Non-Traditional Reading for ceremony

anniej212 · July 2010

Looking for a non-traditional, preferably non-religious reading at the ceremony. Something kinda cool like a poem, movie quote (have to be a long one obviously), or song lyrics. Any ideas??? Thanks!

future-mrs · July 2010

I took some vows and ceremony text from some of the girls here and FI and I have been slowly working on it to make it our own. It's pretty non-tradition but beautiful. I got most of it from TheSun because her text was beautiful and exactly what I was looking for.

You can see it in my Bio for ideas if ya want.

twilight.rose · July 2010

I used the poem "I Do" that was originally in Sex and the City. It's really cute, and a little quirky. Several guests at our wedding commented that they really liked it (we didn't state in the program where it was originally used.)

anniej212 · July 2010

Where could I find that from SATC? I did a quick google and didn't see it......thanks!!

twilight.rose · July 2010

I have it..PM'ing it to you now!

mdrswedding · July 2010

Can you send the SATC poem to me to please

anniej212 · July 2010

Oh, i did know that one, thank you!!

twilight.rose · July 2010

Annie- No problem!

And Mdrs- Just PM'd it to you.

mdrswedding · July 2010

Thank you!

frogurt814 · July 2010

We used the reading A Lovely Love Story by Edward Monkton. You should be able to google it.

melliott09 · July 2010

Oh could I get the SATC version as well????

Thanks!

twilight.rose · July 2010

PMing it to you now, Melliott.

mandi921vh · July 2010

Can you send me the poem as well please?

twilight.rose · August 2010

PM'ing you now, mandi.

JenO24 · August 2010

We're having a poem read called "hands of the bride and groom."

These are the hands of your best friend, young and strong and vibrant with love, that are holding yours on your wedding day, as he promises to love you all the days of his life.

These are the hands that will work along side yours, as together you build your future, as you laugh and cry, as you share your innermost secrets and dreams.

These are the hands you will place with expectant joy against your stomach, until he too, feels his child stir within you.

These are the hands that look so large and strong, yet will be so gentle as he holds your baby for the first time.

These are the hands that will work long hours for you and your new family

These are that hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through the years, for a lifetime of happiness.

These are the hands that will countless times wipe the tears from your eyes: tears of sorrow and tears of joy

These are the hands that will comfort you in illness, and hold you when fear or grief wrack your mind.

These are the hands that will tenderly lift your chin and brush your cheek as they raise your face to look into his eyes: eyes that are filled completely with his overwhelming love and desire for you.

[Groom's name], please hold [Bride's name]’s hands, palms up, where you may see the gift that they are to you. These are the hands of your best friend, smooth, young and carefree, that are holding yours on your wedding day, as she pledges her love and commitment to you all the days of her life.

These are the hands that will hold each child in tender love, soothing them through illness and hurt, supporting and encouraging them along the way, and knowing when it is time to let go

These are the hands that will massage tension from you neck and back in the evenings after you’ve both had a long hard day.

These are the hands that will hold you tight as you struggle through difficult times

These are the hands that will comfort you when you are sick, or console you when you are grieving.

They are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through the years, for a lifetime of happiness.

These are the hands that will hold you in joy and excitement and hope, each time she tells you that you are to have another child, that together you have created a new life.

These are the hands that will give you support as she encourages you to chase down your dreams. Together as a team, everything you wish for can be realized.

ebachelder · August 2010

We are using Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, which basically talks about the permanence of love:

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-fixéd 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

hankinsm · August 2010

We are using two different non-traditional, non-religious readings for our breach ceremony in 18 days!!
The first is "Friendship and Love"

It is often said that it is love that makes the world go round.
However, without doubt, it is friendship that keeps our spinning existence
on an even keel. True Friendship provides so many of the essentials
for a happy life...
It is the mortar which bonds us together in harmony,
and it is the calm, warm protection we sometimes need when the world outside seems cold and chaotic.
True Friendship nurtures our hopes, supports us in our disappointments,
and encourages us to grow to our best potential.
______and _______ came together as friends.
Today they pledge to each other not only their love, but also the strength, warmth, and the fun of true friendship.
This day, these friends will marry with love.
And as love brings new meaning to life, so marriage brings new meaning to love.

