I have seen it in wedding books but when i look on websites it is listed as an irish parting. I do not want to use it at me wedding if the irish think of it as a funeral reading!!!!HELP
2006-11-19 12:47:23 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
It's for weddings and such...not funerals.
2006-11-19 13:51:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my lifetime or this year? Not sure about lifetime because there is too many to count. But the average amount of funerals I go to a year is 3 and for weddings its 1 maybe 2. This year alone though I've been to 8 funerals and 2 weddings.
2016-03-29 02:05:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an old Irish blessing. It has been used at weddings for years. I've NEVER heard it at a funeral.
"May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your face, may the rain fall soft upon your fields, and, until we meet again, may the Lord hold you in the palm of his hand."
2006-11-19 12:58:03 · answer #3 · answered by kidd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A choir I was part of performed it at the funeral of a former governor of our state.
It is a parting song, but also a song of well-wishes. I think it would be ok for the end of the wedding.
Congrats on the wedding.
2006-11-19 12:53:25 · answer #4 · answered by N 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but, as a joke we gave my brother in law a whiskey decanter set that said something like that only it said something like "and may the wind at your back always be your own" He loved it We had it silk screened on there.
2006-11-19 13:04:55 · answer #5 · answered by Midge 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it is NOT for funerals. it is for anyone embarking on a journey. marriage or otherwise, but not death.
at funerals you speak of the past, not the future.
( "He was a grand old guy. heres to him!" gulp gulp gulp.)
2006-11-19 12:50:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