Hit me with your best wedding readings

[Paulhasalongmoustache]

Straight couple , white British, non religious
young
what have you heard and loved?

I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
On Marriage by Khalil Gibran

The Road Home by Michael Dennis Browne. It's a poem rather than a reading and isn't literally about love or marriage, but about finding the way (or person) to lead you home.
I think it's beautiful. There's a gorgeous musical setting of it as well by Stephen Paulus. Voces8 have a fabulous version of it.

Oh thank you, everybody, linking in the bride to be now

Not the dinosaur one. I feel everyone has the dinosaur one.

And I love Seamus Heaney but it feels like it's the law that every Irish wedding has Scaffolding.

I realise I haven't offered any actual suggestions.

Marriage doesn't come flat packed is a good one

I read this at my nephew's wedding last year.

Marriage by William Letford -

Oh the places you'll go by Dr Seuss

We had a poem written for us by a wedding poet - we answered a questionnaire for her and she then nailed it with a lovely funny poem all about us. Would highly recommend as more unusual than a standard wedding reading.

Ooh can you share their website?

We had goodwill hunting and withering heights

This was it

One of ours was bob marley's he's not perfect. I'll try find a link

This one

There's a reading from Winnie the Pooh about love, think it's said by piglet - not a dry eye in the house when it was recited perfectly by my friends 6 year old niece in a packed church at her wedding, that 6 year old is now a 20 something young actor currently performing in Shakespeare!

Thanks everyone

Hinterhof is a classic

What is love from the Velveteen Rabbit.

'This Marriage' by Rumi is nice, albeit with an abrupt ending.

There's also the famous excerpt from Captain Corelli's Mandolin, about trees whose roots grow together and become intertwined?

There's also 'Love Bade Me Welcome' by George Herbert, but that might be for a more religious/literary crowd.

www.lovemydress.net/blog/wedding-readings/i-rely-on-you-by-hovis-presley

@Paulhasalongmoustache

Sorry was 10+ years ago have had a look for an email but long deleted. Looks like there are few if you google personalised wedding poem.

We had 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.

This is lovely, and I get it.

One of my most love filled moments was one valentines night when I got food poisoning in a hotel, shat the bed (tried to clean it). Stayed in the bed all day, watched IT tv series together whilst he ate chocolate, also spilling it on the bed. I said to him, his mess looked like he had shat the bed, whereas I really had shat the bed. He laughed, I knew he was a keeper.

We had Pablo Neruda Sonnet 17 but I can imagine it’s not for everyone.

We also had the velveteen rabbit but that’s only because I wanted to make my friend read “does it mean having things that buzz inside you” with a straight face.

We had this:

Extract from The Amber Spyglass – Philip 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, we’ll be joined so tight…