A collection of readings for your wedding ceremony.
How wise I am to have instructed the butlerto instruct the first footman to instruct the secondfootman to instruct the doorman to order my carriage;I am about to volunteer a definition of marriage.Just as I know that there are two… Read More »
‘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 »
The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and… Read More »
Let love be your shelter.The world is noisy and confusing at times,So make a home that is a haven, a peaceful place where you canlisten to your hearts and savour the comfortable closeness you share. No matter how busy your… Read More »
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 »
I’m 17 years old, what can you tell me about love?MAURO, LEUVEN, BELGIUM How do I not have my heart broken?JENNY, PARIS, FRANCE Dear Mauro and Jenny, The surest way to avoid a broken heart is to love nothing and… Read More »
May the road rise to meet you,May the wind be always at your back.May the sun shine warm upon your face,The rains fall soft upon your fields.And until we meet again,May God hold you in the palm of his hand.… Read More »
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 »
The King’s BreakfastThe King askedThe Queen, andThe Queen askedThe Dairymaid:“Could we have some butter forThe Royal slice of bread?”The Queen asked the Dairymaid,The DairymaidSaid, “Certainly,I’ll go and tell the cowNowBefore she goes to bed.” The DairymaidShe curtsied,And went and toldThe… Read More »
Now comes the knitting, the tying, entwining into one.Mysterious involvement of two, whole, separate peopleInto something altogether strange and changing; new and lovely. Nothing can be, we will never be, the same again.Not merged into each other irrevocably, but ratherFrom… Read More »
Watch carefully, the magic that occurs, when you give a person, enough comfort, to just be themselves. I want to be with someone who dreams of doing everything in life and nothing on rainy Sunday afternoons. I aspire to be… Read More »
I don’t know how it is you are so familiar to me or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings… Read More »