Wedding Ceremony Readings

A wedding ceremony is a very important event for each bride. In some countries, the bride and the groom select for their wedding ceremony some wedding readings which express better the reason they decided to get married. Some brides use to write their own wedding readings in order to impress with a creative text. It is very important to have a beautiful wedding reading because it can be memorable to your guest and even to you. I consider wedding reading a beautiful act of courage.

But, there are many couples that choose classic and traditional wedding readings, wedding readings from novels and literature, love poetry for wedding readings, unique and unusual wedding readings, wedding readings from the Bible, or wedding readings from Shakespeare. In order to select the most appropriate wedding reading to you, I will give some examples from some categories.

So in classic wedding readings make part the following titles: “Sonnet from the Portuguese” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “An excerpt from The Prophet” by Khalil Gabran, “My Luve” by Robert Burns, “From the Song of Solomon”, King James Bible version, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe, “Wedding Prayer” by Robert Lewis Stevenson, “Song of the Open Road” by Walt Whitman, “Sonnets from the Portuguese, XIV” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “An Irish Wedding Blessing”, “A Dedication to My Wife”, by T.S. Eliot, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet, “The Bargain” by Sir Philip Sidney, “Scottish Wedding Prayer” and “Sudden Light” by Dante Rosetti.

If you prefer to have a wedding reading from books and novels, you can choose an excerpt from Jazz by Toni Morrison, from “The Veveteen Rabbit” by Margery Williams, from “The Irrational Season” by Madeleine L`Engle, from “Gift From The Sea” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, or an excerpt from “A Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemingway.

The best wedding readings are the romantic ones because through romance you can express your love and your opinion about marriage. Poetry is always preferred by very romantic brides. So, I will suggest you some good poetry: “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron, “Roads Go Ever On” by J.R.R Tolkien, “To Be One With Each Other”, by George Eliot, “A White Rose”, by JB O`Reilly, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet, “Love Is A Great Thing” by Thomas Kempis, or “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” by Emily Dickenson.

Also, there are many brides crazy about Shakespeare and choosing a Shakespeare Wedding Reading is amazing and a very inspired idea. Why? Shakespeare has some beautiful sonnets which express a “colorful” and different love. The best choices are: Sonnet 116, Sonnet 18, an excerpt from “Love`s Labours Lost”, “Sonnet 29”, and some excerpts from Hamlet. Remember that words must express your feelings.

Written by WeddingVendors, date Jul 05, 2010 in ceremony, WeddingCeremony
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Amber says:

January 6, 2011 at 4:54 pm

The wedding ceremony readings are so important. I wish I could write them myself, but I am so afraid I would write something wrong. I know it’s not a problem because there are so many wedding readings that one could use, some taken from old wedding scrapbooks, others from books and as you wrote, so many love poems and quotes from all kind of novels. But as every bride, I want my wedding readings to be totally original, nothing that’s been wrote or said so far. There are so many I’ve heard in the movies as well, but they are all written for particular love stories. So I want to write some that would fit my own love story. But how should it be?Funny? Romantic?Melancholic?Serious?A combination of all these?

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