Need help finding less serious ceremony readings..

ratio326 · April 2012

I've been looking for excerpts for my two future sisters-in-law to read at my fiance and my wedding, but they're all so serious and we are not at all serious people. Does anyone have any suggestions of reading or places to find readings that are light-hearted/funny?

ceh789 · April 2012

I'm thinking about using this (we're dog people):

"Falling in Love is Like Owning a Dog" by Taylor Mali

First of all, it's a big responsibility,

So think long and hard before deciding on love.

But love gives you a lot of things…

On cold winter nights, love is warm.

It lies between you and lives and breathes

and makes funny noises.

Love can wake you up all hours of the night with its needs.

Love can give you a sense of security:

When you're walking down the street late at night

and you have a leash on love,

ain't no one gonna mess with you.

Love needs to be fed so it will grow and stay healthy.

Love does not like being left alone for long.

But come home and love is always happy to see you.

Love may break a few things accidentally in its passion for life,

but you can never be mad at love for long.

Love leaves you little surprises here and there.

Love makes messes.

Sometimes you just want to get love fixed.

Sometimes you want to roll up a piece of newspaper

and swat love on the nose,

But then love gives you big kisses,

And you laugh at the little things.

Sometimes love just wants to play.

Running you around the block, leaving you panting.

It pulls you in several different directions at once,

or winds around and around you,

until you're all wound up and can't move.

And love brings you together.

People who have nothing in common but love

stop and talk and greet each other on the street.

Most importantly, love needs love, and lots of it.

And in return, love loves you and loves you and never stops.

Or this:

I Wanna Grow Old With You (Adam Sandler in the Weddng Singer)

I wanna make you smile,

Whenever you're sad.

Carry you around when your arthritis is bad.

All I wanna do,

Is grow old with you.

I'll get you medicine,

When your tummy aches.

Build you a fire if the furnace breaks.

Oh it could be so nice,

Growin' old with you.

I'll miss you, kiss you,

Give you my coat when you are cold.

Need you, feed you.

Even let you hold the remote control.

So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink.

Put you to bed when you've had too much to drink.

Oh I could be the man,

Who grows old with you.

I wanna grow old with you.

vexie · April 2012

I read this exerpt from The Velveteen Rabbit at my friends weddings. It's still a bit serious, but really cute too

"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.

"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

"I suppose you are real?" said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive. But the Skin Horse only smiled.

"The Boy's Uncle made me Real," he said. "That was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."

NOLAbridealmost · April 2012

Confession: just cried reading the Velveteen rabbit passage.

That is all.

emidle2008 · April 2012

One of our readings is 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. This is the "Love is Patient" passage. It ties in perfectly with the song we are using during our sand ceremony, "Love Never Fail" by Brandon Heath. VIDEO CLICK

SunshineShades · April 2012

I saw this one we were thinking of doing
http://ategato.tumblr.com/post/1178367035
It is long, but I have seen it in other places where people cut parts out.

We are doing
Thank you by Led Zepplin
Celtic Blessing

There is also A Lovely Love Story

mdeidre · April 2012

Google something about "what children say about love". I read it somewhere, or maybe it was one of those emails that people forward on and on, but it was all of these things children say about love and it's so funny, but not really all that far off.

mdeidre · April 2012

I knew not to keep reading the Velveteen Rabbit, by the way, I've been gotten by that one before!

toothpastechica · April 2012

I had a friend who had a Dr. Seuss poem read at her wedding. I forget what it was or I would post it, but it was fun.

TheGoalIsSoul · April 2012

We are using the love is like owning a dog one and this one!

All of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.

These are the things I learned...

Share everything.

Play fair.

Don't hit people.

Put things back where you found them.

Clean up your own mess.

Don't take things that aren't yours.

Say sorry when you hurt somebody.

Wash your hands before you eat.

Flush.

Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Give them to someone who feels sad.

Live a balanced life.

Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day.

Take a nap every afternoon.

Be aware of wonder.

Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

amandahugnkiss13 · April 2012

I have heard MANY stories of men at weddings laughing in their seats becasue in the Velveteen Rabbit reading it says SKIN HORSE...keep that in mind. My husband heard it at a wedding and it was our wireless router password for quite a while, due to hilarity.

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