Wedding Readings
The Meaning of True Love
The meaning of true love isn’t found in a book Or explained in a word or a phrase. It can’t be defined in a casual thought Or explained in the simplest of ways. Love gives only itself, it does not possess Yet creates a bond strong and true. Love does not demand, it stays young […]
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
what is it with you and sunflowers he asks i point to the field of yellow outside sunflowers worship the sun i tell him only when it arrives do they rise when the sun leaves they bow their heads in mourning that is what the sun does to those flowers it’s what you do to […]
Having a Coke With You by Frank O'Hara
is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonneor being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelonapartly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastianpartly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurtpartly because of the fluorescent […]
Love Sonnet 17 by Pablo Neruda, 'I Love You Without Knowing You'
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of the carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never bloomsbut carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;thanks […]
As Long As Your Eyes Are Blue, by A B Banjo Paterson
Wilt thou love me, sweet, when my hair is grey And my cheeks shall have lost their hue? When the charms of youth shall have passed away, Will your love as of old prove true? For the looks may change, and the heart may range, And the love be no longer fond; Wilt thou love […]
Touch The Air Softly, by William Jay Smith
Now touch the air softly, step gently, one, two … I’ll love you ’til roses are robin’s egg blue; I’ll love you ’til gravel is eaten for bread, And lemons are orange, and lavender’s red. Now touch the air softly, swing gently the broom. I’ll love you ’til windows are all of a room; And […]
What Love Isn't, by Yrsa Daley-Ward
It is not a five star stay. It is not compliments and it is never ever flattery. It is solid. Not sweet but always nutritious Always herb, always salt. Sometimes grit. It is now and till the end. It is never a slither, never a little is a full serving it is much too much […]
Everybody's Free by Baz Luhrmann
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ’99Wear sunscreen If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be itA long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientistsWhereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliableThan my own meandering experience, I will dispense this advice now Enjoy the […]
Serenity Prayer by Brian Bilston
Send me a slow news day, a quiet, subdued day, in which nothing much happens of note, just the passing of time, the consumption of wine, and a re-run of Murder, She Wrote. Grant me a no news day, a spare-me-your-views day, in which nothing much happens at all – a few hours together, some […]
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
When he looked into her eyes, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke — the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. What the boy felt at that moment was that […]
Red Leather For Tea, by Kristen E. Nelson
One I build a fire and think, what is your experience of fire? I see soot on my fingers and remember your fire on my fingers I approach with open palms; the only way to approach a wild thing When I clasp it is for an embrace The press is an honoring; as is the […]
Love Does Not Come to an End
Reading from the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians (12: 31–13: 8) Be ambitious for the higher gifts. And I am going to show you a way that is better than any of them. If I have all the eloquence of men or of angels, but speak without love, I am simply a gong […]
