Non-religious wedding readings/poems

I love A Lovely Love Story but OH thinks it's weird ☹️ so we're having:

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis De Bernieres)

https://www.itakeyou.co.uk/wedding-ideas/wedding-readings-poems/captain-corelli's-mandolin.htm

Union (Robert Fulghum)

http://www.weddingplanningwords.com/wedding-poetry-union.html

On Your Wedding Day (Anon)

http://www.hundredsoftinythreads.com/node/89

Oooh I like this one! OH thought A lovely story was odd too and pretty much turned his nose up at all the others I've showed him (too soppy) but I think this one might work!! So thanks for pointing it out x

We're also having the one from Captain Corelli and Union. They made my mam cry and didn't make my OH vomit so they must be the best ones for us!

We're having "The key to Love" http://www.inspiringthots.net/movie/key2love.php

and Chapter One of One Thousand, By O.J.Preston - it's on page 2 of this link, but there are also lots of other ideas. https://www.akentishceremony.com/FCKfiles/File/Poems messages of celebration.pdf

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Oh my goodness, Union is so lovely - beautiful but without the vomit-inducing factor! I think that's gotta go on the list - thanks ladies! Thankfully, H2B loves A Lovely Love Story as it's a bit odd - my mother will turn her nose up about a poem that involves a dinosaur, but who cares - we like it! xx

Have you considered the Apache wedding blessing, rather sweet without being sickening if you know what I mean.

Now you will feel no rain
For each of you will be shelter to the other.
Now each of you will feel no cold
For each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no loneliness for you
For each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two persons
But there is one life before you.
Go now to your dwelling place to enter into the days of your togetherness
And may your days be good and long upon the earth.

Exactly what I was looking for in a reading lol! Couldn't have anything too soppy!

Just shed a little tear reading Union (may be slightly hormonal LOL). I think that is perfect for ours too.?

We have decided that we would like one of our readings to be funny and we have managed to whittle it down to:

Yes I'll Marry You, by Pam Ayres
Yes, I'll marry you, my dear,
And here's the reason why;
So I can push you out of bed
When the baby starts to cry,
And if we hear a knocking
And it's creepy and it's late,
I hand you the torch you see,
And you investigate.

Yes I'll marry you, my dear,
You may not apprehend it,
But when the tumble-drier goes
It's you that has to mend it,
You have to face the neighbour
Should our labrador attack him,
And if a drunkard fondles me
It's you that has to whack him.

Yes, I'll marry you,
You're virile and you're lean,
My house is like a pigsty
You can help to keep it clean.
That sexy little dinner
Which you served by candlelight,
As I do chipolatas,
You can cook it every night!

It's you who has to work the drill
and put up curtain track,
And when I've got PMT it's you who gets the flak,
I do see great advantages,
But none of them for you,
And so before you see the light,
I do, I do, I do!

OR

Love me when I'm old and shocking
Peel off my elastic stockings
Swing me from the chandeliers
Let's be randy bad old dears

Push around my chromed Bath Chair
Let me tease your white chest hair
Scaring children, swapping dentures
Let us have some great adventures

Take me to the Dogs and Bingo
Teach me how to speak the lingo
Bone my eels and bring me tea
Show me how it's meant to be

Take me to your special places
Watching all the puzzled faces
You in shorts and socks and sandals
Me with warts and huge love-handles

As the need for love enthrals
Wrestle with my dampproof smalls
Make me laugh without constraint
Buy me chocolate body paint

Hold me safe throughout the night
When my hair has turned to white
Believe me when I say it's true
I've waited all my life for you.

I can't remember whom the second one is by.

"The Art of a Good Marriage" on that link is also brilliant ?

Love 'Yes I'll Marry You by Pam, its so funny, definately a way to make sure everyone smiles!