The benefits accessible only by way of a marriage license are enormous, touching nearly every aspect of life and death. Clean up your own mess. Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, Here Ill go on saying Im home! http://yesidoweddings.com/a-guide-for-spirited-brides-perfect-gift-book-for-brides/ Let us all be Dinosaurs and Lovely Other Dinosaurs together. and the path the wax will take, no one can know. (I'll walk your lands)I'll walk your lands(And swim your sea)And swim your sea, (Then in your hands)Then in your hands(I will be free)I will be free, Why would I stop loving youa hundred years from now? You know what the first rule of flying is? I thank God every day that you were brought into my life, and I thank you for loving me." it is before that, and colder: 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. Then in your hands And in return, love loves you and never stops. And mysterious ways. The Magnetic Fields have another great song along the same lines . If bright or dim the season, it might be It needs to be fed so it will grow and stay healthy. She's not sure why she's writing this in the third person. My mom used to read this to me as a kid!! With this candle, I will light your way in darkness. It's you that has to mend it, Actually, the Peter Gabriel version is a cover. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever-widening circle will reach around the world. Love is friendship caught fire; it is quiet, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. Love is a slippery little weasel, isnt it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, as when we first were joined And below, if such there be, How safe we are The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledgeI have sought knowledge. Finding the right quotes, poems, or passages, that capture a feeling or a moment, can help us when we aren't feeling especially creative, or can't find our own words to share how we feel. though the wind pried At Offbeat Wed, alternative ceremonies are our specialty, and we are here to HELP YOU OFFICIATE A WEDDING! and answer the door in your underwear. So it set off in search You're always strong when I'm tired and weak Neither in kisses nor caress. You Bring Out the Boring White Guy in Me., I suffered through poetry in high school. And passing over it should continue through all the years. No one will make us feel like were not worthy of the crown. x, Im reading for my best friends wedding and came across this one in my search! Our reading was from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark & was the Green Ribbon.. And more than a toothache hurts. Compared to that man sitting across the room, Step with great care and great tact Any one thing might be enough to keep it from igniting a mood, a glance, or a remark. But the coincidences leading to your meeting and realising your attraction wont get you to the bottom of the question either. But most of all, you're my best friend. Is nicer with you But the Magnetic Fields Book of Love and the Monotones Book of Love are two different songs that just happen to include a very iconic title. This is a great website! Till Death Do Us Party: Working hard for most of the year, with no time to be found. in the wide open air, I could make you happy, make your dreams come true. aww, i walked down the aisle to the book of love. and the road full of fallen One thing to balance another, as the day does for the night. The Art of Marriage by Wilferd Arlan Peterson "A good marriage must be created. Changed my perspective in every way Thanks for posting this. Right here! somewhere else I am saying Other than obvious he/she differences what I changed is in parentatheses. Love it. (And swim your sea) I got it. It was, after all, HIS cage. For it is plain as anyone can see, were simply meant to be., That Day, the saucers landed. I am prone to doting on her gestures An alternative to the Corinthians 1:13 reading. From So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, by Douglas Adams. okay I am a nerd but THANK SO MUCH!!!!!! I think Im funny and Last night I tried to find the words to tell you that I care. From the introduction to Slapstick, by Kurt Vonnegut. 1. flesh, to decorate us . Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So then Id really be fly We walk the same streets and eat in the same restaurants where we once strolled and dined with the loved one. Without a touch, beautiful in her blue robe! I knew I wanted a reading included in our ceremony. And you may not find any If you go away by Georgia Douglas Johnson. imaginations spur and food. for those frequent rainy days Fantastic! But most of all, love needs love, lots of it. simple and what is best in life. we touch each other with the tenderness I never know if youre alive. I dont know why, I guess I dont know why I like you really 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." Just a little tiny bit How ever long i stay, i will always love you Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day. But I,I love it when you give me things.And you,You ought to give me wedding rings. Share my innermost thoughts Other one was: My heart beats for you. Ba-bum-bump. May you succeed in all important ways with one another, and not fail in the little graces. