Long gone are the days of dry, impersonal ceremonies. It’s a new age and you’re unique… make your ceremony just as special as you with a reading on your wedding day.
Having a civil ceremony means you’re able to tailor it to you and include the things that make you the great couple that you are.
However if you’re stuck for words to describe your relationship why not turn to your favourite excerpts from a book or poetry, quotes from your favourite movie or lyrics from a song.
By incorporating one or two of these you can creatively shape the narrative of your ceremony and share a little bit more insight about you as a couple with your friends and family.
It doesn’t have to be your celebrant who reads it, it could be a family member or friend, or even you. Who says what when is up to you.
I have a love of writing, creatively sharing stories and describing your love but every now and then it’s best left to the experts to define love and relationships.
Therefore I present to you a few of my favourite readings and poems I’ve discovered throughout this wonderful journey of celebranting.
Love Is Friendship Set On Fire by Laura Hendricks
"Love is friendship caught fire; it is quiet, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection, and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present, hopes for the future, and does not brood over the past. It is the day-in and day-out chronicles of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories, and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you do not have it, no matter what else there is, it is not enough.”
Note: 'Love is a friendship set on fire’ has to be the most read poem in my weddings. It’s by chance, not a suggestion that many of my couples have chosen this reading. It's reflective of the couples that I work with who have been together for many years and their relationships all formed from friendships.
Wild Awake by Hilary T. Smith
To my Valentine by Ogden Nash
I Carry Your Heart With Me by E. E. Cummings
Extract from Captain Correlli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
From The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
She’s Not Perfect by Bob Marley
What is Love by Unknown
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