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Special Readings and Poems for Weddings
Just
the right words on just the right occasion last forever.
Special Readings for weddings are one of the things that can make
the wedding personal, memorable, and unique. Read through this
collection and find one or two that you like. Also consider
the person who will be reading it during your wedding. The
right person can make it special, the wrong person can make it bomb
and nobody wants that. Solomon said the right word at the
right time is like "apples of gold in pitchers of silver."
Sonnet XIV
If thou must love me, let it be for nought,
Except for love's sake only. do not say,
I love her for he smile -- her look -- her way.
Of speaking gently, -- for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day”—
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee, -- and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Think own dear pity’s wiping my cheeks dry,--
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love’s sake, that evermore
Thou mayest love on, through love’s eternity.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Sonnets from the Portuguese
Sonnet XLIII
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise,
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints -I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! -and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Sonnets from the Portuguese
4Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does
not brag and is not
arrogant, 5does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is
not provoked, does
not take into account a wrong suffered, 6does not rejoice in
unrighteousness, but
rejoices with the truth; 7bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all
things. 8Love never fails;
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NASB)
“Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after
thee:
for
whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest I will lodge;
thy
people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
Where
thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried:
the
Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and
me.”
Ruth 1:16-17
Sonnet XVIII
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chanced, or nature’s changing course, untrim’d,
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor loose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wandr’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,j
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
William Shakespeare
Dr. Kelly
Carr, Pastor and Author of
Wedding Vow Kit and the
Wedding Rehearsal Genie.
For a great
list of Special Readings and Elements for weddings try
www.weddingvowkit.com
Pastors,
Ministers, and Wedding Officiates try
www.WeddingIncome.com
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