NON-religious ceremonies and readings

Re: NON-religious ceremonies and readings

• [Deleted User] member

  

  July 2015 edited July 2015

  We are not having a religious ceremony either. My fiance chose "Maybe," (author unknown) for his reading and I chose a Dr. Seuss quote about falling in mutual weird with someone because we're always asking each other if we are weird.
  
  I don't know if either of these meet your requirement for something humorous, bit there are LOTS of secular readings quotes- you just have Google and spend some time reading.
  
  Good luck.

  

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• [Deleted User] member

  

  July 2015

  LOVE by Roy Croft

  I love you,

  Not only for what you are,

  But for what I am

  When I am with you.

  I love you,

  Not only for what

  You have made of yourself,

  But for what

  You are making of me.

  I love you

  For the part of me

  That you bring out;

  I love you

  For putting your hand

  Into my heaped-up heart

  And passing over

  All the foolish, weak things

  That you can’t help

  Dimly seeing there,

  And for drawing out

  Into the light

  All the beautiful belongings

  That no one else had looked

  Quite far enough to find.

  I love you because you

  Are helping me to make

  Of the lumber of my life

  Not a tavern

  But a temple;

  Out of the works

  Of my every day

  Not a reproach

  But a song.

  I love you

  Because you have done

  More than any creed

  Could have done

  To make me good,

  And more than any fate

  To make me happy.

  You have done it

  Without a touch,

  Without a word,

  Without a sign.

  You have done it

  By being yourself.

  
  

  
  

  The Art of a Good Marriage by Wilferd Arlan Peterson

  A good marriage must be created.

  In marriage the “little” things are the big things.

  It is never being too old to hold hands.

  It is remembering to say, ”I love you” at least once a day.

  It is never going to sleep angry.

  It is having a mutual sense of values, and common objectives.

  It is standing together and facing the world.

  It is forming a circle that gathers in the whole family.

  It is speaking words of appreciation, and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways.

  It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.

  It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow.

  It is a common search for the good and the beautiful.

  It is not only marrying the right person — it is being the right partner.

  
  

  
  

  Union by Robert Fulghum

  You have known each other from the first glance of acquaintance to this point of commitment. At some point, you decided to marry. From that moment of yes, to this moment of yes, indeed, you have been making commitments in an informal way. All of those conversations that were held in a car, or over a meal, or during long walks – all those conversations that began with, “When we’re married”, and continued with “I will” and “you will” and “we will” – all those late night talks that included “someday” and “somehow” and “maybe” – and all those promises that are unspoken matters of the heart. All these common things, and more, are the real process of a wedding.

  
  

  The symbolic vows that you are about to make are a way of saying to one another, “You know all those things that we’ve promised, and hoped, and dreamed – well, I meant it all, every word.”

  
  

  Look at one another and remember this moment in time. Before this moment you have been many things to one another – acquaintance, friend, companion, lover, dancing partner, even teacher, for you have learned much from one another these past few years. Shortly you shall say a few words that will take you across a threshold of life, and things between you will never quite be the same.

  
  

  For after today you shall say to the world –

  This is my husband. This is my wife.

  
  

  

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• lachattefatale member

  

  July 2015

  I looove the Velveteen Rabbit bit often used at weddings, in which the Skin Horse describes becoming real. But that might be too sappy for you, and not particularly humorous.

  

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• Fosmoh member

  

  July 2015

  lachattefatale said:

  I looove the Velveteen Rabbit bit often used at weddings, in which the Skin Horse describes becoming real. But that might be too sappy for you, and not particularly humorous.

  awe that's a cute idea.
  May be something sweet for our son to read 

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• ohmrs2014 Dirty Jerz mod

  

  July 2015

  We actually did the Velveteen Rabbit, but only because there was a line in there at that I thought described us perfectly.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

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• STARMOON44 member

  

  July 2015

  Obergefell v Hodges has some nice passages to read.

  

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