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hihihi87 · 2023-02-07T21:20:11+00:00

Hi lovely people, we are Getting married next week and we still haven't managed to come across anything that we like. My sister will be doing a reading and everything she's suggesting sounds cheesy. So we've had a look and all I can say is .. cringe 😬 Can anyone recommend a good reading? That's romantic but not too much 😂 I'm not sure why I'm stressing. Most likely People aren't even going to listen 😂 TIA xxx

derryrose1980 · 08/02/2023 18:34

These are the hand of your best friend,

Young and strong and full of love for you,

That are holding yours on your wedding day,

As you promise to love each other today, tomorrow, and forever.

These are the hands that will work alongside yours,

As you build your future.

These are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through the years,

And with the slightest touch, will comfort you like no other.

These are the hands that will hold you when fear or grief fills your mind.

These are the hands that will countless times wipes the tears from your eyes, Tears of sorrow, and as today, tears of joy.

These are the hands that will tenderly hold your children, The hands that will help you hold your family as one.

These are the hands that will give you strength when you need it.

And lastly, these are the hands that even when wrinkled and aged, will still be reaching for yours, still giving you the same unspoken tenderness with just a touch.

TheFireflies · 08/02/2023 18:42

StinkerTroll · 07/02/2023 22:45

This is my favourite wedding reading......

All I Know About Love by Neil Gaiman
This is everything I have to tell you about love: nothing.
This is everything I've learned about marriage: nothing.

Only that the world out there is complicated,
and there are beasts in the night, and delight and pain,
and the only thing that makes it okay, sometimes,
is to reach out a hand in the darkness and find another hand to squeeze,
and not to be alone.

It's not the kisses, or never just the kisses: it's what they mean.
Somebody's got your back.
Somebody knows your worst self and somehow doesn't want to rescue you
or send for the army to rescue them.

It's not two broken halves becoming one.
It's the light from a distant lighthouse bringing you both safely home
because home is wherever you are both together.

So this is everything I have to tell you about love and marriage: nothing,
like a book without pages or a forest without trees.

Because there are things you cannot know before you experience them.
Because no study can prepare you for the joys or the trials.
Because nobody else's love, nobody else's marriage, is like yours,
and it's a road you can only learn by walking it,
a dance you cannot be taught,
a song that did not exist before you began, together, to sing.
And because in the darkness you will reach out a hand,
not knowing for certain if someone else is even there.
And your hands will meet,
and then neither of you will ever need to be alone again.

And that's all I know about love.

I wish I’d chosen this!

Instead I had Pablo Neruda.

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep

Hellocatshome · 08/02/2023 20:23

Tarkan · 07/02/2023 22:57

We had this one and Shakespeare's sonnet 116 at ours.

DC also read one called "Your Personal Penguin" which I had as a surprise to DH as he hates penguins.

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I'm sorry but how can you hate penguins?

SirSamVimesCityWatch · 08/02/2023 20:26

Hellocatshome · 08/02/2023 20:23

I'm sorry but how can you hate penguins?

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Waddly little fuckers.

OttersMayHaveShiftedInTransit · 08/02/2023 20:40

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Tarkan · 08/02/2023 20:55

I'm sorry but how can you hate penguins?

He was stationed in the Falklands years before we met and he describes them as noisy, stinky wee fuckers.

I also adopted some for him for Christmas just past (with a free cuddly toy) and for our cotton anniversary I got a lovely penguin bedding set for our room. I've bought him a couple of other penguin related gifts over the years too.

OttersMayHaveShiftedInTransit · 08/02/2023 21:02

Tarkan · 08/02/2023 20:55

I'm sorry but how can you hate penguins?

He was stationed in the Falklands years before we met and he describes them as noisy, stinky wee fuckers.

I also adopted some for him for Christmas just past (with a free cuddly toy) and for our cotton anniversary I got a lovely penguin bedding set for our room. I've bought him a couple of other penguin related gifts over the years too.

My DH was all set for 4 months on 'penguin watch' when a volcano grounded the flights. He has managed to avoid it since but whenever he is getting under my feet I threaten to call his squadron and volunteer him for a Falklands tour.

1Wanda1 · 08/02/2023 21:03

Such lovely suggestions on this thread. Except for the dinosaurs and Winnie the Pooh, which are a bit naff I think.

Congratulations on your impending wedding! Such a joyful time and I wish regularly that we could re-live ours!

1Wanda1 · 08/02/2023 21:04

I might add: one I like - perhaps more as part of a speech rather than a reading - is Ogden Nash:

"To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up."

afrikat · 08/02/2023 21:08

I like this from Captain Corelli:

Captain Corelli's Mandolin Quotes

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

by Shawn Slovo

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Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

TitoMojito · 08/02/2023 21:09

The "what's a soulmate?" speech from Dawson's Creek?

TitoMojito · 08/02/2023 21:10

Or "Mawwaige" from The Princess Bride for the funsies

BridieConvert · 08/02/2023 21:13

What about a song by an artist you both like?
My husband loves Bruce Springsteen so our reading was the lyrics of "if I should fall behind". I didn't like any of the cheesy cringey ones either! I didn't even really want a reading but the ceremony was already super short so needed it bulked out a little bit!

RockingGazelle · 08/02/2023 21:27

We had "How falling in love is like owning a dog" by Taylor Mali which suited us as our dog is our baby!

