Wedding Day Poems

Does anybody have some good wedding readings?

My sister is getting married in a couple of weeks and I need some really nice wedding readings for the day. Nothing to cheesy and lovee and not the Apache ceremony that everyone seems to have. Any suggestions? for your info I have already been to the library and the internet. I was hoping someone might have made a reading at a nother wedding which they thought was good. Thanks

Public Comments

1. The Last Rites
2. Go on the internet and type in what you are looking for!
3. I once read "If music be the food of love" at a friend's wedding. Speech from twelfth night.
4. Use Search or go to the library (it's the big building with windows and shelves full of books that you borrow LOL) and look up the old poets. Not the poets with sappy love poems that rhyme. The poems that make you think and take you inside of a beautiful story of love. Prose, too.
5. How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning There's a really cute speech from Sex & the City's 3rd season that starts out "His hello was the end to her endings. Her smile was their first step down the aisle." I love this one too: i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) --E.E. Cummings
6. If she is being married in a church usually the minister, priest, vicar actually can provide you with a book to choose a reading from a large selection. If it is not a religious ceremony just look for passages in appropriate books.
7. Personally, I think that a reading from the Corinthians is classic. Although, I did watch Wedding Crashers and apparently it is used quite often. I guess some things are just classic. I hope this helps. Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. (NRSV, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8)
8. You've been my sister for many years we've laughed together and shed some tears, we've had harsh words and pulled some hair, but against the world we're a terrific pair. Our times together have been too few, just want to say,i love you.