We've compiled some unique options from TV shows, movies, and songs. While less poetic than a song or poem it feels raw and real, and that’s part of its charm. Let the beauty we love be what we do. She was a question to be answered Love often knows no limits but overflows all bounds. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that’s why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory.”. Typically, a wedding reading helps convey the couple's feelings for one another in a way that can be heartwarming, tender, poetic or even whimsical. If God is for us, who is against us? Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. holding hands and squinting. Now you will feel no cold, For each of you will be warmth to the other. “Even longer,” Pooh answered. and the blind woman's tea cup. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. You just…you don’t give up… If I could just, you know, take the whole world’s advice and move on and find someone else, that wouldn’t be love. What is only pieces, doled out here and there to this boy and that boy, that made me like pieces of them, is all jammed together in my husband. And you may not find any you’ll want to go down. It’s getting over disappointments and hurts, knowing that these are present in all relationships. from their snow-covered cottage, so they could walk out, For more wedding readings, don’t miss our pick of some of the most romantic wedding readings. higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) partly because of the fluoresent orange tulips around the birches I think a man and woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life with all its accidents is barely enough time for a man and woman to understand each other. If ever any beauty I did see, from our souls. It is never being too old to hold hands.It is remembering to say “I love you” at least once a day. Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands. tip-toeing on a rope, which is like luck; We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. To grow in love in friendship…, Because marriage is a discipline, We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. ... Friends "For so long I wondered if I would ever find my prince, my soul mate. I wanna be your setting lotion Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you. Are helping me to make We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity — in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern. “First of all, it’s a big responsibility,So think long and hard before deciding on love.On the other hand, love gives you a sense of security:when you’re walking down the street late at nightand you have a leash on loveain’t no one going to mess with you.Because crooks and muggers think love is unpredictable.Who knows what love could do in its own defense?On cold winter nights, love is warm.It lies between you and lives and breathesand makes funny noises.Love wakes you up all hours of the night with its needs.It needs to be fed so it will grow and stay healthy. You build up all these defences, you build up a whole suit of armour, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life … You give them a piece of you. May you look for things to praise, often say, “I love you!” and take no notice of small faults. Out of works “All of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten. “Oh, I don’t think I could guess that,” said Big Nutbrown Hare. Together they stand on the hill telling each other stories and feeling the warmth of the sun on their backs. And that, my friends, is how it is with love. One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. Pressed, it is not straitened. Why we adore it: This verse from American author Robert Fulgham is a wonderful wedding speech idea that’s easily reworked to suit you. And [now] I feel like I can finally begin...No measure of time with you will be long enough. So ancient is the desire of one another which is implanted in us, reuniting our original nature, making one of two, and healing the state of humankind. Behold, he who keeps watch over Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. He that minds a body and not a soul has not the better part of that relationship, and will consequently lack the noblest comfort of a married life. We were never lonely and never afraid when we were together. But we have to keep doing it, or else we're lost and love is dead and humanity should just pack it in. The possibilities are limitless. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. I will never rust We are weaned from our timidity A selection of intimate and touching wedding readings for you to choose from for your big day. I do not understand my own actions. Maybe sometimes take each other for granted. Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of troubles, attempts more than it is able, and does not plead impossibility, because it believes that it may and can do all things. just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or “Do I love you? I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. Did, till we loved? Let your gentleness be known to everyone. I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”, “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. let me be your ford cortina The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. It’s one of those wedding planning tasks that you can’t really rush. Love makes messes.Love leaves you little surprises here and there.Love needs lots of cleaning up after.Sometimes you just want to get love fixed.Sometimes you want to roll up a piece of newspaperand swat love on the nose,not so much to cause pain,just to let love know Don’t you ever do that again! May you succeed in all important ways with one another, and not fail in the little graces. If you’re having a civil wedding ceremony, you need to choose a wedding reading that doesn’t mention god and isn’t religious. Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. And when one of us meets our other half, we are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and would not be out of the other’s sight even for a moment. and begin reading. The book of love has music in it,In fact, that's where music comes from.Some of it is just transcendental,Some of it is just really dumb. Love is totally nonsensical. and the marsh birds suddenly in flight. —Carrie, "Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always. behind the eyes Love arrives Not only for what you are No! Congratulations! that drips from leaf to leaf So the Lord God cast a deep sleep on the man, and while he was asleep, he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. Some guests may have heard these oldies but goodies, while others will be hearing them for the first time. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. For after these vows, you shall say to the world, this—is my husband, this—is my wife. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. That would be...some other disposable thing that is not worth fighting for. You can’t logic your way into or out of it. hold your hair in deep devotion, Deep as the deep Atlantic ocean They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet. ancient histories of pain. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. It is the star to every wandering bark, The way one looks at distant things As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. I always try to take note of the ones I love, but I’m always slightly busy photographing the moment, and I always end up having to email my couple afterwards and ask them what their awesome reading was! It’s laughing with each other about silly little things and learning to discuss big things with care and tenderness. We know what the other wants without asking. “He is also overly fond of things. When he brought her to the man, the man said: “This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of ‘her man’ this one has been taken.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body. as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it I feel good with my husband: I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making and his jokes and stories and what he reads and how he likes fishing and walks and pigs and foxes and little animals and is honest and not vain or fame-crazy and how he shows his gladness for what I cook him and joy for when I make him something, a poem or a cake, and how he is troubled when I am unhappy and wants to do anything so I can fight out my soul-battles and grow up with courage and a philosophical ease. True friendship provides so many of the essentials for a happy life — it is the foundation on which to build an enduring relationship, it is the mortar which bonds us together in harmony, and it is the calm, warm protection we sometimes need when the world outside seems cold and chaotic. I thank your patience. It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstratinggratitude in thoughtful ways.It is not expecting the husband to wear a halo or the wife to have wings of an angel.It is not looking for perfection in each other. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived." Very bad love. But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? And with this ring, I ask you to be mine.” —Victor Van Dort, "You and me, we're in a club now. Ever. (Plus, … “You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. only a honey-thick stain Jesus said, ‘From the beginning of creation, “God made them male and female.” “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” So they are no longer two, but one flesh.