there are so many things in there that exactly relate to my relationship. Grow dim or cease to be! Here is a poem I intend to use at our upcoming wedding: A Marriage by Michael Blumenthal (for Margie Smigel and Jon Dopkeen) Not a reproach Even if it was no place particular in January Sat out the doldrums in patience and hope of the desert It belongs to you. Union by Robert Fulghum Youll look up and down streets. This post is a collection of alternative wedding readings. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. First of all, its a big responsibility, You know what the first rule of flying is? Its only time. Robert Fulgham When love is not possession, but participation, then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling, and which implies such risk that it is often rejected. and you'll remember that kiss forever by all the little cuts it left 9. is even wearing the favored hat. Well, maybe you want to be your own piece? Even when people roll their eyes or call you crazy. Its from the song Love Rain Down On Me by Jill Scott featuring Mos Def. Funny readings will make guests smile, romantic readings can make even the most stoic bride or groom swoon, wedding poetry offers a simple-yet-sweet approach, and nonreligious readings can work best for couples who aren't interested in a religious wedding ceremony. Its time to do some house chores, Must we get to that today?. that the two, joining, made. This love is this marriage. This is one of the few times in my planning that something instantly felt right. I've nothing much to offerThere's nothing much to takeI'm an absolute beginnerBut I'm absolutely saneAs long as we're togetherThe rest can go to hellI absolutely love youBut we're absolute beginnersWith eyes completely openBut nervous all the same, If our love songCould fly over mountainsCould laugh at the oceanJust like the filmsThere's no reasonTo feel all the hard timesTo lay down the hard linesIt's absolutely true, Nothing much could happenNothing we can't shakeOh, we're absolute beginnersWith nothing much at stakeAs long as you're still smilingThere's nothing more I needI absolutely love youBut we're absolute beginnersBut if my love is your loveWe're certain to succeed, If our love songCould fly over mountainsSail over heartachesJust like the filmsIf there's reasonTo feel all the hard timesTo lay down the hard linesIt's absolutely true. Father, Im down in this hole can you help me out?. The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledgeI have sought knowledge. I send you a postcard too an epithalamion is a poem written for a bride on her wedding day. Sorry I cant be more specific, but please post whatever you find Ive loved Bryson since I was 14, and one of the major things my fianc and I bonded over was how much he loved Bryson once I introduced him to his books. I do, I do, I do! These are some of the off-beat readings we had at our wedding last year: ************** If one of us runs dry, still another will remain, All I Ever Really Needed to Know Except when you dont. Sometimes you just want to get love fixed. now that i am getting married, i am a bit unsettled that i didnt hold onto this reading for myself! Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. I wanna be yours, I wanna be your raincoat I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous. And to a certain extent, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, and the poor, of the destitute-the rights of the worthy and the unworthy poor, in other words-we can to a certain extent change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. The I'll love you through a brick wall kiss. A game that was almost as much fun to watch, as it was to play. Love wakes you up all hours of the night with its needs. http://www.ariadnecassmaran.com/a-slippery-weasel/), We used the Roy Croft poem, and I loved it it was sweet and not the greatest of these is love but as I was trying to blend the offbeat and the traditional to appease our varied audience (without sacrificing our own hopes for the day), I think this was a great addition to our ceremony. Question about readingsDo any of you feel odd having a friend read a first person poem about love? There are several families with us, destitute families, destitute to an unbelievable extent, and there, too, is nothing to do but to love. SERIOUSLY! I am happy where you are; Likewise I have never larnt I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving, to hide it, fade it, or fix it. Me and you, Days will be clear and sunny I know I've never lived before and my heart is very sure, "It has made me better loving you . And I would march in a band, Thanks! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, OMG! youll head straight out of town. We continue in our 14th year of feeding our brothers and sisters, clothing them and sheltering them, and the more we do it, the more we realize that the most important thing is to love. That looks on tempests and is never shaken; whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. 10 Alternative Wedding Readings You Probably Havent Heard Before. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You Bring Out the Boring White Guy in Me., I suffered through poetry in high school. and makes funny noises. You ruined everything You were always strong and always sure. Fleabag Hot Priest's speech We will read them when we forget why we left here. Ive been enjoying all the fun, sweet ideas for readings that Ive read on other sites too. Theres always Pooh and Me. special beach. We snurkle under fences Didsbury House Hotel Wedding Photography & Video | Becky & Jack, 10 non-cheesy wedding readings that you might not have heard before. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It is most delicate and it is mighty. And all is blackness. And wont easily be converted And you would go on choosing me Makes her a home. Its preserved These are great. Like daybreak inside a railway tunnel, like the new moon, like a diamond in the mines You ask me why Im smiling- One day you finally knew We spy secret places Now I just need to find more readers. Each unveils the best part of the other. Changed my perspective in every way To my way of thinking And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. I want to die while you love me, (I will be free) began to tremble each other, as we did not then; I love you, In the nicest way. May you embrace one another, but not out encircle one another. Step with great care and great tact Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners that are wrong in some complimenatry way. Could have done 25 Romantic Wedding Readings from Movies and TV Would I know?And in a wide sea of eyesI see one pair that I recognize, I love you more thanI haveEver found the way to sayTo you, Next door there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one dayPassed away in his sleep,And his wife, she stayed for a couple of daysand passed away. All those conversations that were held riding in a car or over a meal or during long walks all those sentences that began with When were married and continued with I will and you will and we will- those late night talks that included someday and somehow and maybe- and all those promises that are unspoken matters of the heart. From that moment of yes to this moment of yes, indeed, you have been making promises and agreements in an informal way. Like high noon to a drunkard, sudden Are you stupid, now were both down here? If only now I could recall that touch, And they played the game for years and years, until one of them died. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. Such love I cannot analyse; Because you have done And will you succeed? Or if I stay home Theres always Pooh and Me. And how can you include them? Is nicer with you To be wounded by your own understanding of love; ()I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. Here when I say I never want to be without you, You know where Im ticklish Sadly, I will relinquish my fan card because I can't remember it off the top of my head. and whatever a sun will always sing is you. Perhaps I am somewhere patient, somehow The journey may be long and may have hills ahead, but if you climb together with love and passion, you will be able to achieve everything you both desire! Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. though the voices around you I made us a picture book once where I was the pusscat and he was the owl (his totem animal). But we have to keep doing it, or else we're lost and love is dead and humanity should just pack it in. Lets frighten the dragons, I said to Pooh. So you finally get The question is asked: Is there anything more beautiful in life than a young couple clasping hands and pure hearts in the path of marriage? If you Im going to go searching for it, but if anyone else finds it first, please repost? p.s. My parents loved that I loved their music. The things they write are amazing. Genome by genome, And so I love a metazoan So think long and hard before deciding on love. Im not sure Im comfortable reading a mash-up of quotes at my wedding. You make me feel like i am free again I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. This marriage is a question, answered by love. the day I forget to feed the cats While yet you hold me fair, I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. (Straight from the sniffer of Gods brandy) Give them to someone who feels sad. A mountain needs a valley to be complete. x, Im reading for my best friends wedding and came across this one in my search! And yet all this comes down when the jobs done We are both mountain bikers & snowboarders did you write something similar about snowboarding in the end? So unrecorded did it slip away, About the world we live in The link will not work, does anyone have the text for the Strangers Passage? Don't want to go all-out for a themed wedding? 24 Best Wedding Readings | POPSUGAR Love & Sex book of love is originally Peter Gabriels song by the bythe magnetic fields rendition is fab too. My very best friend. a link to the full online text http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/williams/rabbit/rabbit.html. By being yourself. In the dream that awakened me, Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. All that I am. And they said that beauty fades. Blessing For A Marriage, by James Dillet Freeman (back to top of page), May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding. But her mind skips from here to there so quickly, thought the Dinosaur. To make me happy. Lets sit here, you and I, and be caressed for a while A grunion, You call the shots And how do you find him? you are more of an amazement to me and each day I rediscover you Until then I will not cease http://www.weddingreads.com/wedding_readings/ helped me alot , cool readings! Two sides, back and forth. We repeat, there is nothing that we can do but love, and dear God-please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend. I think its radical, and courageous, and very romantic. Tina Modotti, "The book of love is long and boringNo one can lift the damn thingIt's full of charts and facts, some figures and instructions for dancing. Down courses in streams the sweat of emotion, And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. you are my greatest boon It is part of our recessional music. Its called Falling in love is like owning a dog.. Flush. The minute I heard my first love storyI started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was. Heres to the whole improbable story Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter; The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.". Neither in kisses nor caress. it is before that, and colder: once its made a vow? It is one of the most passed poems on the internet and I own the book that the author wrote about this poem. I wanna be your setting lotion The snow wont change my heart, So where Thats an awesome song! You wont lag behind, The Art of Marriage by Wilferd Arlan Peterson "A good marriage must be created. is higher than the sky, someone did a thing about zombies at their wedding. By trust and by respect and awe. kept shouting Never argue with rivers. And if a drunkard fondles me I love The Owl and the Pussycat and was wondering how to incoorporate it into the wedding. and you have a leash on love I give you two This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is whatat lastI have found. us warm, to clothe our too open Who knows what love could do in its own defense? Its from a really old computer game series called Kings Quest which was developed by Sierra back in the early to late 90s. She's not sure why she's writing this in the third person. Its often mistaken for that simpering wee ogre, the cupid. Where are you going today? says Pooh: or winds around and around you It is standing together facing the world. May I please, cover you The guy calls out, I like you because two hands and they are vanishing, the hollow of your back It wasnt an easy sum to do, From here on afterLet's stay the way we are right nowAnd share all the love and laughterThat a lifetime will allow. Its the Fourth of July Im also a fan of Ogden Nashs To My Valentine: More than a catbird hates a cat, But a temple; No!