Wedding Readings
A collection of readings for your wedding ceremony.
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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 »
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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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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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A A Milne
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 »
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Rowena Edlin-White
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 »
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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 »
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Lang Leav
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 »
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of being and ideal grace.I love thee to the level of… Read More »
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Whitney Hanson
They say that sometimeslove starts with a spark. And that might be true,but if I were to wish you a love,I wouldn’t wish fire for you. You see, fire is powerful.It burns bright and then it’s gone.It’s beautiful and warm,but… Read More »
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Mark Twain
I cannot promise you a life of sunshine; I cannot promise riches, wealth, or gold; I cannot promise you an easy pathway That leads away from change or growing old. But I can promise all my heart’s devotion; A smile… Read More »