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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Blessing of the Hands, written by Reverend Daniel L. Harris, is a much loved choice for couples planning a handfasting wedding ceremony. Across many wedding traditions, the joining of hands is one of the most meaningful moments of the day,… Read More »
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William Letford
Marriage by William Letford is a wedding reading that speaks to couples who understand that love is built day by day. Rather than idealising romance, the poem focuses on the reality of sharing a life together, the routines, the humour,… Read More »
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C.P. Cavafy
If you are looking for a meaningful wedding ceremony reading about love, life and the journey you choose to take together, C. P. Cavafy’s Ithaka is a beautiful choice. This much loved poem speaks to the value of taking your… Read More »
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Obergefell v Hodges
This reading is taken from Justice Anthony Kennedy’s words in the 2015 Obergefell v Hodges case, the ruling that established marriage equality in the United States. Although written for a legal judgement, the passage has become loved around the world… Read More »
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“Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain – which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad – Marmite, village fetes, country lanes, people… Read More »
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Nayyirah Waheed
I am your friend.a soul for your soula place for your life. homeknow this. sun or water. here or away.we are a lighthouse. we leave. and we stay. Read More »
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Lang Leav
If you came to me with a face I have not seen, with a name I have never heard, I would still know you. Even if centuries separated us, I would still feel you. Somewhere between the sand and the… Read More »
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J.R.R. Tolkein
Lo! Young we are and yet have stoodlike planted hearts in the great Sunof Love so long (as two fair treesin woodland or in open dalestand utterly entwined and breathethe airs and suck the very lighttogether) that we have becomeas… Read More »
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Mary Oliver
What is the greatest gift?Could it be the world itself – the oceans, the meadowlark,the patience of the trees in the wind?Could it be love, with its sweet clamour of passion? Something else – something else entirelyholds me in thrall.That… Read More »
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It’s a love that actually feels really easy. It’s a love with no mixed signals. It’s a love where your happiness makes up so much of theirs. It’s a love where they simply have your best interests at heart. It’s… Read More »
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Bob Marley
If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. … Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just… Read More »
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Thomas Hardy
From ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’, by Thomas Hardy We are all on our own paths, all on our own journeys. Sometimes the paths cross, and people arrive at the crossing points at the same time and meet each other.… Read More »