Wedding Readings
A collection of wedding ceremony readings. Browse freely or use the drop-down menu below to find your preferred style. Register to save your favourites and create a shortlist in your personal dashboard.
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Thomas A Kempis
Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good.By itself it makes that which is heavy light;and it bears evenly all that is uneven.It carries a burden which is no burden;it will not be kept back by anything… Read More »
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Robert Burns
O my Luve is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve is like the melody That’s sweetly played in tune. So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I; And… Read More »
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Harry Baker
A slightly shortened version of Dust by Harry Baker. We loved the laid back love story of this poem and Nick our videographer used it perfectly in our wedding video. Read by Will, friend of the couple Dust by Harry… Read More »
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Happy the husband of a really good wifeThe number of his days will be doubled.A perfect wife is the joy of her husband,He will live out the years of his life in peace.A good wife is the best of portions,Reserved… Read More »
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Lemn Sissay
If there was ever oneWhom when you were sleepingWould wipe your tearsWhen in dreams you were weeping;Who would offer you timeWhen others demand;Whose love lay more infiniteThan grains of sand. If there was ever oneTo whom you could cry;Who would… Read More »
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George The Poet
There’s an indescribable beauty in union In two beings forming one new being Entering each other’s world Surrendering each other’s selves Accepting the invitation to be everything to someone else There’s an unparalleled bravery in union In telling the one… Read More »
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Robert Gerhardt
This is a special place, a place where people have brought beautiful living plants, here to establish them, to nurture and care for them, that they may forever surround us with the beauty we now see. And into this place… Read More »
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Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
Does the sun promise to shine?No, but it will—even behind the darkest clouds,and no promisewill make it shine longer or brighterfor that is its fate,to burn until it can burn no more.To love you is not my promisebut my fate—to… Read More »
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Eileen Rafter
The sun danced on the snowwith a glittering smile, As two lovers sat quietly,alone for a while. Then he turned and said, witha casual air, (Though he blushed from histoes to the tips of his hair) “I think I’d quite… Read More »
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Ogden Nash
How wise I am to have instructed the butlerto instruct the first footman to instruct the secondfootman to instruct the doorman to order my carriage;I am about to volunteer a definition of marriage.Just as I know that there are two… Read More »
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Jane Wells
‘Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break. Believe the best rather than the worst. People have a way of living up… Read More »
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Percy Shelley
The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and… Read More »