Poetry
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Rumi
Few words capture the spirit of a wedding ceremony quite like those of Rumi, the 13th century Persian poet and Sufi mystic whose writing has moved hearts across centuries and cultures. This Marriage is one of his most beloved poems,… Read More »
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Mary Oliver
Red Bird by Mary Oliver is a quietly beautiful choice for a wedding ceremony reading. Its central theme – gratitude for the one brilliant, vivid presence that lights up your world – translates perfectly to the feeling of finding your… Read More »
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C.P. Cavafy
If you are looking for a meaningful wedding ceremony reading about love, life and the journey you choose to take together, C. P. Cavafy’s Ithaka is a beautiful choice. This much loved poem speaks to the value of taking your… Read More »
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J.R.R. Tolkein
Lo! Young we are and yet have stoodlike planted hearts in the great Sunof Love so long (as two fair treesin woodland or in open dalestand utterly entwined and breathethe airs and suck the very lighttogether) that we have becomeas… Read More »
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Robert Burns
O my Luve is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve is like the melody That’s sweetly played in tune. So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I; And… Read More »
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Lemn Sissay
If there was ever oneWhom when you were sleepingWould wipe your tearsWhen in dreams you were weeping;Who would offer you timeWhen others demand;Whose love lay more infiniteThan grains of sand. If there was ever oneTo whom you could cry;Who would… Read More »
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George The Poet
There’s an indescribable beauty in union In two beings forming one new being Entering each other’s world Surrendering each other’s selves Accepting the invitation to be everything to someone else There’s an unparalleled bravery in union In telling the one… Read More »
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Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
Does the sun promise to shine?No, but it will—even behind the darkest clouds,and no promisewill make it shine longer or brighterfor that is its fate,to burn until it can burn no more.To love you is not my promisebut my fate—to… Read More »
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Eileen Rafter
The sun danced on the snowwith a glittering smile, As two lovers sat quietly,alone for a while. Then he turned and said, witha casual air, (Though he blushed from histoes to the tips of his hair) “I think I’d quite… Read More »
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Jane Wells
‘Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break. Believe the best rather than the worst. People have a way of living up… Read More »
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Rachel Bright
Together, you are the bubbles in one another’s champagneThe morning sun through a windowThe breaking of a smile. Together, you are the one doughnut in the bag with more jam than all the others.That photo where everybody looks great.The know-all-the-words,… Read More »
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Tony Kushner
Conjunction, assemblage, congress, union:Life isn’t meant to be lived alone.A life apart is a desperate fiction.Life is an intermediate business:a field of light bordered by lovea sea of desire stretched between shores. Marriage is the strength of union.Marriage is the… Read More »