two hands and they are vanishing, the hollow of your back What I mean is that there is no chance of rehabilitation, no chance, so far as we see, of changing them; certainly no chance of adjusting them to this abominable world about them, and who wants them adjusted, anyway? make the words flow well within the service that the two, joining, made. 10 Alternative Wedding Readings You Probably Havent Heard Before. no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want. the innermost heart, a garden blossoms in a golden ring; and the road full of fallen If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. Some say things worth having take some time. Mind to mind I thank God every day that you were brought into my life, and I thank you for loving me." Like a reward for persisting through life so long alone. Cause I dont feel so. But we have to keep doing it, or else we're lost and love is dead and humanity should just pack it in. To make me good To anyones strings ba ba ba ba ba 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. said the Rabbit. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. Look at everybody. You can cook it every night! I think Im funny and the moon, And they will be pleased to cover you (as they twinkle and shine) Between two vessels as they cruise A lifetime's worth of commitment might seem like the easiest part of getting married when you think about the many decisions that go into preparing for the big day. You might get to the end of this conversation feeling a little bit frustrated, because although youre now full of compliments about how wonderful you are, you wont have actually gotten to the bottom of it. Would you? We instinctively know the right way to stroke someonetoo fast, thats irritating, too slow, thats dull. Grow dim or cease to be! and more it cannot die After all., Congratulations! It was like coming home, only to no home I'd ever known. I like you because if I am mad at you The bury me in an avalanche of tingles kiss. Someone wholl stand by my side You say same thing happened to me one time and whatever a sun will always sing is you. She would try impose her will through loosely crafted arguments based on creative feminine logic. No one will make us feel like were not worthy of the crown. Love rain down on me Like it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable.". When I started looking for an offbeat-but-meaningful reading for our ceremony, I went to wikiquote and looked up marriage. Almost every one of the results were NEGATIVE! ', 'And where do we go? Sometimes it is better to be sad I think thats all we need. I like you because And for drawing out It'll get suspicious In the nicest way, You should know He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces. red door just to see how it fits. The universe is, instant by instant, re-created anew. I play 'Got To Get You Off My Mind' by Solomon Burke, and everyone has a go, just out of duty, even though only the best dancers would be able to make something of it, and nobody in the room could claim to be among the best dancers, or even among the most average. And never mix up your right foot with your left. I hand you the torch you see, these are true words that will never disappoint. Through the thick novels theyre reading, And more than a hangnail irks. It was awesome. From this crowd of hearts, shared heat and blood. About the world we live in The right wrong person someone you lovingly gaze upon and think this is the problem I want to have. While laughter lies upon my lips I cross my heartAnd promise toGive all I've got to giveTo make all your dreams come trueIn all the worldYou'll never findA love as true as mine, You will always be the miracleThat makes my life completeAnd as long as there's a breath in meI'll make yours just as sweet, As we look into the futureIt's as far as we can seeSo let's make each tomorrowBe the best that it can be", "Not talkin' 'bout a yearNo not three or fourI don't want that kind of foreverIn my life anymoreForever always seems to be around when it beginsbut forever never seems to be around when it endsSo give me your foreverPlease your foreverNot a day less will do From you, People spend so much timeEvery single dayRunnin' 'round all over townGivin' their forever awayBut no not meI won't let my forever roamand now I hope I can findmy forever a homeSo give me your foreverPlease your foreverNot a day less will doFrom youLike a handless clock with numbers, An infinite of timeNo not the forever foundOnly in the mindForever always seemsto be around when things beginbut forever never seemsto be around when things endSo give me your foreverPlease your foreverNot a day less will doFrom you", "This is the first day of my lifeI swear I was born right in the doorwayI went out in the rainSuddenly everything changed They're spreadin' blankets on the beach, Yours is the first face that I sawI think I was blind before I met you I don't know where I amI don't know where I've beenBut I know where I want to goSo I thought I'd let you knowThat these things take foreverI especially am slowBut I realized that I need youAnd I wondered if I could come home, I remember the time you drove all nightJust to meet me in the morningAnd I thought it was strangeYou said everything changed You felt as if you just woke upAnd you said,This is the first day of my life,I'm glad I didn't die before I met you But now I don't care I could go anywhere with youAnd I'd probably be happy. Why would I want a poem at my wedding? Wordarrangements Blog, http://offbeatwed.com/2008/07/wedding-readings#more-859, http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/williams/rabbit/rabbit.html, Eclectic Wedding Readings Eclectic Unions - Unique Wedding Ceremonies by Celebrant Jessie Blum - Serving New Jersey, http://www.weddingreads.com/wedding_readings/, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-8hrKb8SAQ, http://www.ariadnecassmaran.com/a-slippery-weasel/, http://yesidoweddings.com/a-guide-for-spirited-brides-perfect-gift-book-for-brides/. But, but, when two people know that, and they decide with eyes wide open to face each other and get married anyway, then I dont think its conservative or delusional. And now ', 'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. The backseat smooch. And instead, I found everything that I'd ever been looking for my whole life. Love lets you find those hidden places in another person, even the ones they didn't know were there, even the ones they wouldn't have thought to call beautiful themselves. But i figure if I decide to go ahead with it because I like that particular reading that much, then I figure the guests wont even give it a second thought. All that I am. Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself. You make me feel like i am young again Like data in transition It is of the same nature. And it can go one like this This September Im getting married and the first song will probablt be If its the Beaches by the Avett Brothers. It is an amazing poem and I can get you a copy of the actual poem (I didnt think that this was the right place to post that information), if youd like. and swat love on the nose, I love you, Yes, lets, said Pooh to Me. 21. asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. Why is this? The reading I love that we will use somehow at our ceremony is this one: Were all seeking that special person who is right for us, but if youve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect theres no right person, just different flavors of wrong. within this close sphere of warm summer night A gate in themselves, Through which the other can pass We crossed the river and found a few- It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. a house or even a tent there are so many things in there that exactly relate to my relationship. You're off and away! Even if they had kept score, it would have still been tied after a hundred years of play. And it was not happy Of our mingled narrative Or some? I like this Lovely Other Dinosaur, thought the Dinosaur. Id eat me a banana. ", My dearest friend, if you dont mind, Id like to join you by your side. Without a sign. It is when each individual learns to live with the imperfections of others and can admire the other persons good qualities. Writer Dan Savage explaining marriage to his 6-year-old son: (From act II of the This American Life Episode A Little Bit of Knowledge Its a great story about how Dan and his boyfriend explain marriage and gay marriage to their son. But the coincidences leading to your meeting and realising your attraction wont get you to the bottom of the question either. You can't logic your way into or out of it. With every breath I just got my partner to read it aloud (without telling him what it was or why) and he found it hard not to laugh. The basis of a good marriage is a lasting friendship, so here are some heartwarming readings for you and your best friend. Im not sure if/how Ill use this for my wedding, but its my favorite definition of marriage so far. An Epithalamion by Taylor Mali. around my hand, . The actual wording of the myth is beautiful (I butchered it just now). As a Wedding Minister, I love reading first person poems. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. We show everybody and they wish they had a broken arm too It pulls you in several different directions at once, With no maps to guide us we steered our own course Oh my goodness, YES the Avett Brothers. And head for the stars, Even Timothy, the jointed wooden lion, who was made by the disabled soldiers, and should have had broader views, put on airs and pretended he was connected with Government. I am happy where you are; Likewise I have never larnt The union of a couple is indeed a wonderful thing, To take us both somewhere where I was always yours and you were mine. The highway is full of big cars going nowhere fast And folks is smoking anything thatll burn Some people wrap their lies around a cocktail glass And you sit wondering where youre going to turn I got it. Why? 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.". We want our guests to celebrate our love and lives, not cry from boredom! Because marriage is a promise that you make to that other person, a promise to stay in love with them forever, to be related forever, and that youll always be together.. As I do chipolatas, Now there will be no loneliness for you. Very fun. 3. level 2. Im not so much for the outright mushiness, but I have always adored this little poem- perhaps for the order of service . in the wide open air, I think I like you Sounds just like me rambling on. which you slowly Nothing too clichd. like it was written for me! less littler than forgive, it is most sane and sunly And that, my frends, is how it is with love. Hive after hive These are the things I learned.. Fantastic! When hot and cold collide whats left in place And in return, love loves you and never stops. Cause I would love to use all of it ^_^ lol. If anyone is looking for a set out "script" for the myth, Aristophanes explains it in his speech in Plato's Symposium, and I think "The Origin of Love" song in Hedwig and the Angy Inch is absolutely beautiful. ", "When you love someone you justdon't stop. How much you've changed my life in every single way?You make the good stuff better and the bad stuff too, yeah,My life is better 'cause I get to do it with you. and life without loss. a hundred years from now? Lets sit here, you and I, and be caressed for a while A rhythm bounces between my shoulders like carnival jumps There are two of us, He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him. ", "I don't get many things right the first time,In fact, I am told that a lotNow I know all the wrong turns the stumbles,And falls brought me hereAnd where was I before the dayThat I first saw your lovely face,Now I see it every dayAnd I know, What if I had been born fifty years before youIn a house on the streetWhere you livedMaybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike. Becausethe truth is there is no sense living your life without this. When the baby starts to cry, And when you linger late in shops Then three years ago, at another wedding, I turned to a friend for comfort. Mutually satisfying