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Wedding Readings

A collection of readings for your wedding ceremony.

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  • Invisible Kisses

    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 »

  • The Beauty of Union

    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 »

  • Thoughts In a Garden

    Robert Gerhardt

    This is a special place, a place where people have brought beautiful living plants, here to establish them, to nurture and care for them, that they may forever surround us with the beauty we now see. And into this place… Read More »

  • Does The Sun Promise To Shine?

    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 »

  • The Promise

    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 »

  • I Do, I Will, I Have

    Ogden Nash

    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 »

  • ‍Marriage Advice from 1886

    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 »

  • Love’s Philosophy

    Percy Shelley

    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 »

  • How to Make a Beautiful Life Together

    Anon

    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 »

  • You Are The Bubbles

    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 »

  • What Can You Tell Me About Love?

    Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files

    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 »

  • An Irish Blessing

    Anon

    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 »