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suggestions for a wedding reading?Submitted by mommymash on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 8:22pm.
i keep forgetting to ask if anyone knows of any great wedding readings that i could use at my best friend's wedding ceremony next week. the bride and groom aren't religious, and everything i keep finding online is either about god or is just super cheesy and old school. i tried a search for 'alternative wedding readings' but got mostly stuff about native american, celtic, and medeivel-style ceremonies! all kind of cool, but not the kind of ceremony she's having. any suggestions would be sooo apreciated! thankyou everyone for all your ideas! I think it was called "On Love". There's a beautiful line in this passage about something like standing apart like two strong trees, so that the wind could blow between you. Like about how love is not about possession, but mutual strength. "Too weird to live. Too rare to die." - Hunter S. Thompson For our ceremony we took a little from both Rainier Rilke & Kahlil Gribran - This plus the exchange of vows constituted our 5 minute ceremony! My grandmother was scandalized! From Rilke; From Gibran; You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore Love one another but make not a bond of love it made me cry a little bit; this must be the one. The what is real passage with skin horse. I read that at a wedding a few years agao, really lovely. by Rumi - you might find something there too the 1 Corinthians "love is patient love is kind" and also one from Ruth (forgot the verse) "where thou go I shall go" - we omitted things that we felt were too over the top or used more modern versions/words. he had some pretty feminist ideas about marriage, or what I think are feminist ideas about marriage, i.e. making sure both man and woman have a complete sense of self before they promise themselves to one another, that being married isn't giving yourself to the other but promising to be guardian of one another's soul and solitude as you each pursue your own purposes in life, etc. there isn't really one solid passage i can recommend, but i think i took excerpts from his "letters to a young poet" and compiled them into one cohesive piece to read at my friend's wedding. |
I read from the Alchemist for a friend's wedding:
When he looked into her eyes, he learned the most important part of the
language that all the world spoke – the language that everyone on earth
was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something
older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. What the boy felt at
that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his
life, and that, with no need for words, she recognized the same thing.
Because when you know the language, it’s easy to understand that someone
in the world awaits you, whether it’s in the middle of the desert or in
some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, the past
and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the
incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by
one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul
for every person in the world. Without such love, one’s dreams would
have no meaning.
---Paulo Coehlo "The Alchemist"