Help..Child Friendly poem / reading

Oh lord. P u s s y cat....

Too short?

May this special day you share
Be filled with love and laughter
May all the days ahead
Be happy ever after

or

Once upon a time you two met
You've shared much love and laughter
May your marriage be a fairy tale
Happy ever after

I'm glad I'm in the fairy tale
And you are too I guess
Congratulations, King and Queen
From your fairy tale Princess

I like the king and queen one...I am worried she will get all shy and not read it lol

That was why I thought the first one might be a bit better as it will be over really quickly but the second one was designed for such an occasion as yours (thank heavens for Americans on this one!) She could prectise either one and say it on the day with somebody holding her hand

Yea her Auntie (OH's SIL) is a BM so she can help her if she needs to. If she freezes she doesnt have to say it.

I like it. I will run it by her. thanks!

I really like these lyrics:- You could adapt them for your step-daughter?

May the angels protect you
Trouble neglect you
And heaven accept you when its time to go home
May you always have plenty
The glass never empty
Know in your belly
You're never alone

May your tears come from laughing
You find friends worth having
With every year passing
They mean more than gold
May you win but stay humble
Smile more than grumble
And know when you stumble
You're never alone

Never alone
Never alone
I'll be in every beat of your heart
When you face the unknown
Wherever you fly
This isn't goodbye
My love will follow you stay with you
Baby you're never alone

My SIL got her daughter to read an extract from The Velveteen Rabbit which was very cute:

EXCERPT FROM THE VELVETEEN RABBIT
~ By 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 a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but 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 all loose in the 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."

That is beautiful. i may have to take it for consideration with OH!

Re-reading that princess one - if she says it perfectly I would put money on there not being a single dry eye

My nephew read a lovely Love Story by Edward Monkton:

A Lovely Love Story

~ by Edward Monkton ~

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 Dionsaur, 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 thought 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.

I remember finding another whuich was a child describing a wedding but cant seem to find it on my lap top! I remember going on the Your Wedding websiteand they had hundreds catorgarised for Funny, childrens, religious, sentimental etc, its worth a look!

A lovely love story is really cute......quite a nice one for a child to read.

My 2 children read 'I like you' by Sandon Stoddard Warburg..It's a bit, well a lot lengthy but a really lovely story...they read it together between them and it was just so sweet watching and listening to them...xxx