not for us.

Non religious, we're having a church of scotland but don't need to have any religious readings. SIL doing this one for us, its called on your wedding day:

That's really beautiful

Have you tried www.yourchurchwedding.org. They have a list of the most used readings. We have not decided for definite yet but will be going for one of these.

I know what you mean, but I'm quite traditional and although we are equal and respect each other, I still view the man as the head of the household. It still tells him to love me and treat me as he would like to be treated ?

We had Song of Solomon:

Song of Solomon 2.10-13; 8.6,7 My beloved speaks and says to me: „Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; For now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our land. The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom; They give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.‟ Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, Passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If one offered for love all the wealth of one‟s house, it would be utterly scorned.