Just curious about what you guys are having.

We will have one reading - either a piece from 'The Velveteen Rabbit' or 'The Little Prince' - read by Mil.

Share your readings here for both church and cival services

Gracelet - probably wise words.

We had The Art of Marriage read by my godmother and Dan's stepfather read out a re-write of the Khubla Khan poem that he had done especially for us.

I prefer the ceremony on the shorter side - too long and the kids will all play up...

Interesting choices everyone!

I love the SatC poem

Me too but it's very symbolic for my life before h2b so it would be inappropriate I think. But I did consider it!

were having a hotel wedding but ive asked my uncle to do a reading as part of the ceremony for us. but ive no idea where to start looking tbh. he is very religious but i dont want a religious reading. can anyone help me out with some sites ill be hugely grateful xxx

or even just google love readings. that pulls some awesome stuff xxx

awww that's lush xx

You have a church wedding in a hotel?

I really like that Kylee27, not really suitable for us as my sil is ginger and a close friend coming to the wedding is German!!!

Ah, Scottish laws are always different, aren't they - sounds great!

We are having a dr seuss reading from "oh the places you'll go" read by my daughter.

No dinosaurs? :-)

I think we're going to ask fil2b to read an extract from "On Marraige" by Kahlil Gibran, missing out the first verse which is a bit too religious for us.

"Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

My cousin is doing our first reading and she is writing her own which she has said we are not allowed to hear till the day lol, i have asked my mum to check it though ;-), we havnt decided who is doing the 2nd yet, we have asked h2b's daughter, she is 14 at the moment but will be nearly 16 by the time the wedding comes she is unsure if she could stand up and do it, if she does it will only be a short reading. If not im not sure who we will ask, i would like my uncle to do it but then that might offend my other uncle so think h2b will choose someone x

I like it. Will take a note of it and put in a card maybe. :-)

Oh OWB that's brilliant, I couldn't stop laughing!! I also had to re-read it...lol. We've all got filthy minds.

hahaha i just laughed out loud and snorted in a very ungraceful way. colleagues looking at me now.

LOL Emma...that's exactly the kind of thing my Dan laughs at too. Got a text from him saying "People at work keep talking about inserting things into boxes...I might die trying not to laugh".
Love by Roy Croft is a nice reading?

I had high hopes for the dinosaur one. H2B and I have a toy dinosaur we bought when we started dating. We called him Mr.Wigglebutt cause when you press the button he sticks his b u t t in the air and wiggles around. It really amused us and still does! lol.

But when I read it, it was really hard to follow, badly written, badly structured and didn't make sense to me. It also plays on gender stereotypes too much for my liking, it doesn't fit us at all. Like, I don't forgive my H2B for his 'faults' I accept them and love them as part of who he his.

It's just not for me!

I am liking Sonnet 116 though.

This is 1 of ours as it feels like vows arnd our Cypriot legal vows are very unromantic. Not sure of a 2nd yet.

'I Promise'

I promise to give you the best of myself
and to ask of you no more than you can give.

I promise to respect you as your own person
and to realise that your interests, desires and needs
are no less important than my own.

I promise to share with you my time and my attention
and to bring joy, strength and imagination to our relationship.

I promise to keep myself open to you,
to let you see through the window of my world into my innermost fears
and feelings, secrets and dreams.

I promise to grow along with you,
to be willing to face changes in order to keep our relationship alive and exciting.

I promise to love you in good times and in bad,
with all I have to give and all I feel inside in the only way I know how.
Completely and forever.

Dorothy R. Colgan

ooh so after I posted the other week about having decided on our readings I went and changed my mind again! We are now having 'The Velveteen Rabbit', 'Marriage fufills the dreams and love that two people share' (not as soppy as it sounds! lol) and we WERE going to have the 'Lovely love story' (dinosaurs!) but then I discovered a gorgeous, sweet reading and I HAD to have it, so the third one is going to be 'Guess how much I love you'.

For those of you not familiar with it, this is it:

Little Nutbrown Hare, who was going to bed, held on tight to Big Nutbrown Hare's very long ears. He wanted to be sure that Big Nutbrown Hare was listening.
"Guess how much I love you," he said.
"Oh, I don't think I could guess that," said Big Nutbrown Hare.
"This much," said Little Nutbrown Hare, stretching out his arms as wide as they could go.
Big Nutbrown Hare had even longer arms. "But I love YOU this much," he said.
Hmm, that is a lot, thought Little Nutbrown Hare. "I love you as high as I can reach," said Little Nutbrown Hare.
"I love you as high as I can reach," said Big Nutbrown Hare.
That is quite high, thought Little Nutbrown Hare. I wish I had arms like that. Then Little Nutbrown Hare had a good idea. He tumbled down and reached up the tree trunk with his feet. "I love you all the way up to my toes!" he said.
"And I love you all the way up to your toes," said Big Nutbrown Hare, swinging him up over his head.
"I love you as high as I can HOP!" laughed Little Nutbrown Hare, bouncing up and down.
"But I love you as high as I can hop," smiled Big Nutbrown Hare - and he hopped so high that his ears touched the branches above. That's good hopping, thought Little Nutbrown Hare. I wish I could hop like that.
"I love you all the way down the lane as far as the river," cried Little Nutbrown Hare.
"I love you across the river and over the hills," said Big Nutbrown Hare.
That's very far, thought Little Nutbrown Hare. He was almost too sleepy to think any more. Then he looked beyond the thorn bushes, out into the big dark night. Nothing could be further than the sky.
"I love you right up to the MOON," he said, and closed his eyes.
"Oh that's far," said Big Nutbrown Hare. "That is very, very far."
Big Nutbrown Hare settled Little Nutbrown Hare into his bed of leaves. He leaned over and kissed him good night.
Then he lay down close by and whispered with a smile, "I love you right up to the moon - AND BACK."

Its so cute :o)

Sorry if this is posted twice, my PC is playing up. I love the Fraggle Rock ones!!! Although I'm not sure how the line "or if a mad rhinoceros decides to come and stay" would go down with some of the MILs.

We finally decided on asking my god-daughter and god-son to read The Other Lovely Dinosaur and they are nearly as excited as me and h2b - we both loved it but really wanted it to be read by a duo and preferably not adult.
We had also asked sil2b to do a reading and we must have looked at 100's and nothing was right for us. We thought we had decided on having her read "Better Together" by Jack Johnson as its one of our 2 songs (Wires by Athlete isn't quite suitable)

We have ended up making up our own reading:
If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you.
when mountains crumble to the sea, there would still be you and me.

From the very first moment I saw you, that's when I knew
All the dreams I held in my heart, had suddenly come true

I don't get many things right the first time, In fact, I am told that a lot
Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls, brought me here

I think I've found my best friend, I think I dreamed you into life
I'll be your hope, I'll be your love, be everything that you need

I would not leave you in times of trouble, we never could have come this far.
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I take you just the way you are.

Love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart
Like "why are we here?" and "where do we go?" and "how come it's so hard?"

It's not always easy, sometimes life can be deceiving
I'll tell you one thing, it's always better when we're together

You are first on my list, when everything around is gone i know
You are first on my list, when everything is shown up for what it is

And so today, my world it smiles, your hand in mine, we walk the miles,
Thanks to you it will be done, for you to me are the only one.

If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you.
If the mountains should crumble to the sea, there would still be you and me.

Some of you may have noticed what we have done?????