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Romantic Wedding Readings for Your Ceremony
When it comes to crafting a heartfelt and inclusive wedding ceremony, choosing the right readings can make a significant difference. Asking a friend or family member to do a reading not only honours them with a special role but also adds a personal touch to your ceremony. However, the challenge often lies in selecting the perfect reading. The pressure can be overwhelming, but here's a little secret to ease your stress:
The most important rule is simple: ‘You have to like it!’.
Truly, deeply like it. If you and your partner aren’t genuinely moved by the reading, it’s unlikely to resonate with your guests either.
So, where should you look for these meaningful readings? Think about the songs that make you sing along, the books that make you laugh, and the movies that bring tears to your eyes. Your readings, vows, and music should all hold significant meaning for you. If they don't, it's time to reconsider.
If you're searching for something unique, sweet, romantic, and perhaps a bit unconventional, you're in the right place.
In this post, I’ll share some wedding readings from films, music, and poetry that might just be the perfect addition to your ceremony.
Readings from Films
"When Harry Met Sally"
"I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts... I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night."
"Juno"
"In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass."
"The Notebook"
"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever."
"Up"
"You and me... we’re in a club now. And you will always be my greatest adventure."
Poetry
"All I Know About Love" by Neil Gaiman
This is everything I have to tell you about love: nothing.
This is everything I've learned about marriage: nothing.
Only that the world out there is complicated,
and there are beasts in the night, and delight and pain,
and the only thing that makes it okay, sometimes,
is to reach out a hand in the darkness and find another hand to squeeze,
and not to be alone.
It's not the kisses, or never just the kisses: it's what they mean.
Somebody's got your back.
Somebody knows your worst self and somehow doesn't want to rescue you
or send for the army to rescue them.
It's not two broken halves becoming one.
It's the light from a distant lighthouse bringing you both safely home
because home is wherever you are both together.
So this is everything I have to tell you about love and marriage: nothing,
like a book without pages or a forest without trees.
Because there are things you cannot know before you experience them.
Because no study can prepare you for the joys or the trials.
Because nobody else's love, nobody else's marriage, is like yours,
and it's a road you can only learn by walking it,
a dance you cannot be taught,
a song that did not exist before you began, together, to sing.
And because in the darkness you will reach out a hand,
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