Readings and hymns

mrscoles2be

Hi everyone. Sorry if this has been done, but can't find it anywhere. I'm looking for 2 readings for the service. The vicar tells me 1 has to be religious. I'm struggling to find any I like - just wondering if anyone else has any good ones they know of?

Also with hymns - we need at least 2. I love All Things Bright and Beautiful, but cant think of anymore. Ideas???

Thanks xxx

Saint_Chris

Can't help with the readings sorry

but daughter had bind us together as a hymn

and the little one sang, go compare the tune must have got to him.

Horace

I have a book called Poems & Readings for Weddings edited by Julia Watson. I have found 2 religious readings:

Dear friends, let us love one another,
because love comes from God. Whoever
loves is a child of God and knows God.
Whoever does not love does not know God,
for God is love. And God showed his love
for us by sending his only Son into the world,
so that we might have life through him.
This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God,
but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means
by which our sins are forgiven.
Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we
should love one another. No one has ever seen
God, but if we love one another, God lives in union with us,
and his love is made perfect in us.
From the First Letter of John - Good News Bible


Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and although I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and I have not love, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. Love suffereth, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Love never faileth, but whether there be prophecies, they shll fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know even more as also I am, known. And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
I Corinthians 13 (New King James version, 1982)

Your vicar should really be able to help you with religious readings. I have a fair few non-religious readings too.

ljbnotts

We havent decided on our readings yet but we are having these hymns:

All loves divine

To be a pilgrim

Dear Lord and father of mankind

We think! We havent totally decided and havent run it past the vicar yet!
)
(and yes i know i am a registrar but am getting married in Church! Should save some money and get a registrar to do it for us!)

Horace

have a look on this website as they have suggestions for readings and music.

I admit that I like Love Divine, All Loves Excelling and Praise my soul the king of heaven.

https://www.cofe.anglican.org/lifeevents/weddings/musicreadings.html

pretzelnut

footprints in the sand, i love this poem, i have heard it read out many a time at church.

hayleythedaisy

I like the idea of bind us together and all things bright and beautiful. I think although they are fairly obvious ones, it's much nicer to go for the obvious and people know the words than to go for something "different and unusual" that people mumble along to...

hayleythedaisy

Oh and the reading, I'm not religious so I can't recommend many but there's one, the Corinthians? I really like that and it's often read at churches.

fly_dragon_fly

this is list is more modern songs than hymns but most churchs sing them, i use to go to a baptist church but am getting married in a c of e church and the vicar knows most of the songs but her choir isn't as sure so we are teaching them lol. all these songs are on youtube

Beautiful One is a lovely song but more of a modern song than a hymn and not sure if i would class it as a wedding hymn but heard it at a wedding so gues you could, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9bC9CRv9oU


come on and celebrate is a wicked song to have at weddings i am having this as one of my songs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks5qWB-sp9s the video is awful but its the song

open the eyes of my heart lord i have heard at a wedding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wutmEjdbedE

i can only imagine is a nice one and you can take it what ever way you like.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xwzItqYmII

i could sing of your love forever is again a lovely song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ppaRmdtCU&feature=related

crldnll

Hi, we're having Corinthians 13 as our religious reading... as for hymns, we are having Give me Joy in my Heart and Amazing Grace

fly_dragon_fly

have you heard amazing grace to the tune of the house of the rising sun?

we use to sing it at school and it has always stuck in my head its a an amazing verson