Help...

Is it a religious or civil ceremony?

Civil then there are loads of options, as long as they don't mention anything religious, from song lyrics, poems, readings from books etc. I'm not sure about religious stuff.

Do you have a talented friend who could write you something?

We're having 2 things written especially for us, and a poem called "falling in love is like owning a dog". We wanted something that would mean something to us, and was a bit different. We had thought about excerpts from our favorite book Peter Pan but we couldn't find anything perfect.

We are having our first one 'Friendship'by Judy Bielicki

We are having a civil ceremony! x

I could probably write something....

We're allowed 3 so we're having:

Christopher Brennan

Because She Would Ask Me Why I Love Her
If questioning would make us wise
No eyes would ever gaze in eyes;
If all our tale were told in speech
No mouths would wander each to each.

Were spirits free from mortal mesh
And love not bound in hearts of flesh
No aching breasts would yearn to meet
And find their ecstasy complete.

For who is there that lives and knows
The secret powers by which he grows?
Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?

Then seek not, sweet, the "If" and "Why"
I love you now until I die.
For I must love because I live
And life in me is what you give.


Rumi.

Do You Love Me?
A lover asked his beloved,
Do you love yourself more
than you love me?

The beloved replied,
I have died to myself
and I live for you.

I’ve disappeared from myself
and my attributes.
I am present only for you.

I have forgotten all my learning,
but from knowing you
I have become a scholar.

I have lost all my strength,
but from your power
I am able.

If I love myself
I love you.
If I love you
I love myself.

Jose Marti

Love is... born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation!

And my own vows open with a finnish poem by eeva kilpi

HE STEPPED INSIDE MY DOOR

Let me know right away
if I'm disturbing you.
he said
as he stepped inside my door,
and i"ll leave the way I came.

Not only do you disturb me,
I answered,
You turn my whole world
upside down.
Welcome.

But i think mine might be an acquired taste as a friend i read them too didn't understand half of them! haha

are you looking for something deep and meaningful? love filled? sweet? funny?

i'm happy to hunt, if i know what for

We had 'Always Love Each Other' by Larry S Chengges

Always Love Each Other

If you can always be as close
And as happy as today,
Yet be secure enough to grow
And change along the way.

If you can keep for you alone
Your love as man and wife,
Yet find the time to share your joy
With others in your life.

If you can be as one
And walk through marriage hand in hand,
Yet still support the goals and dreams
That each of you have planned.

If you can dare to always go
Your separate ways together,
Then all the wonder of today
Will stay with you forever.

Sorted! Thanks everyone x

Sorted??? ooooh what did you go for?

This is our second reading now :

( my oh neice is reading it x )

Awwwww ❤️ lovely choice

We throughly bored our guests with 2 readins and personal vows- vomit!

We had these 2; (I am aware the Dinosaur one is Marmite but our BM did us proud)

The fierce Dinosaur was trapped inside his cage of ice.

Although it was cold he was happy in there. It was, after all, his cage.

Then along came the Lovely Other Dinosaur.

The Lovely Other Dinosaur melted the Dinosaur’s cage with kind words and loving thoughts.

I like this Dinosaur thought the Lovely Other Dinosaur.

Although he is fierce he is also tender and he is funny.

He is also quite clever though I will not tell him this for now.

I like this Lovely Other Dinosaur, thought the Dinosaur.

She is beautiful and she is different and she smells so nice.

She is also a free spirit which is a quality I much admire in a dinosaur.

But he can be so distant and so peculiar at times, thought the Lovely Other Dinosaur.

He is also overly fond of things.

Are all Dinosaurs so overly fond of things?

But her mind skips from here to there so quickly thought the Dinosaur.

She is also uncommonly keen on shopping.

Are all Lovely Other Dinosaurs so uncommonly keen on shopping?

I will forgive his peculiarity and his concern for things, thought the Lovely Other Dinosaur.

For they are part of what makes him a richly charactered individual.

I will forgive her skipping mind and her fondness for shopping, thought the Dinosaur.

For she fills our life with beautiful thoughts and wonderful surprises. Besides,

I am not unkeen on shopping either.

Now the Dinosaur and the Lovely Other Dinosaur are old.

Look at them.

Together they stand on the hill telling each other stories and feeling the warmth of the sun on their backs.

And that, my friends, is how it is with love.

Let us all be Dinosaurs and Lovely Other Dinosaurs together.

For the sun is warm.

And the world is a beautiful place

and then this one;

The sun danced on the snow
with a glittering smile,

As two lovers sat quietly,
alone for a while.

Then he turned and said, with
a casual air,

(Though he blushed from his
toes to the tips of his hair)

“I think I’d quite like
to get married to you.”

“Well then,” she said,
“well there’s a thought,

But what if we can’t vow
to be all that we ought?

Can you promise me, say, you
won’t grumble and shout

If I’m late yet again when
we plan to go out?
For I know I can’t say that I’ll learn to ignore

Dirty socks and damp towels
strewn all over the floor.

So if we can’t promise to
be all that we should,

I’m not sure what to do,
though the idea’s quite good.”

But he gently smiled and tilted
his head

Till his lips met her ear,
then softly he said,

“I promise, to weave my dreams
into your own.

That wherever you breathe shall
be my heart’s home.

I promise, that whether with
rags or with gold I am blessed,

Your smile is the jewel I shall
treasure the best.

Do you think then, my love,
we should marry, do you?”

“Yes,” she said smiling

“I do.”

Aww welling up at this one. Really sums us up.

I'm having the Dinosaur one, the boy wasn't keen at first but as I am a Dinosaur I felt it was appropriate. We are also having a Welsh reading.

We wanted a quick ceremony and only had one reading, which was from so long and thanks for all the fish:

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 for 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 awakes one morning to find the door to his cage hanging quietly open and the savannah stretching grey 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 till it now said something it had never said to him before, which was "Yes."

I would love to have the Lovely Dinosaur reading but I don't think my OH would want it.

In church, we want to have some selections from the Song of Solomon (nothing too saucy though!).

i also like a poem called My True Love Hath My Heart by Sir Philip Sydney