to ask you what readings you DON'T hear very often at weddings??

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Posted for traffic. Need to choose a wedding reading (civil ceremony) and looking for something that isn't read at every single wedding.

I like that Edward Monkton one about the dinosaurs but I've heard that one a lot in recent years.

Help?

Union by Robert Fulghum

Mein Kampf?

Bart

Perhaps I should have stipulated, obviously has to be suitable for a wedding...

I've always quite liked this one, and am yet to hear it at a wedding -

The Bridge Across Forever by Richard Bach
“A soul mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soul mate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life.”

I had wanted The Promise by Eileen Raffter at my own wedding but my readers ended up writing their own poems which was lovely

Not sure if it's popular but I haven't heard it at a wedding so far.

We had 'in that still and settled place'.
Hadn't heard it before and I absolutely love it

We had Sonnet 130 (my choice). Only reading I have ever felt connected to.

Was going to suggest the lovely dinosaur as we had that at ours and had never heard it before...but I see it’s one you’ve come across a lot

We had Psalm 121.

A relative had Falling in love is like owning a dog (couple big dog lovers). The reader read it with a comedic angle and it was very well received. The registrar said she’d never heard it before

Heard this at a wedding on Saturday. Loved it.

“I Like You” by Sandol Stoddard Warburg
I like you and I know why
I like you because you are a good person to like
I like you because when I tell you something special, you know it’s special
And you remember it a long, long time
You say, “Remember when you told me something special?”
And both of us remember
When I think something is important
You think it’s important too
We have good ideas
When I say something funny, you laugh
I think I’m funny and you think I’m funny too
You know how to be silly
That’s why I like you
If I am getting ready to pop a paper bag,
then you are getting ready to jump
I like you because when I am feeling sad
You don’t always cheer me up right away
Sometimes it is better to be sad
You want to think about things
It takes time
I like you because if I am mad at you
Then you are mad at me too
It’s awful when the other person isn’t
I can’t remember when I didn’t like you
It must have been lonesome then
Even if it was the 999th of July
Even if it was August
Even if it was way down at the bottom of November
I would go on choosing you
And you would go on choosing me
Over and over again
And that’s how it would happen every time

That's lovely, @savingherlife !

@Didntwanttochangemyname that is beautiful :)

We had Bob Marley, He’s not perfect but I think that is quite popular !
I saved this before our wedding as I thought it was lovely.

I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke. Awesome.

saving I really love that.

We had I Rely On You by Hovis Prestly.
A friend had He's Not Perfect by Bob Marley.

John Steinbeck’s letter to his son - www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2015/read-john-steinbeck-s-letter-of-fatherly-advice-to-his-son/

The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman:

“I will love you forever; whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again… I’ll be looking for you, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one’ll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you… We’ll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams… And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won’t just be able to take one, they’ll have to take two, one of you and one of me.”

E e cummings - I carry your heart

If you’re a dog lover... We had one called ‘everything I learned about love I learned from my dog’. Our registrar was about to retire, it was her penultimate wedding and she hadn’t heard it before and loved it.

I don't know what to choose for my wedding either!

I like he wishes for the cloths of heaven by yeats

Is “confirmation” by Edwin Muir one of the wedding classics? I hadn’t heard it before we had it at our wedding, and I’ve heard it only once since... could be super popular and I just don’t know though!

We had the dinosaur one but it was 5 ago, I don't think it was as popular then!

We had the one that saving posted, but took our favourite lines from the full book and put them together, so was more personalised.

We also had the Apache wedding blessing which I just adore. I really wanted Seamus Heaney Scaffolding, but decided on the above two instead.

We had Foxtrot From A Play by Auden-

"The soldier loves his rifle,
The scholar loves his books,
The farmer loves his horses,
The film star loves her looks.
There’s love the whole world over
Wherever you may be;
Some lose their rest for gay Mae West,
But you’re my cup of tea." etc.

We're massive tea fans and our favours were teatowels, so it worked for us.

We had the Amber Spyglass one posted already and Shakespeare's Sonnet 116.