too heavy as in Shakespeare, and a reasonable length - not a blink and you'll miss it length, but not rambling on either. Any suggestions at all please?
2007-07-22 07:48:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
Jen - It's not MY wedding. I've been asked to do a reading and perhaps come up with some suggestions.
Sarah - I'M NOT GETTING MARRIED! I've been married 31 years! It's not that its not a religious ceremony - I'm needing a romantic reading, because someone else is doing a religious reading!!!! I'm being very precise in what I'm looking for here, I dont need your sarcasm thank you, useless answerer!
2007-07-22 08:45:31 · update #1
Can I please make the point that it is an additional reading to a religious one - nothing to do glamour etc. as Fire Lily states. My niece has asked me to do a romantic reading..... what more can I say? I'm doing as asked and for a particular reason. Give me a break!
2007-07-22 10:40:45 · update #2
Just to clarify - for those who haven't yet grasped the point- it is a religious CofE ceremony. Lovely hymns,vicar doing his bit, religious reading, prayers AND ONE ROMANTIC BLOODY READING!!!!! Mine! Got it yet? My niece has not turned into a heathen overnight!
2007-07-22 10:45:16 · update #3
Marriage Joins Two People In The Circle Of Its Love
Edmund O'Neill (b. 1929)
Marriage is a commitment to life, the best that two people can find and bring out in each other. It offers opportunities for sharing and growth that no other relationship can equal. It is a physical and an emotional joining that is promised for a lifetime.
Within the circle of its love, marriage encompasses all of life's most important relationships. A wife and a husband are each other's best friend, confidant, lover, teacher, listener, and critic. And there may come times when one partner is heartbroken or ailing, and the love of the other may resemble the tender caring of a parent or child.
Marriage deepens and enriches every facet of life. Happiness is fuller, memories are fresher, commitment is stronger, even anger is felt more strongly, and passes away more quickly.
Marriage understands and forgives the mistakes life is unable to avoid. It encourages and nurtures new life, new experiences, new ways of expressing a love that is deeper than life.
When two people pledge their love and care for each other in marriage, they create a spirit unique unto themselves which binds them closer than any spoken or written words. Marriage is a promise, a potential made in the hearts of two people who love
each other and takes a lifetime to fulfill.
2007-07-22 07:55:04 · answer #1 · answered by heatherfalcone@sbcglobal.net 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hope this is what you're looking for. Here are two different readings. They're from a book by Mercedes Lackey.
This bond, this joining, is not meant to be a fetter. A joining is a partnership, not two people becoming one. Two minds cannot fuse, two souls cannot merge, two hearts cannot keep to the same time. If two are foolish enough to try this, one must overwhelm the other, and that is not love, nor is it compassion, nor responsibility. You are two who choose to walk the same path, to bridge the differences between you with love. You must remember and respect those differences and learn to understand them, for they are part of what made you come to love in the first place. Love is patient, love is willing to compromise—love is willing to admit it is wrong. There will be hard times; you must face them as bound warriors do, side by side, not using the weapon of your knowledge to tear at each other. There will be sadness as well as joy, and must support one another through the grief and sorrow. There will be pain—but pain shared is pain halved, as joy shared is joy doubled, and you each must sacrifice your own comfort to share the pain of the other. And yet, you must do all this and manage to keep each other from wrong actions, for a joining means that you also pledge to help one another at all times. You must lead each other by example. Guide and be willing to be guided. Being joined does not mean that you accept what is truly wrong, being joined means that you must strive that you both remain in the light and the right. You must not pledge yourselves thinking that there will be no strife between you. That is fantasy, for you are two and not one, and there will inevitably come conflict that it will be up to you to resolve. You must not pledge yourselves thinking that all will be well from this moment on. That is a dream, and dreamers must eventually wake. You must come to this joining fully ready, fully committed, and fully respectful of each other.
Now you will no longer fear the storm, for you find shelter in each other.
Now the winter cannot harm you, for you warm each other with love.
Now when strength fails, you will be the wind to each other’s wings.
Now the darkness holds no danger, for you will be the light to each other’s path.
Now you will defy despair, for you will bring hope to each other’s heart.
Now there will be no more loneliness, for there will always be a hand reaching out to aid you when all seems darkest.
Where there were two paths, now there is one.
May your days together be long upon the earth, and each day blessed with joy in each other.
2007-07-22 09:52:39 · answer #2 · answered by maigen_obx 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Try looking in a poetry book, there are a few about with lovely romantic poems and would make an ideal reading at a wedding, i think its a lovely idea, best of luck with your reading.
2007-07-22 19:06:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont think shakespears too heavy! but anyway,
I dont know the title or who made up the verse but I do know its part of a longer quote' so try googleing it, it starts off
"No man is an Island...."
Its a really poetic one and is meaningful too, its all about how people need each other to get through life and how essential others are to us.
2007-07-22 07:53:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A poem might be nice =) Here's one I really like.
i carry your heart with me
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
2007-07-22 08:03:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try "The hunting of the Snark."There are certainly parts both amusing and romantic....if a little absurd.
2007-07-22 09:45:45 · answer #6 · answered by harryhotun 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Wedding at Cannan---in the christain bible.. It is not religious and it is a wonderful story...
2007-07-22 07:56:29 · answer #7 · answered by Gerald 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why get married in a church if you want a non-religious ceremony?
2007-07-22 08:16:11 · answer #8 · answered by Sarah C 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I am sure that if you get married in church it is religious, unless you are just doing it for glamour.
2007-07-22 10:09:00 · answer #9 · answered by Rebz 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
http://www.todays-weddings.com/planning/readings.html
So you skip the religious ones at the top, and move straight down to the secular ones.
2007-07-22 07:52:08 · answer #10 · answered by Suz123 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