who did you pick to do readings at your ceremony?

tparty10 · August 2010

For those of you who had people do readings at your ceremony - who did you pick to do them? How about to bring up the gifts?? What was your decision making process?? I have no idea who to pick - would love to hear who others picked and why. Thanks

stapletond · August 2010

We had three readings at our wedding and had our immediate family members read. My brother, my husbands' sister, and my Father-in-law each read a poem. We had our mothers light the unity candle and then my dad walked me down the aisle. We wanted to involve everyone in our immediate family.

demarcosjd · August 2010

We had 2 readers. We decided to each have one of our cousins that we were really close with.

peaches85 · August 2010

FI and I are having a kind of unique ceremony and readings to represent our different cultures. Because FI was raised Catholic we're doing three readings, but they won't be the traditional religious readings because we're getting married outside of the Catholic church. One reading will be in Spanish by a close friend of FI's family because he's very close to both of us and is an incredible public speaker (he used to be a judge in Colombia). Another reading will be done in Greek by my Yia-Yia's brother because he's the patriarch of the Greek side of my family. And the third reading will be done in English by my aunt who has literally helped FI and me with every step of our wedding and aside from our parents and siblings, she's the most excited person about our wedding.

akmackay · August 2010

We had three readings- two were done by my close friends who I wish I could've had as BMs but I already had too many, the other was done by my neihbor who has always been a second mother to me, both growing up and now.

Our godmothers brought up the gifts.

Our moms lit the unity candles.

Both my parents walked me up the aisle.

dmoney79 · August 2010

we had 2 readers....i asked my brother in law, i really wanted him to be in the wedding, but didn't want to make mh ask him to be a bm (he had already picked his guys)....so, i had him walk my mom down, and do a reading....
mh asked his cousin to do the other reading...i thought i fair, since we had 2 readings that i asked someone and he asked someone...
as for gifts, we were going to do godparents, but then we just went with our

mbcdefg · August 2010

We had three readings ... my uncle, MH's aunt and our mutual friend.

The gifts were brought up by his aunt and my cousin/godmother.

Just Jen · August 2010

We had 2 readings:

One was BM, the other MOH.

There was a really clear line for us with the people who were in the wedding party--our family and very best friends. After that, we have many people who we are equally close with, and singling only two of them out would have been weird. So we just stuck with who we had.

Danes983 · August 2010

We will do 1 reading and I picked my college roommate. She would have been in the wedding but about 5 months before I got engaged we had a huge blowout and I didnt know if our relationship would be the same. This was the way I could include her without it seeming like a BM afterthought.

TaraandRichforever · August 2010

We had two of my husbands sisters and my MOH do the readings at our ceremony.

sk2342 · August 2010

so far we both have our god parents doing readings and our mothers bringing down the gifts

lblumetti · August 2010

We are having 2 readings. One read by my uncle, who is also my godfather, and the other read by FI's mother.

jaimelody · August 2010

We had 3 readers. 2 were our godparents -my godmother his godfather. And the third was a very close family friend.

Gabriella26 · August 2010

We have two readings both done by very close mutual friends that we wish we could have included in our wedding party but didn't. And my mom and his dad are lighting our unity candle. We wanted his dad to be a part of our ceremony and he's the only one who doesn't have a job

kwilkinson14 · August 2010

We are going to pick close family that we couldn't include in our BP. It may be close cousins, god-parents, etc. They are not finalized but defiintely going to be someone we are close to.

uppereastgirl · August 2010

Our sisters, who were bridesmaids. We didn't have two other people that made sense to pull into the ceremony, and that way even though our sisters weren't MOH, they got special duties.

lmcit23 · August 2010

2 readings - one from his side which is his aunt and one from my side which is my uncle.

anglwolfie · August 2010

We had two readings, one was done by DH's two sisters and the other was done by my brother. None of them were in the wedding party, so we thought this would be a nice way to include them in the ceremony.

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