funny/cute readings or poems

We're having the following read by my 7 year old

My advice @UnknownMum and Dad get married todayI’d like to help them on their waySo here’s some special advice from meTo help them with our familyKeep our house filled with laughterLet’s have fun forever afterKeep the drawer filled up with sweetsAnd give us children lots of treatsMake sure you spend time togetherTo keep your happiness foreverMake sure you spend lots on usAnd then us kids won’t make a fussBut the most important thing for youIs to show your love in all you doA caring word, a kiss, a touchAnd those family cuddles that mean so much

and my best friend is reading

Partners @
Patience Strong
The first dance of all when they danced heart to heart
They knew, they both knew, it was only the start
Of something more wonderful than a mere dance
More than a thrill of a passing romance.
They knew without saying that Love, the real thing had
touched them that night with its shimmering wing.
No word had been spoken and yet they both knew
That suddenly all sorts of dreams had come true.
It’s many a year since the night that they met
But that first dance they will never forget
Then a boy and a girl and now husband and wife
Still happy, still dancing and partners for life.

we got them from our local council wedding site

https://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/councilservices/births-deaths-ceremonies

I am considering having this:

Calvin: Hobbes, What’s it like to fall in love?

Hobbes: Well… say the object of your affection walks by…
Calvin: Yeah?
Hobbes: First, your heart falls into your stomach and splashes your innards. All the moisture makes you sweat profusely. This condensation shorts the circuits to your brain and you get all woozy. When your brain burns out altogether, your mouth disengages and you babble like a cretin until she leaves.
Calvin: THAT'S LOVE?!?
Hobbes: Medically speaking.

Calvin: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!

I thought it was lovely, but I don't tend to be very good with the romantic stuff!

We're having I Do, I Will, I Have by Ogden Nash.

Look up stuff by pam ayres as her stuff is more funny than soppy. We had 'he never leaves the seat up' as it described us to a t!

https://sites.google.com/site/spooneditor/you-make-me-walk-lightly-1

I read this at my friends' wedding because they let me pick. Now they are reading it at mine.

My 7 year old daughter is doing a poem, not decided about any other readings yet.

How about the lovely dinosaur? That's what I want my daughter to read, wether or not she will remains to be seen!

We're having Love is Like Owning a Dog. It's a poem by Taylor Mali. It's totally apt for us as we just bought a puppy! I'll probably omit the second line though as we don't live in NYC.

Ant really wanted a reading, so he found this one from Hitchiker's Guide:

'They looked at each other for a moment.

The moment became a longer moment, and suddenly it was a very long moment, so long one could hardly tell where all the time was coming from.

For Arthur, who could usually contrive to feel self-conscious if left alone long enough with a Swiss cheese plant, the moment was one of sustained revelation. He felt on the sudden like a cramped and zoo-born animal who wakes one morning to find the door of his cage hanging quietly open and the savanna stretching gray and pink to the distant rising sun, while all around new sounds are waking.

He wondered what the new sounds were as he gazed at her openly wondering face and her eyes that smiled with a shared surprise.

He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers to the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it now said something it had never said to him before, which was,

"yes."'

My OH (also called Ant!) really wants this too!

this is lovely :-)

We had The Lovely Dinosaur by Edward Monkton.

He Never Leaves the Seat Up is a good one too!

Thank you ?

I first heard it at a mixed arts showcase night, where the poet who wrote it read it out. When he finished there was a collective "Aaaah" from the whole room.

Some really lovely ideas out there thank you for this feed!

I have just written on my blog a collection of wedding poems and readings that are suitable for civil ceremonies if anyone's still looking.

http://weddingrose.typepad.com/my-blog/2014/11/today-i-am-feeling-rather-sentimental-as-i-ponder-which-wedding-readings-to-have-at-my-civil-ceremony-my-t-and-i-have-chosen.html

There are some classic poesm and some more alternative ones too. The song my Angus and Julia Stone is perfect as a reading or to play during the ceremony/reception - it makes me tearful when I head it and I hope to walk down the aisle to it!