XP: Ceremony Readings

squirrly

I posted on Ceremony Ideas too, but I really figure I'll get more responses here.  I will be up for a bit, but will eventually have to go to bed & check back in the morning.

I have collected a ton (in my bio - http://squirrlyplanning.weebly.com/ceremony-readings.html).  But. . . only one that FI also likes (Union by Robert Fulgham).  We'd like to have two in the ceremony (which we're writing ourselves - a friend is officiating for us). 

So - anybody have other ideas?  I'd prefer something a bit shorter than the first one.  Maybe even cool song lyrics. 

Kati0105

I didn't read through all the ones in your bio so not sure if this is in there but I really like the poem Carrie wrote for a friend's wedding on SATC, as cheesy as that sounds.  Here it is:

His hello was the end of her endings,
Her laugh was their first step down the aisle.
His hand would be hers to hold forever,
His forever was as simple as her smile.

He said she was what was missing.
She said she instantly new.
She was a question to be answered.
And his answer was “I do.”

LarissaAnn

Byron:

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair’d the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

Robert Louis Stevenson:

Small is the trust when love is green
In sap of early years;
A little thing steps in between
And kisses turn to tears.
Awhile - and see how love be grown
In loveliness and power!
Awhile, it loves the sweets alone,
But next it loves the sour.
A little love is none at all
That wanders or that fears;
A hearty love dwells still at call
To kisses or to tears.
Such then be mine, my love to give,
And such be yours to take:-
A faith to hold, a life to live,
For lovingkindness' sake:
Should you be sad, should you be gay,
Or should you prove unkind,
A love to hold the growing way
And keep the helping mind:-
A love to turn the laugh on care
When wrinkled care appears,
And, with an equal will, to share
Your losses and your tears.

kd.joseph

We received a book from his daughter and her husband (that they received for their wedding) "Bartletts words for a Wedding". We've found quite a few in there.

kd.joseph

Also this is the reading our preacher is putting into our vows:

Robert Sexton who writes, "There is no moment of my life when you are not a part of me; you hold my heart; you guard my soul; you guide my dreams so tenderly and if my will might be done, and all I long for could come true, with perfect joy I would choose to share eternity with you.”

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

Part of the Bob Dylan Wedding Song:

http://www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/wedding-song

And Shakespeare's 116th Sonnet:

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/116.html

Crap, I had more and can't find them.