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Literature, poetry, movies, or songs
- Consider passages from literature, poetry, movies, or songs that have spoken to you over the years and have served to clarify what love, marriage, and commitment mean. These are all wonderful options for ceremony readings.
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Jul 30, 2024 · A wedding reading is a reading, poem or verse read aloud during your wedding ceremony – typically by a family member, friend or member of the wedding party. The reading can come from anywhere, including quotes from a film, song or book, a poem that you love, or perhaps a Bible verse.
Apr 10, 2024 · And because the words shared before your vows are so special, choosing the right reading is key. Here, we're sharing the best wedding ceremony readings from literature, poetry, film,...
- Kristi Kellogg
Wedding ceremony readings bring love to life, and provide a stage to honor important people within the couple’s life. Here, the top 13 to consider.
- Hannah Nowack
- "Untitled" by R.M. Drake. "You will be the clouds/ And I will be the sky./ You will be the ocean/ And I will be the shore./ You will be the trees/ And I will be the wind./
- Every Day by David Levithan. "This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot.
- "Love is an Adventure" by Pierre Tielhard de Chardin. "Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops like the universe itself only by perpetual discovery.
- Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins. "Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice.
- Jacqueline Mann
- "To Love Is Not To Possess," by James Kavanaugh. "To love is not to possess/ To own or imprison/ Nor to lose one's self in another/ Love is to join and separate/ To walk alone and together/ To find a laughing freedom/ That lonely isolation does not permit/ It is finally to be able/ To be who we really are/ No longer clinging in childish dependency/ Nor docilely living separate lives in silence/ It is to be perfectly one's self/ And perfectly joined in permanent commitment/ To another--and to one's inner self/ Love only endures when it moves like waves/ Receding and returning gently or passionately/ Or moving lovingly like the tide/ In the moon's own predictable harmony/ Because finally, despite a child's scars/ Or an adult's deepest wounds/ They are openly free to be/ Who they really are--and always secretly were/ In the very core of their being/ Where true and lasting love can alone abide."
- "Love Sonnet 17," by Pablo Neruda. "I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz/ or the arrow of the carnations the fire shoots off/ I love you as certain dark things are to be loved/ in secret, between the shadow and the soul/ I love you as the plant that never blooms/ but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers/ thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance/ risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body/ I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where/ I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride/ so I live you because I know no other way/ than this: where I does not exist, nor you/ so close that your hand on my chest is my hand/ so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."
- "Touched by an Angel," by Maya Angelou. "We, unaccustomed to courage/ exiles from delight/ live coiled in shells of loneliness/ until love leaves its high holy temple/ and comes into our sight/ to liberate us into life/ Love arrives/ and in its train come ecstasies/ old memories of pleasure/ ancient histories of pain/ Yet if we are bold/ love strikes away the chains of fear/ from our souls/ We are weaned from our timidity/ In the flush of love's light/ we dare be brave/ And suddenly we see/ that love costs all we are/ and will ever be/ Yet it is only love/ which sets us free."
- "Love Song," by Henry Dumas. "Beloved/ I have to adore the earth/ The wind must have heard/ your voice once/ It echoes and sings like you/ The soil must have tasted/ you once/ It is laden with your scent/ The trees honor you/ in gold/ and blush when you pass/ I know why the north country/ is frozen/ It has been trying to preserve/ your memory/ I know why the desert/ burns with fever/ It was wept too long without you/ On hands and knees/ the ocean begs up the beach/ and falls at your feet/ I have to adore/ the mirror of the earth/ You have taught her well/ how to be beautiful."
Whether you're someone who adores classics like Shakespeare and Beethoven, a fan of sweet and sentimental poetry, or a modern romantic who loves books and music, we have cherry-picked our favourite readings that will suit every kind of wedding ceremony. We've even compiled them in one easy list for you to peruse.
Sep 19, 2024 · 38 Wedding Poems About Love That Are Perfect for Vows, Ceremony Readings, and Toasts. These are some of the most beautiful writings on love we've ever read.
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