Apr 5, 2011

Non-Traditional Wedding Readings #2

Here are a new list of more Wedding Readings for your Non-Traditional Wedding Readings.

"Union" by Robert Fulghum

"The Beauty of Love" by Anon

"You can give without loving" by Victor Hugo, from Les Miserables

"To my bride" by Steven Reiser

"Our great adventure" by Pamela Dugdale

"Married love" by Kuan Tao-Sheng

"True Love" by Author unknown

"These I can promise" by Anon

"On Your Wedding Day" by Anon

"Doves Poem" by Author unknown

"A Good Wedding Cake" by Author unknown

"Marriage" by Anon

"If Thou Must Love Me" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"The Bargain" by Sir Philip Sidney

"Love and Friendship" by Emily Bronte

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Wedding Quote: Ogden Nash

Every Wedding needs inspiration. Here are a few lovely wedding quotes that you could use to add something to your Wedding invitation, use to start are work into your Wedding Vows. They could be place on tables at your Reception and worked into your Wedding Reception centerpieces.

Ogden Nash (The Perfect Husband)

"He tells you when you've got on too much lipstick
And helps you with your girdle when your hips stick"


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Wedding Quote: Mrs Patrick Campbell

Every Wedding needs inspiration. Here are a few lovely wedding quotes that you could use to add something to your Wedding invitation, use to start are work into your Wedding Vows. They could be place on tables at your Reception and worked into your Wedding Reception centerpieces.

Attributed to Mrs Patrick Campbell

"Marriage is the result of the longing for the deep peace of the double bed after the hurly burly of the chaise longue"


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Wedding Quote: Jane Austen

Every Wedding needs inspiration. Here are a few lovely wedding quotes that you could use to add something to your Wedding invitation, use to start are work into your Wedding Vows. They could be place on tables at your Reception and worked into your Wedding Reception centerpieces.

Jane Austen
from Pride and Prejudice

"A lady's imagination is very rapid;
it jumps from admiration to love,
from love to matrimony, in a moment"


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Wedding Quote: Samuel Pepys

Every Wedding needs inspiration. Here are a few lovely wedding quotes that you could use to add something to your Wedding invitation, use to start are work into your Wedding Vows. They could be place on tables at your Reception and worked into your Wedding Reception centerpieces.

Samuel Pepys

"Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition!"


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Wedding Quote: Socrates

Every Wedding needs inspiration. Here are a few lovely wedding quotes that you could use to add something to your Wedding invitation, use to start are work into your Wedding Vows. They could be place on tables at your Reception and worked into your Wedding Reception centerpieces.

Socrates

"My advice to you is to get married.
If you find a good wife, you'll be happy.
If not, you'll become a philosopher."


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Wedding Quote: Wilde

Every Wedding needs inspiration. Here are a few lovely wedding quotes that you could use to add something to your Wedding invitation, use to start are work into your Wedding Vows. They could be place on tables at your Reception and worked into your Wedding Reception centerpieces.

Oscar Wilde
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.



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Wedding Quote: Anon

Every Wedding needs inspiration. Here are a few lovely wedding quotes that you could use to add something to your Wedding invitation, use to start are work into your Wedding Vows. They could be place on tables at your Reception and worked into your Wedding Reception centerpieces.

Anon
"Marriages are made in heaven -
but then so are thunder, lightning, tornados and hail"


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Wedding Quote: Anonymous

Every Wedding needs inspiration. Here are a few lovely wedding quotes that you could use to add something to your Wedding invitation, use to start are work into your Wedding Vows. They could be place on tables at your Reception and worked into your Wedding Reception centerpieces.

Anonymous but not forgotten

May your hands be forever clasped in friendship

And your hearts forever joined in love

Let those love now, who never loved before

Let those who always loved, now love the more

Love is like a butterfly
Hold it too tight and it will crush

Hold it too loose and it will fly

To the world you might be one person,

But to one person you might be the world

The cure for love is marriage and the cure for marriage is love again

Let those love now who never loved before

Let those who always loved, now love the more

A smile is the light in the window of your face that shows that your heart is home.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same

Love is the symbol of eternity

It wipes out all sense of time

Destroying all memory of a beginning

And all fear of an end


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Wedding Quote: Proverb

Every Wedding needs inspiration. Here are a few lovely wedding quotes that you could use to add something to your Wedding invitation, use to start are work into your Wedding Vows. They could be place on tables at your Reception and worked into your Wedding Reception centerpieces.

Chinese Proverb

"No road is long with good company"

Turkish Proverb

"When two spiders unite they can tie up a lion"

Ethiopian proverb

"Shared joy is a double joy. Shared sorrow is half a sorrow."

