Did you/ will you have them in your ceremony? Which ones? I'm really curious to know what other people do.
Our officiant emailed me this morning and asked if there are any particular readings FI and I want to use. Good question. We're not doing a religious ceremony since he and I are both not religious. We're including some Jewish traditions for the sake of my family history and a Celtic tradition for the sake of his family's history. But other than that... no plans yet.
I've been googling non-religious readings and there's some really good ones out there. And some really cute ones. I particularly like this one (but I haven't had a chance to run it past FI just yet):
now there are two of us
Now there
are two of us, instead of only one,
two times as many things get left half undone.
We’re twice as half-asleep when the new day has begun
and maybe twice as on the run,
’cause some of them will still be making fun of us.
They’ll say the two of you will never be one of us.
But even if that’s true,
they’ll have twice as much to do
when there are two of us,
and one of them is you.
They’ll find the two of us much harder to restrain,
outsmarted by our impressive double brain
If one of us runs dry, still another will remain,
and it’s twice as hard to pull the chain
of two of us, against a ton of them:
but two of us outnumber every single one of them.
Two lives are semi-rough
with half the rent and twice the stuff.
There are two of us, and that should be enough.
Look at everybody.
Everybody’s always
falling apart or breaking up.
But the two of us never will be one of those,
and I should know– I have had a run of those
Our love’s not guaranteed,
but it’s growing like a weed.
There are two of us,
I think that’s all we need.
From the ‘Mr T Experience