Need ideas for something appropriate? Reading for a wedding

suejb2

How about the lyrics to "Lovesong" by The cure

arbrighton

CH27 wrote: »

I know it's religious & won't suit some people but I think the best wedding reading is from 1 Corinthians.

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Unless of course that was the passage that you read at your grandmother's funeral and then every blinking wedding thereafter that you attend chooses it.

meritaten

I am always amazed at people who choose 'Every breath you take' as their wedding song. its about a crazed stalker!

maman

lika_86 wrote: »

This extract from The Velveteen Rabbit:

http://justthething.co.uk/default.aspx?go=article&articleid=186

Counting_Pennies wrote: »

We had this at our wedding


1st Corinthians13:1-8, The Bible

I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell.

I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains - but if I have no love, I am nothing.

I may give away everything I have and even give up my body to be burnt - but if I have no love, this does me no good.

Love is patient and kind;

love is not jealous or boastful;

it is not arrogant or rude.

Love does not insist on its own way;

it is not irritable or resentful;

it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends.

Both DH and I have been asked to read at friends/family wedding in recent years and both of these have been used (although I prefer the original King James version of the bible reading). Another thought if the couple concerned have been together for a long time is the 'Owl and the !!!!!cat' . My DD used it at sister's wedding and it went down well 'Oh let us be married too long we have tarried......' .

lizziebabe

Hi OP, you have posted this twice. I have answered your other post on 'Weddings and Anniversaries'.

mysk_girl

We had song lyrics as a reading, although I'm pretty sure I would have been the only one at the wedding who knew it (at all, let alone as a song!)

It was "if I ever sing a love song" by Judy Small

If I ever sing a love song
You can know that it's for you
Although it might not mention names
Or the times that we've been through
It might be the kind of song anyone can sing along
But you'll know it's for you if I ever sing a love song

It won't be the kind of song to say love, love me do
It won't say I'll fall apart if you find somebody new
It will speak of honesty, of wonders and hard times
Cos happy ever after lives are only true in pantomimes

It won't speak of forever, well nothing's guaranteed
It won't say that you are mine or that I'm all you need
But it will speak of caring and of comfort in your arms
Delighting in your company and feeling safe and warm

If I ever sing a love song
You can know that it's for you
Although it might not mention names
Or the times that we've been through
It might be the kind of song anyone can sing along
But you'll know it's for you if I ever sing a live song

It's rare for me to sing of love, I guess it's not my style
But sometimes I have to sing out loud
How you make my spirit smile.


It wouldn't suit everyone, but it was perfect for us.

LisaLou1982

Thanks to all for your suggestions! Theyve been a massive help xx

Dunroamin

"You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.
Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
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. "

The Prophet by Kahil Gibran

de_g.

We had the following from 'A Gift from the Sea' by Anne Morrow Lindbergh chosen just because it spoke to us, particularly the last sentence:

Here the bonds of marriage are formed. For marriage, which is always spoken of as a bond, becomes actually many bonds, many strands, of different texture and strength, making up a web that is taut and firm. The web is fashioned of love, yes, but many kinds of love – romantic love first, then a slow-growing devotion, and playing through these a constantly rippling companionship.

It is made of loyalties, and interdependencies, and shared experiences. It is woven of memories of meetings and conflicts, triumphs and disappointments. It is a web of communication, a common language, a knowledge of likes and dislikes, of habits and reactions. It is a web of instincts and intuitions, and known and unknown exchanges. In the years together one recognises the truth of Saint-Exupery’s line “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction”.

neverdespairgirl

CH27 wrote: »

I know it's religious & won't suit some people but I think the best wedding reading is from 1 Corinthians.

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

arbrighton wrote: »

Unless of course that was the passage that you read at your grandmother's funeral and then every blinking wedding thereafter that you attend chooses it.

I think it's a great passage, although I think the AUthorised Version is much nicer.

I read it at my grandmother's funeral, and have also heard it at several weddings, and thought it universally appropriate.

1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2 And though I have prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

11 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.

12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.