Swedish proverb

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and just be my friend"

Irish proverb

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams"

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Wedding Quote: Plato

Every Wedding needs inspiration. Here are a few lovely wedding quotes that you could use to add something to your Wedding invitation, use to start are work into your Wedding Vows. They could be place on tables at your Reception and worked into your Wedding Reception centerpieces.

Plato

"The gold of one's heart is far more precious than the gold of one's purse"

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Wedding Quote:Aristotle

Aristotle

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete,
until another heart whispers back.
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet"

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Wedding Quote: Confucius

Confucius

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies"

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Wedding Quote: JB Yeats

JB Yeats

"Immature love says 'I love you because I need you'
Mature love says 'I need you because I love you'"

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Mark Twain Quote

Mark Twain

"I think a man and woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life with all its accidents is barely enough time for a man and woman to understand each other. And... to understand is to love."

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than the ones that you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

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Wedding Quotes of Love

Every Wedding needs inspiration. Here are a few lovely wedding quotes that you could use to add something to your Wedding invitation, use to start are work into your Wedding Vows. They could be place on tables at your Reception and worked into your Wedding Reception centerpieces.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

JB Yeats

Confucius

Aristotle

Plato

Chinese Proverb

Turkish proverb

Ethiopian proverb

Swedish proverb

Irish proverb

Anonymous but not forgotten

Anon

Oscar Wilde

Socrates

Samuel Pepys

Jane Austen

Attributed to Mrs Patrick Campbell

Ogden Nash (The Perfect Husband)

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The Beauty of Love

"The Beauty of Love"
by Anon

The question is asked: “Is there anything more beautiful in life than a young couple clasping hands and pure hearts in the path of marriage? Can there be anything more beautiful than young love?” And the answer is given: “Yes, there is a more beautiful thing.

"It is the spectacle of an old man and an old woman finishing their journey together on that path. Their hands are gnarled but still clasped; their faces are seamed but still radiant; their hearts are physically bowed and tired but still strong with love and devotion. Yes, there is a more beautiful thing than young love. Old love.”

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You can give without loving

"You can give without loving"
by Victor Hugo, from Les Miserables

You can give without loving but you can never love without giving.

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be truly alone again. And great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. And even loved in spite of ourselves.



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To my bride

"To my bride"
by Steven Reiser

To my bride, I give you my heart

Sharing love each day, from the very start.

To my bride, I give you my kiss

Filling each day with joy and bliss.

To my bride I give you my being

To love, to play, to work and to sing

To my bride I give you my mind

Learning each day to be more kind.

To my bride I give you my soul

Growing together to be more whole.

To my bride I give you my life

Rejoicing each day that you are my wife.

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Our great adventure

"Our great adventure"
by Pamela Dugdale

We are today still dizzy with the astonishment of love.

We are surrounded by affection – by smiles and kindliness,
by flowers and music and gifts and celebration.

Yet they enclose a silence
where we are close with one another.

My eyes see only you.

I hear nothing but the words we speak to one another

This is the day we start our life together.

This is our new beginning

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Married love

"Married love"
by Kuan Tao-Sheng

You and I

Have so much love

That it burns like a fire

In which we bake a lump of clay

Moulded into a figure of you

And a figure of me

Then we take both of them

And break them into pieces

And mix the pieces with water

And mould again a figure of you

And a figure of me

I am in your clay

You are in my clay

In life we share a single quilt

In death we will share one coffin

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True Love

"True Love"
by Author unknown

True love is a sacred flame

That burns eternally

And none can dim its special glow

Or change its destiny

True love speaks in tender tones

And hears with gentle ear

True love gives with open heart

And true love conquers fear

True love makes no harsh demands

It neither rules nor binds

And true love holds with gentle hands

The heart that it entwines

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These I can promise

"These I can promise"
by Anon

I cannot promise you a lifetime of sunshine

I cannot promise riches, wealth or gold

I cannot promise you an easy pathway

That leads away from change or growing old

But I can promise all my heart's devotion

A smile to chase away your tears of sorrow

A love that's ever true and ever growing

A hand to hold in yours through each tomorrow.


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On Your Wedding Day

"On Your Wedding Day"
by Anon

Today is a day you will always remember

The greatest in anyone's life

You'll start off the day just two people in love

And end it as husband and wife.

It's a brand new beginning, the start of a journey

With moments to cherish and treasure

And although they'll be times when you both disagree

These will surely be outweighed by pleasure

You'll have heard many words of advice in the past

When the secrets of marriage were spoken

But you know that the answers lie hidden inside

Where the bond of true love lies unbroken

So live happy forever as lovers and friends

It's the dawn of a new life for you

As you stand there together with love in your eyes

From the moment you whisper ‘I do'

And with luck all your hopes and your dreams can be real

May success find its way to your hearts

Tomorrow can bring you the greatest of joys

But today is the day it all starts



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Doves Poem

"Doves Poem"
by Author unknown

Two doves meeting in the sky

Two loves hand in hand, eye to eye

Two parts of a loving whole

Two hearts and a single soul

Two stars shining big and bright

Two fires bringing warmth and light

Two songs played in perfect tune

Two flowers growing into bloom

Two doves gliding in the air

Two loves free without a care

Two parts of a loving whole

Two hearts and a single soul

Two dreams found before too late

Two lives together bound by fate

Two people cling to one another

Two people in love with each other

Two doves, can you see them soar?

