Wedding readings

[Lucylocks222]

I’ve posted in ‘what we are reading’ but realise it will not be seen by everyone and ‘relationships’ is also a really relevant place to ask.

Does anyone have any suggestions of beautiful wedding readings?

Thank you

Union by Robert Fulghum

www.lovemydress.net/blog/wedding-readings/union-by-robert-fulghum

There's a book called 'Readings for Weddings' by Mark Oakley. It's a mixture of religious and non-religious and is full of unexpected, non-cliched gems.

Chapter One of One Thousand by O. J. Preston:

For two people this dawn brought on a magical day
Now husband and wife they head on their way
As a boat setting sail may their journey begin
With calmest of waters, most helpful of wind
And if they should stumble upon turbulent sea
May it pass them unharming – leave them be.

For here are two people whom love has well bitten
Here opens their book which has yet to be written
As the first page unfolds and their life inks its path
May it write a true story where forever love lasts
Let their journey be happy till death do they part
Of one thousand chapters may this be the start.

True Love was read at my relatives wedding and was just lovely:

True love

True love is a sacred flame
That burns eternally,
And none can dim its special glow
Or change its destiny.
True love speaks in tender tones
And hears with gentle ear,
True love gives with open heart
And true love conquers fear.
True love makes no harsh demands
It neither rules nor binds,
And true love holds with gentle hands
The hearts that it entwines.

@venusandmars

Velveteen Rabbit? The Owl and the Pussycat?

One starts: “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nanna came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”

The other has a repeated chorus: O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!

I'd not have either of those at my wedding.

😂

I am Scottish and my friend read A red, red rose by Robert Burns which was lovely.

The problem with the Velveteen Rabbit extract is getting past this bit without giggling; 'Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”

Cloths of Heaven by Yeats is short, but beautiful

@Pootles34 especially with the juxtaposition of 'rabbit'