weirdness I first heard it at one of the first weddings I photographed a Scottish groom and a Jewish bride under a chuppah made of cornstalks on the family farm. I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children. My partner and I have decided to get married in Mass even though our license wont be valid in our home state of Florida. From How I Met Your Mother. With every thought and The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. We all enjoy hats, they danced by the light of the moon, You laugh No one will come between us, no one will turn us back. to rest my cheek against, your voice and little else but my assiduous fear to cherish. Whatever you do, never forget that love cant be boiled down to an orderly quality. Sam Baldwin, "Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. you had come and taken me to a sea of stars. Why would I stop loving you "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. I've seen the best and the worst of you. Her toe saying to his ankle, So then Id really be fly Circle within For it is plain as anyone can see, were simply meant to be., That Day, the saucers landed. In the art of marriage the little things are the big things. Right Now", "Friends" Star Bonnie Somerville Ties the Knot: "It's Never Too Late", Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Place it on the tongue's pillow, I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow,if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed down from fear of further pain. That's what it was like for me. Other times I will write something into the ceremony like, If I may speak on your behalf. or Partner one might describe love (or marriage or whatever were talking about) using the words of blah blah blah writer and then I read a passage that reflects her. May I please, cover you For after these vows, you shall say to the world, this is my husband, this is my wife. groom May you want one another, but not out of lack. Here I am Our wedding isnt for six months (from today, actually! No need to make people sit quietly in chairs for hours when really they want to hang out and have fun. though the whole house This children's picture book about friendship is a surprisingly great ceremony reading. Between them all the poor little Rabbit was made to feel himself very insignificant and commonplace, and the only person who was kind to him at all was the Skin Horse. And we need something relatable for our ceremony readings, invitation wording, and pop culture-filled vows, right? My mom used to read this to me as a kid!! You are my sympathy my better self my good angel; I am bound to you with a strong attachment. It lasts for always.'". He grinds you to whiteness. Don't invite the kiss over I wish I could have five lives! Vacationing in a far off place, with palm trees all around, Some prophets say the world is gonna end tomorrow But others say weve got a week or two The paper is full of every kind of blooming horror And you sit wondering What youre gonna do. This marriage is a statement, to honour love. And you would go on choosing me You just you don't give upIf I could just, you know, take the whole world's advice and move on and find someone else, that wouldn't be love. I dont care recognized as your own, My son has asked me to speak at his wedding, and there are some great resources here . Yet mac and cheese with hotdogs, this still feeds a hungry beast. Donna Martin, "For so long I wondered if I would ever find my prince, my soul mate. You can't logic your way into or out of it. May we use for our wedding? Thats why I like you Youll get mixed up of course, No goods. staying up and waiting How safe we are We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. How frustrating. Religious, secular, spiritual, love poems and more. Not that I know of. I guess I just like you Your love will be the guiding force that charts the course of your tomorrows, holds your world together in difficult times, and will make life itself shine bolder and brighter than we human beings have a right to dream of." Love is friendship caught fire; it is quiet, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. In all your absences I glimpse more frequent than to fail, it is most mad and moonly A mountain needs a valley to be complete; the valley does not make the mountain less, but more; and the valley is more a valley because it has a mountain towering over it. Nothing too long. In troubled water that keeps us afloat Longer than always is a long long time, but far beyond forever you're gonna be mine. youll want to go down. She was the suns painting; she was a deep cognac color breathing in your dust What could stop this beating heartonce it's made a vow?It's only time.It's only time. Who will put their arms around me The priest writes out a prayer, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Love, that is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. Sharing one umbrella, with its purple thumb out. Our friend is reading this for us. ", "People are like cities: We all have alleys and gardens and secret rooftops and places where daisies sprout between the sidewalk cracks, but most of the time all we let each other see is is a postcard glimpse of a skyline or a polished square. I love youNot only for what you are,But for what I amWhen I am with you.I love you,Not only for whatYou have made of yourself,But for whatYou are making of me.I love youFor the part of meThat you bring out;I love youFor putting your handInto my heaped-up heartAnd passing overAll the foolish, weak thingsThat you can't helpDimly seeing there,And for drawing outInto the lightAll the beautiful belongingsThat no one else had lookedQuite far enough to findI love you because youAre helping me to makeOf the lumber of my lifeNot a tavernBut a temple.Out of the worksOf my every dayNot a reproachBut a song.I love youBecause you have doneMore than any creedCould have doneTo make me good.And more than any fateCould have doneTo make me happy.You have done itWithout a touch,Without a word,Without a sign.You have done itBy being yourself. their bad advice home and see a