Two loves – who could ask for more?

Two parts of a loving whole

Two hearts and a single soul


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A Good Wedding Cake

"A Good Wedding Cake"
by Author unknown

4lb of love
1/2lb of sweet temper
1lb of butter of youth
1lb of blindness of faults
1lb of pounded wit
1lb of good humour
2lbs of sweet argument
1 pint of rippling laughter
1 wine glass of common sense
A dash of modesty

Put the love, good looks and a sweet temper into a well-furnished house. Beat the butter of youth into a cream and mix well together with the blindness of faults. Stir the pounded wit and good humour into the sweet argument, then add the rippling laughter and common sense. Work the whole together until everything is well mixed and bake gently for ever.



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Marriage

"Marriage"
by Anon

A marriage is a promise

That two hearts gladly make

A promise to be tender

To help, to give and take

A marriage is a promise

To be kind and understanding

To be thoughtful and considerate

Fair and undemanding

A marriage is a promise

To share one life together

A love-filled promise meant to be
Kept lovingly forever



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If Thou Must Love Me

"If Thou Must Love Me"
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If thou must love me, let it be for naught

Except for love's sake only. Do not say
“I love her for her smile...her look...
her way of speaking gently -for a trick of thought

That falls in well with mine and certes bought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day.”

For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed,
or changed for thee – and love so wrought may be unwrought so.



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The Bargain

"The Bargain"
by Sir Philip Sidney

My true love hath my heart, and I have his,

By just exchange one for another given:

I hold his dear and mine he cannot miss,

There never was a better bargain driven:

My true love hath my heart, and I have his.

His heart in me keeps him and me in one,

My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides:

He loves my heart, for once it was his own.

I cherish his because in me it bides:

My true love hath my heart, and I have his


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Love and Friendship

"Love and Friendship"
by Emily Bronte

Love is like the wild rose-briar

Friendship like the holly tree

The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms

But which will bloom most constantly?

The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,

Its summer blossoms scent the air

Yet wait till winter comes again

And who will call the wild-briar fair?

Then, scorn the silly rose-wreath now

And deck with thee the holly's sheen,

Then when December blights thy brow

He still may leave thy garland green.


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Union

"Union"
by Robert Fulghum

You have known each other from the first glance of acquaintance to this point of commitment. At some point, you decided to marry. From that moment of yes, to this moment of yes, indeed, you have been making commitments in an informal way. All of those conversations that were held in a car, or over a meal, or during long walks – all those conversations that began with, “When we’re married”, and continued with “I will” and “you will” and “we will” – all those late night talks that included “someday” and “somehow” and “maybe” – and all those promises that are unspoken matters of the heart. All these common things, and more, are the real process of a wedding.

The symbolic vows that you are about to make are a way of saying to one another, “You know all those things that we’ve promised, and hoped, and dreamed – well, I meant it all, every word.”

Look at one another and remember this moment in time. Before this moment you have been many things to one another – acquaintance, friend, companion, lover, dancing partner, even teacher, for you have learned much from one another these past few years. Shortly you shall say a few words that will take you across a threshold of life, and things between you will never quite be the same.

For after today you shall say to the world
–
This is my husband. This is my wife.



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"The Art Of Marriage"


This is so sweet I just had to share it...It is a reading from Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward's Wedding Ceremony. I am such a big fan of sweet readings. In this day and age of secular and non-traditional wedding readings this Wedding Reading could be perfect for your 2011 wedding reading.


"The Art Of Marriage"
by Wilferd A. Peterson

Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens.
A good marriage must be created.
In the art of marriage the little things are the big things...

It is never being too old to hold hands.

It is remembering to say "I love you" at least once a day.

It is never going to sleep angry.

It is at no time taking the other for granted; the courtship should not end with the honeymoon, it should continue through all the years.

It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives.

It is standing together facing the world.

It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family.

It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude of duty or sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy.

It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways.

It is not looking for perfection in each other.

It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a sense of humour.

It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.

It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow.

It is finding room for the things of the spirit.

It is a common search for the good and the beautiful.

It is establishing a relationship in which the independence is equal, dependence is mutual and the obligation is reciprocal.

It is not only marrying the right partner, it is being the right partner.

It is discovering what marriage can be, at its best.


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