Wedding readings are driving me mental !!

Anything on here you might like?

http://www.poemsource.com/wedding-poems.html

I love 'The Best is Yet to Be'

Im struggling too... cant find anything suitable or what I like either.... I have the vicar coming over in 2 weeks to discuss service and I still havent found anything!!!

Soz not much help... but I know what your going through.?

Juliet x

I love our wedding poem but it's a bit old for little ones to read out.

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

What about 'the lovely dinosaur?'

For my church wedding we gave up and had 2 biblical readings as we have very different taste in poetry, I didn't fancy the classic shakespearian sonnet "let me not to the marriage of true minds" as we studied a satire of it at school and I can't hear it without quoting the very bitter satire and OH vetoed the Elizabeth Barrett Browning I liked. The only thing we liked needed too much editing for a church wedding and our families wouldn't have got it. Total nightmare!

This is what I'm having - you could always take some lines out if it's too long (I took out the religious lines) or maybe they could say a line each?

The little things are the big things.
It is never being too old to hold hands.
It is remembering to say "I love you" at least once a day.
It is never going to sleep angry.
It is at no time taking the other for granted, the courtship should not end with the honeymoon.
It should continue through all the years.
It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives.
It is standing together facing the world.

It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family.
It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude of duty or sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy.
It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways.
It is not expecting the husband to wear a halo or the wife to have wings of an angel.
It is not looking for perfection in each other.
It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a sense of humour.
It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.
It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow.
It is finding room for the things of the spirit.
It is a common search for the good and the beautiful.
It is establishing a relationship in which the independence is equal, dependence is mutual and the obligation is reciprocal.
It is not only marrying the right partner, it is being the right partner.

I second Mini, the lovely dinosaur is perfect for two kids to read together!

How about asks ng them to write something themselves? It would be more meaningful and memorable.... Just a romantic thought as I'm a bit of an old sop ;0) xx

Google a poem called weddings by mrs reef (i think) it quite light hearted and perhaps they could have a paragraph each to read? X

My two neices are doing a reading at our wedding (aged 6 and 12). They are reading this....

Adapted from ‘Love is a Handful of Honey’ (Giles Andreae)

Love is that warm cosy feeling, a cuddle that tells you you’re sweet.
And love is that feeling of laughing out loud when somebody tickles your feet.

Love is a handful of honey and love’s making friends with the bees,
Even the flowers are bursting with love, when they're dancing about in the breeze.

Love is splish-splashing through puddles and getting soaked through in the rain.
Love is a rainbow that bursts through the sky when the sun begins shining again.

Love is when you can't stop describing what you've been doing all day,
and love is when somebody quietly listens to everything you've got to say.

Love is a bedtime story that takes you to faraway lands,
and love's when you want to show someone you care so you snuggle up and hold hands.

And then when you're tired and sleepy, and you’re both tucked up all tight,
Love is that last little cuddle and kiss that helps you sleep safe through the night.