Getting married soon and we're struggling to think of good readings for the civil ceremony. Could be poems, song lyrics, quotes etc. Probably having three readings so wouldn't mind a mix of traditional and more modern.
2006-11-01 22:48:59 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
Hi - when I got married in Aug, I had my little sister read 'The Blessing of the Apaches', which Ive pasted below. Hope you like it xx
Blessing of the Apaches
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.
Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you. May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through all the years,
May happiness be your companion and your days together be good and long upon the earth.
"Treat yourselves and each other with respect, and remind yourselves often of what brought you together.
Give the highest priority to the tenderness, gentleness and kindness that your connection deserves.
When frustration, difficult and fear assail your relationship - as they threaten all relationships at one time or another - remember to focus on what is right between you, not only the part which seems wrong.
In this way, you can ride out the storms when clouds hide the face of the sun in your lives - remembering that even if you lose sight of it for a moment, the sun is still there.
And if each of you takes responsibility for the quality of your life together, it will be marked by abundance and delight."
2006-11-02 00:16:29 · answer #1 · answered by Secret Squirrel 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My husband and I had a Christian ceremony, but he really wanted to include a secular reading since he isn't really religious at all (both our families are VERY religious though). So we had one bible reading and then a "poem" that my husband found. He sent me the reading a few months before the wedding, and I cried when I read it. It is so beautiful, and VERY true of what we both feel a REAL relationship is. It was the perfect reading for our wedding, to tell all of our family how we truly feel about each other, our relationship and our future. The reading went over VERY well. Everyone on his side of the family was emailing for weeks after to get information on what it was from, they all loved it. Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love, have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two. It's from the novel "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", it's not really a poem, but it is versed very much like one. You will get rave reviews too! Best Wishes!
2016-03-19 02:45:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I found a list of popular readings and passages for civil wedding ceremonies on Elegala.com. The useful list is divided into passages from 1) Poetry 2) Cultural Heritage 3) Movies and 4) Songs. (the link to the list is below)
Or - this is the one I used for my wedding ceremony - it's called "Love as a Challenge" by Rainer Rilke
"For one human being to love another human being; this is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us – the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. Loving at first does not mean merger, surrender and uniting with another person. Love is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in ourselves, to become world in ourselves for the sake of another person. Love is a great, demanding claim on us, something that chooses us and calls us to vast distances."
2006-11-02 03:19:06 · answer #3 · answered by corann 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have time to go on my site at: Facebox.com/Wifey_NettaLynn
You will find there the vows that my husband & I wrote and read to each other in our wedding and there you will find a Poem under the name of "Beautiful is our love" that is a poem that my husband wrote and was read also in our wedding I do have some others that you may or may not like but, we didn't want our wedding to be like everyones else so we decided to write some things for our wedding and it was really nice there was not a dry eye in the house, I promise if you do not like anything there if you ask I maybe can send you some other things that you may want to think about........Good Luck and Best Wishes
2006-11-02 00:42:36 · answer #4 · answered by Lil Angel 68 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello. Congratulations. You could try looking on one of the wedding sites. Try this link to You And Your Wedding http://www.youandyourwedding.co.uk/index.php/v1/Readings_for_civil_wedding_ceremonies which has some lovely suggestions for civil ceremony readings. Or you could have a look at http://www.weddingguide.co.uk/articles/wordsmusic/poems/lovepoems2a.asp or www.daisygoodwin.co.uk where the poem doctor section will prescribe a poem to suit your mood and needs...
Hope these help.
2006-11-01 23:07:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Though not a Church ceremony there's no reason why you can't include a passage from the Bible. The most commonly used one is about love from Paul's 1st. letter to the people of Corinth. It is in Chapter 13, verses 1 - 13 (or you can omit some verses). If you are a Christian you may also wish to use verses 7 - 12 about love in chapter 4 of the 1st. of John's three letters.
2006-11-01 23:08:54 · answer #6 · answered by Malcolm 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Look on confetti.co.uk for everything to do with weddings including readings and poems for all types of services.
hope this helps and have a great wedding
2006-11-01 23:01:32 · answer #7 · answered by lola 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you go to the registry office to plan your ceremony they will give you a book with readings in, or google, 'wedding readings', thats where i got mine from. if you want a light hearted one, pam ayres do some funny ones. i had 1 funny one, pam ayres, and a sentimental one, but remember it cannot be religious in any way.
the registrar will want to know beforehand what you are having.
2006-11-02 10:07:57 · answer #8 · answered by phooey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In The Prophet by Khalil Gibran. My favorite is On Friendship. I think it is very appropriate and it's not religious nor would it insult anyone who was.
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2014-08-10 18:22:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