i'm getting married in september and we would like a poem or reading for my godfather to read out at our wedding but i can't find one that says it all! we are a hetro couple getting married at a local hotel so it's a civil ceremony so nothing relgious please. hailey x
2006-07-05 04:05:50 · 10 answers · asked by haileyhs 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
If you can't find a poem, the lyrics to your favourite song, spoken aloud, can work just as well. After all, a song is a poem with music.
2006-07-05 22:10:00 · answer #1 · answered by Emmersonne M 3 · 11⤊ 5⤋
A Shakespeare Sonnet! I recently heard one at a civil wedding ceremony. Beautiful!!!
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
William Shakespeare
2006-07-05 11:15:03 · answer #2 · answered by hystoriker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wrote this for my sister's civil wedding and it went down very well. Maybe you could mod it for your names (or send them to me and I'll do it)
(Otherwise try http://www.weddingguideuk.com/articles/wordsmusic/poems/lovepoems2a.asp)
Hope it all goes well for you both.
On the Wedding of Susan and Stuart
The starting block of any good marriage
Is a love that will strengthen and bloom
And lead two people from just being friends
On the road to become Bride and Groom
Love guides them along through good times and bad
Punctuated with laughter and kisses
To the point in the vows “til death us do part”
When they turn into Mr. and Mrs.
Then it helps them continue their journey together
Along the great highway of life
Secure in their caring and trust for each other
Content to be Husband and Wife
It is love that begins it and helps it to work
A love that will last through the years
And that’s what we find in these people before us
For Susan and Stuart, three cheers!
Hip Hip! (all) Hooray!
Hip Hip! (all) Hooray!
Hip Hip! (all) Hooray!
2006-07-05 11:26:05 · answer #3 · answered by Mikey_T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No poems for civil ceremony weddings. No frills just get to the chase and be done with it.
2006-07-05 11:09:39 · answer #4 · answered by parsonsel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
2006-07-05 19:26:59 · answer #5 · answered by blaydrunner007 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways..."
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
I think this is the most romantic poem ever... but if it doesn't suit have a look at John Keats, WB Yeats and more of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2006-07-05 11:13:20 · answer #6 · answered by Julie W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been to many weddings but i cant remember any poems
2006-07-05 11:08:13 · answer #7 · answered by Banana 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Wreck of the Hesperus"?
2006-07-05 11:11:44 · answer #8 · answered by Lick_My_Toad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shakespeare and Browning are usually popular choices. Just no Plath, please!
2006-07-05 11:09:57 · answer #9 · answered by Fed_UP_with_work. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm horny lets have sex
2006-07-05 11:21:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