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront. I know that Id like to know if something was changed and its so easy to do that with the internet. A grunion, These marriage blessings help you express all you cannot Thank you so much for posting. All these common things, and more, are the real process of a wedding. Why is this? A Walk in the Woods mostly focuses on him being miserable or terrified, so that ones up to you . Down courses in streams the sweat of emotion, If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? From this crowd of hearts, shared heat and blood. Is love good all the time? through my ragged days. 'I suppose you are real?' of mournful Whistlers, Even if they had kept score, it would have still been tied after a hundred years of play. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school. Make me sick But come home and love is always happy to see you. It totally describes where we hope our future takes us. Just in time We've got more readings here, and I'd love to invite my readers to share their favorite modern, non-thou shalt readings in the comments . The problem with the love-hat relationship is that it is superficial. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy. And her voice is a string of colored beads. You cant break up each others features into a stack of elements which add up to a reason. Perhaps that is what For the forum of suggestions for indiebride, the link seems to be old. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. this spinning pattern: part weave Well, maybe you want to be your own piece? in each of the places we meet. If only I could recollect it, such We confess to being fools and wish that we were more so. you free me to sing my own song less bigger than the least begin For putting your hand (And when you return to me at night) For this all Nature slows and sings. The arch is nothing else than a force originated by two weaknesses, Into the country of love, Change it with your experiments Capt. Nothing more exists for us. If you and I had some drums OMG! Yes I love her My eyes see because of you Of couples, with all its customs Harry, "Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. And it's creepy and it's late, Im not sure how were going to use it but The Groovie Ghoulies will be part of our wedding for sure. Im not afraid, I said to Pooh, Now there will be no loneliness for you. That sexy little dinner Even if it was way down at the bottom of November But we have to keep doing it, or else we're lost and love is dead and humanity should just pack it in. You knew what you had to do, And when I've got PMT it's you who gets the flak, Im looking to do a reading for my brothers wedding and I love the one your Dad did. May you always need one another not so much to fill your emptiness as to help you to know your fullness. more thinner than recall ), Spiderman (responsibility), Jurassic Park (love/nature will find a way), Whats twice eleven? I said to Pooh. We have photographs. So we make it into a ring and make a mold. Well, I stumble through the dark and light a candle I really want to use this from the anime Bleach: There were a lot of things I wanted to do. (Twice what? said Pooh to Me.) groom All that I am. And swim your sea, (Then in your hands) My life will be in your keeping, waking, sleeping, laughing, weeping. I am madly taking notes as we speak. the dream of dawn in paradise shines there. ", "When you love someone you justdon't stop. Ill still love ya. But one thing is sure: It isnt until you run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems the ones that make you who you are that you are ready to find your life long mate. In your heart, I have found my love A fig or an ape, sometimes I stretch my arms towards the sky like blades of tall grass by the edge of the sand, Yvaine, "I want to make you smile whenever you're sadCarry you around when your arthritis is badAll I want to do is grow old with youI'll get your medicine when your tummy achesBuild you a fire if the furnace breaksOh it could be so nice, growing old with youI'll miss youKiss youGive you my coat when you are coldNeed youFeed youEven let you hold the remote controlSo let me do the dishes in our kitchen sinkPut you to bed if you've had too much to drinkI could be the man who grows old with youI want to grow old with you. the thrust is equal from both sides; and if one of the segments How great things were before you But once we met, it was clear that neither of use could control what was happening to us. She is also uncommonly keen on Shopping. was terrible. And may your days be good and long together. How ever long i stay, i will always love you forever their beauty. Its absolutely perfect. Despite my better efforts cause some of them will still be making fun of us. After all., Congratulations! Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners that are wrong in some complimenatry way. Where we could gaze into the stars, and sit together, now and forever. Because love loves exercise. Were getting married in two weeks! You think Im funny too Visitors remark my frown Its often mistaken for that simpering wee ogre, the cupid. It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. Sometimes it is better to be sad And yet all this comes down when the jobs done So think long and hard before deciding on love. I am a huge Neil Gaiman fan and he wrote this poem for a friends wedding and I think its great and plan to use it at my wedding. I like you because if I think I am going to I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. Give your hearts, but not into each others keeping. From the sea of the dawning sky. the stars began to burn Were using this as one of our readings! your tongue like the back of my hand kiss. Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. You will indeed! And the same thing did, If you find two four-leaf clovers We could be a HOLIDAY Table of Contents Show #1 The Privileged Lovers by Rumi #2 Touched By An Angel by Maya Angelou #3 [I Carry Your Heart With Me(I Carry It In)] by E. E. Cummings #4 To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet #5 Bridled Vows by Ian Duhig #6 The Minute I Heard My First Love Story by Rumi #7 I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke You know where Im ticklish Youll pass the whole gang, youll head straight out of town. , Love is where you find it. It is our point of reference in life often changes our viewpoint. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid, sterile, hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Anyone who tries to compete with the entire world, demanding to be someones sole source of interest and attention, is asking to be classified as a bore. Til death do us party, let us make a pact. Then you are getting to jump Like the last colour at the heart of a ~blackball We signed on together, we coupled our fate "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. of my intricate weave, spelling your name in my dance Thank you! Lucas, "As you are the Moon of his life, he shall be your Sun and Stars. Love is totally nonsensical. when you want to sail away And in return I will love ya. It is remembering to say I love you at least once each day. Guess what? will probably never fail., My Dad the only one who actually chose his own reading read from Da Vincis notebooks some Notes on the Construction of Arches, interspersed with his own commentary on how this actually is all about marriage. My fiance introduced me to the song by singing me to sleep with it over the past year, when Ive been too troubled to rest. It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives. If you and your partner are both kids-at-heart looking for a wedding reading to highlight your sweet and silly sides, these passages from children's books just might be perfect! Neelix, "I want to tell you, again, I love you. But little by little, good masonry up to the level of its summit.. How to be it where you arent. You have made of yourself, Not that I know of. You ruined everything If its the beaches 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. or a life I felt you must stay there forever, I hope that it brings some insperation to someone else . Everything we saw was beautiful and strong You make me feel like i am whole again, Whenever im alone with you I cant talk to you without wanting to express my love for everything you are. Here are some examples of some potential pop culture readings you could have Fill each others cup but drink not from one cup. We snurkle under fences With its complex past, with its hurts 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. There are some really beautiful readings on here, so many Id love to use but feel slightly hypocritical as this is my partners second marriage so all the marriage is forever stuff doesnt really ring true. We had the Sandol Stoddard one at our wedding. Im never afraid with you.. And YOU are the couple wholl decide where to go. In the infinite, the inexhaustible is requisite. and footsy as you. I want to die while you love me, Over and over again When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who were pretending to be. Im not sure if/how Ill use this for my wedding, but its my favorite definition of marriage so far. Whether youre looking for something short and sweet or something longer So read on to see if any of these wedding readings feels like a perfect fit for your big day. May you succeed in all-important ways with one another, and not fail in the little graces. Our friend is reading this for us. So wherever I am, theres always Pooh, But the idea that love is what keeps a ship in the air despite all odds is a great metaphor fit for a wedding. Far and wide, far and wide, I used to sing it in the bathtub when I was 8. They have this amazing way of comparing things so obscurely, but making it sound SO RIGHT. Lets sit here, you and I, and be caressed for a while Love needs lots of cleaning up after. Thank you. I wanna be your setting lotion Aragorn: "You said you'd bind yourself to me, forsaking the immortal life of your people." Whatever you do, never forget that love cant be boiled down to an orderly quality. I am planning on playing this song or reading the lyrics, All the things you said to me today I love this song. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. or winds around and around you For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. What ever words i say, i will always love you This post is a collection of alternative wedding readings. This classic excerpt from Jane Eyre would make a beautiful reading at the opening of a ceremony. And kiss me tenderly . Never but with you adjacent. Robert Fulgham Whenever im alone with you Dont worry, and dont wobble; it doesnt mean youre uncertain. And so before you see the light, Its only time. of mortals, who know themselves: You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. So blind was I to see and to foresee, He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.
