HELP PRETTY PLEASE - Reading for ceremony

KellyLynn1210 · July 2012

I was hoping for some non-religious suggestions for the ceremony. My wedding is Friday!!! Yikes! Thanks much love!

natsfans84 · July 2012

We're using this, from Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne:

A soul mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise. Our soul mate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life.

GL!

naomikb · July 2012

We used this:
Apache Wedding Prayer
Now you will feel no rain,
for each of you will be shelter for the other.
Now you will feel no cold,
for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there will be no loneliness,
for each of you will be companion to the other.

Treat yourselves and each other with respect,
and remind yourselves often of what brought you together.
Give the highest priority to the tenderness,
gentleness and kindness that your connection deserves.
When frustration, difficulty and fear assail your relationship;
as they threaten all relationships at one time or another,
remember to focus on what is right between you,
not only the part which seems wrong.
In this way, you can ride out the storms
when clouds hide the face of the sun in your lives,
remembering that even if you lose sight of it
for a moment, the sun is still there.
And if each of you takes responsibility
for the quality of your life together,
it will be marked by abundance and delight.

Go now to your dwelling place,
To enter into the days of your life together,
And may your days be good and long upon the earth.

acaponi87 · July 2012

"Love is Friendship Caught Fire" by Laura Hendricks

"Love is friendship caught fire; it is quiet, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection, and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present, hopes for the future, and does not brood over the past. It is the day-in and day-out chronicles of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories, and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you do not have it, no matter what else there is, it is not enough."

Cackle6 · July 2012

We did three readings at our non-religous ceremony. If you google search for these you can find them. With the Gift From The Sea reading, add "marriage reading" to the google search to find it.

Union, by Robert Fulgham

(an excerpt from)A GIft From the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindberg

The Love Monkey, by Edward Monkton (sounds silly but it was really sweet and really fits if you and your FI have had past relationships and took awhile to find each other)

Tanq&Tonic · July 2012

Union, by Robert Fulgham is one of my favorites of all time.

Summer2011Bride · July 2012

Well I'm warning you I'm a Shakespeare junkie, so this may not be appealing to everyone, but one of our readings was his sonnet 116:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

daria24 · July 2012

H & I each chose our own secular reading. I chose an excerpt from Pride & Prejudice. H wanted something from a favorite author so he searched the Author Quotes pages on Goodreads until he found one he liked. Each quote has tags like "love" "wedding" etc so it's easy to search.

Spunky414 · July 2012

We haven't settled on ours but here's some from our list:

Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog by Taylor Mali

To Love is Not to Possess by James Kavanaugh

Love by Roy Croft

You bring out the boring white guy in me by Jim Daniels (kind of long)

A long quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh beginning "When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way" http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/263084

Mcanne19 · July 2012

omg I LOVE THIS!

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