Ceremony Bible Reading?

amberlynned · April 2010

Hey Ladies,
FI and I are working on our ceremony and can't choose a reading. For those of you that are using readings, what excerpt, verse, or scripture are you using?
TIA

On_Cloud_Nine · April 2010

We're using Song of Solomon 8:6-7.

We wanted something that was a bit different from the usual 1 Cor. 13 (though I love that passage). I've always liked Song of Solomon 8:6-7, and once I got FI on board, it was good to go.

The other choice I had was Ruth 1:16 (even though it's technically a daughter-in-law to her mother-in-law, it's still a nice passage).

jacki_sue · April 2010

Pastor is going to read the love verse from Corinthians. I don't care if it's overused or played out. I still love that verse.

Our ceremony is very short and we don't have typical readers... so I think that may be about it. I'm putting my favorite verse in the programs, though! (1john4:18)

J

katanne9 · April 2010

We're using a passage from 1 John and an excerpt from Frederick Buechner's ABCs of Faith. Both are listed in my planning bio.

iamjoesgurl · April 2010

We had 1 Corinthians 13 (I didn't care that everyone uses this) and Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. The Ecclesiastes scripture:

9 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: 10 If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! 11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? 12 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Since DH and I are best friends, we felt like this was a great scripture to describe why we were getting married. Also, we interpreted the cord of three strands that cannot quickly be broken as our relationship with Christ as the center of it.

amberlynned · April 2010

iamjoesgurl, thats beautiful! I always wondered what the third cord was

I've been lurking on other website boards and discovered this: ceremony readings.

I am absolutely loving the Corinthians verse.

but as a reading we are considering either 'Love is Not to Possess' by James Kavanaugh or 'On Love' by Thomas a Kempis

On_Cloud_Nine · April 2010

I just wanted to say that I love 1 Cor. 13, and I hope I didn't come across as saying it's overused or anything, because that's not what I meant.

It's one of my favorites. It's even on a photo frame that I have. So just wanted to clarify that!

B&B1221 · April 2010

We are using the Eccl 4:9-12 during our cord ceremony. And if we do have a song that we have everyone sing along with, I would like to have Psalm 34:3 read before it begins. "O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together."

As far as during the vows part, we will most likely use Genesis and 1 Cor.

aneresRN · April 2010

Iamjoesgirl, I love that verse and it was one of the ones I was considering using for mine. We'll probably also use the Corrinthians one as well. Even if it is used in almost every wedding, it's such a beautiful verse.

jrpetrik · April 2010

We still have to make a decision on this point -- we're trying to stick pretty heavily to the PCA's Book of Church Order -- but Ephesians 5:22-33 is beautiful, and since we got engaged, it's definitely take on new heights of meaning to me:

22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

JKeyes2011 · April 2010

We're doing the typical 1 Cor 13. It's been a fav verse of mine since I was like 13. We have it painted around my family room at my house and its only right that we have it.
To make it special my little cousin is going to read it. After he reads it my Maid of Honor will sing Stacie Orrico's "Without Love" since the song is basically the scripture.

amberlynned · April 2010

We are still stumped. We want to do something different, but are thinking about doing something classic.... oh I don't know! :O

On_Cloud_Nine · April 2010

What about one of Shakespear's sonnets, if you want something classical?

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