The second reading is Art of Marriage (which actually has a long and short version). Here is the longer version: (short can be found via google)

Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens. A good marriage must be created. In the art of Marriage, the little things are the big things; it is never being too old to hold hands. It is reminder to say, I love you as least once a day. It is never going to sleep angry. It is at no time taking the other for granted; the courtship should not end with the honeymoon, it should continue through all the years. It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives. It is standing together facing the world. It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family. It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude of duty or sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy. It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways. It is not expecting the husband to wear a halo or the wife to have wings of an angel. It is not looking for perfection in each other; it is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a sense of humor. It is having the capacity to forgive and forget. It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow. It is finding room for the things of the spirit. It is a common search for the good and the beautiful. It is establishing a relationship in which independence is equal, dependence is mutual and obligation is reciprocal. It is not only marrying the right partner; it is being the right partner.

ebachelder · August 2010

Just posted this on another thread as well, but a sort of joking, childlike, singsongy poem by Ogden Nash - my fiance has dubbed it too codependent for our ceremony, but I like it; I think the codependent parts aren't meant to be taken literally but rather as just a cute little rhyme. Here's the poem:

Tin Wedding Whistle

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Though you know it anyhow
Listen to me, darling, now,
Proving what I need not prove
How I know I love you, love.
Near and far, near and far,
I am happy where you are;
Likewise I have never larnt
How to be it where you aren't.
Far and wide, far and wide,
I can walk with you beside;
Furthermore, I tell you what,
I sit and sulk where you are not.
Visitors remark my frown
Where you're upstairs and I am down,
Yes, and I'm afraid I pout
When I'm indoors and you are out;
But how contentedly I view
Any room containing you.
In fact I care not where you be,
Just as long as it's with me.
In all your absences I glimpse
Fire and flood and trolls and imps.
Is your train a minute slothful?
I goad the stationmaster wrothful.
When with friends to bridge you drive
I never know if you're alive,
And when you linger late in shops
I long to telephone the cops.
Yet how worth the waiting for,
To see you coming through the door.
Somehow, I can be complacent
Never but with you adjacent.
Near and far, near and far,
I am happy where you are;
Likewise I have never larnt
How to be it where you aren't.
Then grudge me not my fond endeavor,
To hold you in my sight forever;
Let none, not even you, disparage
Such a valid reason for a marriage.

Poppy715 · August 2010

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 instantly she knew
She was a question to be answered
And his answer was "I do"

Norms Angel Forever · September 2010

This was written for us by a dear friend of mine, she has a way with words but sadly passed away a few months ago and will not be able to read it at our wedding. I will have a friend reading it regardless but I love the words and i think they have some amazing meaning:
This is love : Love is learned through time. It is continuously being tested through the moments experienced by two people over the course of life. Love is created out of the joys, sorrows, accomplishments, and failures that lovers share. That's what gives love it's durability. It's only as strong as what it's been through, only as strong as what lovers make of it. Two people give birth to love, it strengthens, but in order for that to happen, love demands obstacles. It continues to grow, but in order for it to grow, it demands time.

Love takes time, but is quick to act--in rescuing, comforting and teaching.

True love between two people doesn't demand reciprocity. Reciprocity is granted and lovers don't doubt it about one another. In true love, people inherently realize the need to meet each other halfway.

People long for love's ability to heal. Undeniably, love does heal but in their fixation on finding this love, people mistake love for something perfect.
Love isn't perfect. When a person falls, love is there to try to pick them up. When a person makes a wrong decision, love is there to try to make it right .Love tries. It's compromise. Love isn't selfish. It's not an excuse to control other people. Lovers look out for the other's best interest, but it doesn’t command. Love isn't about power.

Love is understanding, understanding that two people in this world are entirely different. Despite how similar two people believe themselves to be, they aren't completely. Sure, love between two people is a union, but it's a union based on support and understanding. Love understands that the other person has their own set of goals, dreams, and values. In their union, lovers endure and help each other in accomplishing their separate dreams. Lovers don't agree all the time. A conflict of interest shouldn't be answered by one person completely yielding to the other. Love and growth involves conflict. Disagreements are inevitable, but love doesn't ask "How do we avoid arguments?" instead asks, "What do we do to solve this?" Love communicates and seeks to open minds. Love educates.

Love is too many things. There's a thin line between love and a lot of things, but true love is something special, precious and something to be grateful for.

Love is faith, trust, passion, friendship. Love lives and is formed out of everything life throws at it. Love is beautiful but is built partly out of pain... has to be. It's dualistic--it can't exist without the bad. When lovers endure even the worst the world can throw at them, they know, they learn, that their love can last, their love can make it through anything.Love has no set pace. Sometimes you can’t help if your heart beats a little faster but its okay to settle for a slow down. It’s worth the wait. Even though the years roll on, the little butterflies that arise in your heart when your lover is near is a sign the fire still burns, that love is still growing. Love is always near, it bridges every distance. And never ceases to appear when you least expect it. True love puts connection first without fear and lies. True love is when the past and future unite to form new souls, new life and new change.

Here, today, these two lives will forever be changed, united with the bond of marriage, with the strength and support of family and friends and with the knowledge that from this day forward they will always have one another, in the good and the bad, there will forever be a love to come home to. God Bless and Enjoy!

and could you send me the SATC quote too pleease

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