Abracadabra12345 · 08/02/2023 21:50

LeviOsaNotLeviosAR · 07/02/2023 22:46

We had Destiny. I loved it, and also found most wedding poems gave me the ick but this I loved.

Destiny

Destiny is a mysterious thing.

No matter what you do or where you go, you cannot avoid it.

And, no matter how hard you try, even putting forth your greatest effort, you can’t force it to happen before its time.

This occasion we witness today is the destiny of two souls.

There is not a force in the universe that could have kept you apart,

and there is nothing you could have done to come together sooner.

Each of you had to live your lives -

lives that were stepping stones,

that have led to this moment in time,

this uniting of hearts and minds that shall be forever more.

This occasion we celebrate today is destiny of two souls.

Yes, destiny is a marvellous and mysterious thing.

That's fabulous

AtomicRitual · 08/02/2023 22:02

The most recent wedding I went to had this

On Your Wedding Day
by Unknown

Today is a day you will always remember
The greatest in anyone's life
You'll start off the day just two people in love
And end it as husband and wife

It's a brand new beginning, the start of a journey
With moments to cherish and treasure
And although there'll be times when you both disagree
These will surely be outweighed by pleasure

You'll have heard many words of advice in the past
When the secrets of marriage were spoken
But you know that the answers lie hidden inside
Where the bond of true love lies unbroken

So live happy forever as lovers and friends
It's the dawn of a new life for you
As you stand together with love in your eyes
From the moment you whisper 'I do'

And with luck, all your hopes, and your dreams can be real
May success find its way to your hearts
Tomorrow can bring you the greatest of joy
But today is the day it all starts

dinmin · 08/02/2023 22:06

plumduck · 07/02/2023 21:44

There's a good one about trees having roots that entwine but still having room to branch out but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called

This is the Kahlil Gibran one a PP mentioned I think - from The Prophet. We had this and I picked it because it’s about remaining individuals!

otherwise can your sister ask married friends / relatives for lines of advice and assemble into a poem of sorts?!

doglover90 · 17/03/2023 17:25

Is it bad that I find half of the suggestions on here quite cheesy 😂 I would recommend:

Habitation by Margaret Atwood
Having A Coke With You by Frank O'Hara

fluffiphlox · 17/03/2023 17:33

I do hope your sister is a capable ’reader’. I’ve heard some execrable readings at weddings- cheesy bilge read by someone who seems to have seen the passage or poem for the first time and who gallops through it in a wobbly voice. I can only think of one person who made a really good fist of it and that couple are divorced now.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 17/03/2023 17:46

Nothing that was originally written as a children's book!

Agree with "Scaffolding".

DarkNurseries · 17/03/2023 19:05

doglover90 · 17/03/2023 17:25

Is it bad that I find half of the suggestions on here quite cheesy 😂 I would recommend:

Habitation by Margaret Atwood
Having A Coke With You by Frank O'Hara

You’re not wrong. There’s a lot of cheese. Mind you, I don’t think that’s Margaret Atwood’s finest hour either, and while there are things I really like about the Frank O’Hara, I think the couple would need to be art lovers or all those references to the Frick and Futurism are going to create either total bafflement or sniggers among friends and family who know Fiona and Doug are more Embarrassing Bodies and Man U than Nude Descending a Staircase…

JennyForeigner · 17/03/2023 19:18

We had the Larkin poem 'our almost instinct almost true, what will remain of us is love'

Sacked off the readers though and had a CD and the sonorous tones of horrible old Phil.

DarkNurseries · 17/03/2023 19:23

JennyForeigner · 17/03/2023 19:18

We had the Larkin poem 'our almost instinct almost true, what will remain of us is love'

Sacked off the readers though and had a CD and the sonorous tones of horrible old Phil.

Excellent! He’d have hated that.😀

zaffa · 17/03/2023 19:45

StrawberryPavlova · 07/02/2023 22:09

We had the Lovely Love Story and Union by Robert Fulghum

Union
by Robert Fulghum
You have known each other from the first glance of acquaintance to this point of commitment. At some point, you decided to marry. From that moment of yes, to this moment of yes, indeed, you have been making commitments in an informal way. All of those conversations that were held in a car, or over a meal, or during long walks – all those conversations that began with, “When we’re married”, and continued with
“I will” and “you will” and “we will” – all those late-night talks that included “someday” and “somehow” and “maybe” – and all those promises that are unspoken matters of the heart. All these common things, and more, are the real process of a wedding.
The symbolic vows that you are about to make are a way of saying to one another, “You know all those things that we’ve promised, and hoped, and dreamed – well, I meant it all, every word.”
Look at one another and remember this moment in time. Before this moment you have been many things to one another – acquaintance, friend, companion, lover, dancing partner, even teacher, for you have learned much from one another these past few years. Shortly you shall say a few words that will take you across a threshold of life, and things between you will never quite be the same.
For after today you shall say to the world –
This is my husband. This is my wife.

We had union too, and a Winnie the Pooh readings (I think it was called friends forever)

ArticSaviour · 17/03/2023 19:56

Tarkan · 08/02/2023 20:55

I'm sorry but how can you hate penguins?

He was stationed in the Falklands years before we met and he describes them as noisy, stinky wee fuckers.

I also adopted some for him for Christmas just past (with a free cuddly toy) and for our cotton anniversary I got a lovely penguin bedding set for our room. I've bought him a couple of other penguin related gifts over the years too.

Have you listened to Cabin Pressure? Reminds me of Caroline and the sheep!