Wedding Readings
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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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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 »
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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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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 »
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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 »