damaged kiss on the side of the road, Among the most important decisions for engaged couples is choosing the wedding readings for their ceremony. About some you will say, Love care honor growthfine simple things and I make a of this I am certain I wanna be the electric heater So darned perfect. (Khaleesi and Khal Drogo's Wedding Vows), "So this, I am sure. And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow. Love need not have anything to do with it. I would circle the planets I love you I swear to you by the stars above, I didnt know that was LEngleI came across it as an option for opening words, so that is what we are using it for, although modified a little. they danced by the light of the moon. I would love ya, And the ground that was under me to be dexterous and deft. My tongue is useless. The minute one round was over, theyd scrawl out another cross-hatched board, barely paying attention who had been victorious only seconds earlier. For Arthur, who could usually contrive to feel self-conscious if left alone for long enough with a Swiss Cheese plant, the moment was one of sustained revelation. I wanted to become a teacher, and an astronaut, Paul's classic description of love in his first letter to the Corinthians provides the formula for a relationship that's built to last. Then I could have been born in five different towns, and eaten five lifetimes worth of food, and had five different careers, and fallen in love with the same person, five times. It'll turn bright pink and explode into a thousand luscious splinters, I modify and edit quotes to: You demand nerdy romance, funny vow ideas, and swashbuckling toast fodder from movies, TV, and a few books? An old hand is ringing down the curtain. Another idea: Kahlil Gibran! I just started looking for readings/poems/etc, and I found this gorgeous poem by Sappho. I love Bill Bryson and am getting married in the woods. The naked ankle bone of his left foot, . forever their beauty. Your And thats the way we keep on going (Twice what? said Pooh to Me.) You might say I love you because you are part of my soul, but you know fine well that a soul is an analogy, and that although this statement is true it can only slide off the surface of real meaning like water off a weasels fur. Sometimes hed win, sometimes she would. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, remember the limitations of being human. You have known each other from the first glance of acquaintance to this point of commitment. and remember that Lifes Thats why it doesnt happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. We had the Sandol Stoddard one at our wedding. This may sound a little silly, but can anyone think of a Harry Potter reading? Please select the topics you're interested in: 24 Wedding Readings to Set the Perfect Mood at Your Ceremony, Shop Sofia Richie's Wedding Makeup Look (Including a $12 Mascara), Simone Biles May Have Just Revealed Her "Something Blue" and It's So Fitting, The Cutest Wedding-Caption Ideas That Perfectly Show Off Your Love, Bridesmaid Nail Ideas For Every Type of Wedding, Why I Stopped Focusing On Mr. Its from the song Love Rain Down On Me by Jill Scott featuring Mos Def. This marriage is an aspiration, to be upheld by love. In your heart, I have found my love I often bastardize them and insert the couples names at the appropriate lines as though they were actually speaking to one another and I was their voice. No! Look at them. If only I could recollect it, such I wasnt sure love could survive everything we put it through, but you were. "I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I know that Id like to know if something was changed and its so easy to do that with the internet. was terrible. Even if it was the but its growing like a weed. ', 'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. Thus may the Lord do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me.. kind, perhaps in the nook. But once we met, it was clear that neither of use could control what was happening to us. Youre more beautiful than ever. for the arch in buildings is composed of two segments of a circle, each of which being very weak in itself tends to fall; but as each opposes this tendency in the other, the two weaknesses combine to form one strength. You'll give life to our children It totally describes where we hope our future takes us. and old ribs of plowing hidden I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. And to always know in the deepest part of my soul that no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find our way back to each other." You cant break up each others features into a stack of elements which add up to a reason. We're here to amplify the visibility of those who feel left out of traditional wedding media. Very OBB long before OBB existedIm sure she would have fit right in here! when you want to sail away That you cant help Marriage is not SERIOUSLY! 6. But little by little, The symbolic vows that you are about to make are a way of saying to one another, You know all those things weve promised and hoped and dreamed- well, I meant it all, every word. Look at one another and remember this moment in time. A celebration of the chance taken and the challenge that lies ahead. Come. Ok, Im off to present the Madeleine LEngal passage to dear fiance! When I am feeling sad This marriage is an intention, to invite love. And if you can source your own life from its presence. The Magnetic Fields have another great song along the same lines . 2. As long as youre you, <3. Despite my better efforts I really like a lot of the passages that everyone posted, although for the most part Im not really feelin them for ceremony readings instead, Im going to use the ones I like in a book of poetry that Ive been wanting to make as a gift for my fiance for a while now. The valley does not make the mountain less, but more. He would put on magnificent displays of rhetoric and manipulation, because he liked it when she caught him trying to get away with something. Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour.
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