Showing posts with label unique wedding poems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unique wedding poems. Show all posts

Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Unique and Beautiful Wedding Poems and Reflections Part 2

Unique & beautiful wedding readings can be found in many places!
If you've been to a few weddings, chances are, you've heard the same poems and reflections read over and over again. So why not treat your guests to something unique? Something that speaks to the depth and length of your relationship?
Below you will find some examples of some of the more unusual love poems, quotations, and reflections.Here's part two of the original list, which you can find here.




From "Jane Eyre"
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love - I have found you. You are my sympathy - my better self - my good angel; I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my center and spring of life, wraps my existence about you - and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”

By Charlotte Bronte


From "Wuthering Heights"

“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same… my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it.”
By Emily Bronte





From "Les Misérables"
"The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, the inexhaustible is requisite.
Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable. It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can extinguish. We feel it burning even to the very marrow of our bones, and we see it beaming in the very depths of heaven…
What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests on anything that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier. The serene and lofty soul, inaccessible to vulgar passions and emotions, dominating the clouds and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its vanities, its miseries, inhabits the blue of heaven, and no longer feels anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake.
If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct.”
By Victor Hugo


From "Every day"

“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”
By David Lavithan
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Unique and Beautiful Wedding Poems and Reflections

Beautiful and unique wedding poems & reflections
If you've been to a few weddings, chances are, you've heard the same poems and reflections read over and over again. So why not treat your guests to something unique? Something that speaks to the depth and length of your relationship?
Below you will find some examples of some of the more unusual love poems, quotations, and reflections.





From "Captain Corelli's Mandolin"
“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”
Spoken by  Louis de Bernières


From "The Princess Bride"
“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches… I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids…
I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I love you. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I…
I’ve been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn’t listen. Every time you said, ‘Farm Boy, do this’, you thought I was answering, ‘As you wish’, but that’s only because you were hearing wrong. ‘I love you’ was what it was, but you never heard.”
 Spoken by Westley


From "A Farewell to Arms"

"At night, there was the feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away; all other things were unreal. We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone. Often a man wishes to be alone and a woman wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. We were never lonely and never afraid when we were together."
 By Ernest Hemingway
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 From "The Amber Spyglass"

“I will love you forever; whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again… I’ll be looking for you, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one’ll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you… We’ll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams… And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won’t just be able to take one, they’ll have to take two, one of you and one of me.”
By Philip Pullman

 
 
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Saturday, 16 February 2013

Readings & Psalms for Catholic Wedding Ceremonies

As a former wedding planner; choosing the readings, whether they be religious or otherwise, can be tiresome. Most want to the poem or reading to be meaningful, but without pretension. If it is a religious ceremony, most couples quite happily consult with their priest or minister to advise them on the appropriate scripture.
But for those who choose a "civil" ceremony, the choice is almost endless. And for many, they aren't exactly aficionados when it comes to poetry; and don't want to choose one that, while it may seem sweet on the surface, might actually hide a darker meaning within the well chosen words.
Yes! It is quite the nightmare! :-)
But fret not, for I will happily supply you with plenty of suggestions that I used both in my own wedding, and with my former clients' wedding too. Tried and trusted, all the way. ;-)

For our wedding, my husband and I chose to have a Roman Catholic ceremony. Although this may seem like a very impersonal marriage ceremony, it is in face quite open for personalisation. Of course this may vary from parish to parish, but the parish I belong to, and in which we got married, is quite progressive.
And even if yours isn't, there are many ways to personalise your Church wedding (although my main experience is with the Catholic ceremony, I am sure that this can be applied to many other denominations too.)
Before I go any further, I feel I should point out that I am no theologian, and I don't not have the required depth of knowledge to discuss the scriptures below at any great length. I am merely posting them as a means to help you to narrow the field, so to speak, when it comes to choosing the correct readings for your marriage ceremony. This really is just a helpful guide for those who wish to shorten the process and ease the somewhat tiresome burden of choosing the readings for their Big Day. :-)
I would also add; if you plan to have children or even teenagers (or nervous adults even) I would advise choosing shorter readings, and to give the selected reader a copy of their reading as soon as possible, to allow themselves time to familiarise themselves with the sometimes archaic language.

Below I will place screen shots of the most commonly used readings in the Catholic wedding ceremony.

Choices for the First Reading:

Option 1: Genesis 1:26-28.31




 Option 2: Genesis 2:18-24



Option 3: Genesis 24:48-51. 58-67

 Option 4: Song of Songs 2:8-10.14.16; 8:6-7



 Option 5: The prophet Jeremiah 31:31-34
OK! I know! Enough already? Am I right?! :-) It can be quite daunting can't it?! Especially if like most modern couples, you're not a regular Mass-goer. (I'm as guilty as the next person!) 





The Responsorial Psalm:
The next part of the Wedding Mass which really needs your input in the Psalm. If you are having a vocalist, then it's Happy Days for you, because from my experience (as a Church Wedding singer), the Psalm will be sung. 
If you choose not to have a vocalist, or not to sing the Psalm, then there are some options available to you as to which Psalm can be read.


Option 1: The Lord fills the earth with his love.


Option 2: Praise the name of the Lord




Option 3: How good is the Lord to all




Option 4: O blessed are those who fear the Lord!


Option 5: Happy the man who takes delight in the Lord's commands


And as I previously mentioned above, the Responsorial Psalm may be sung. There are so many beautiful Psalms in song form, that you will be spoiled for choice! I will try to find some and embed them here at a later date, but your chosen vocalist should have at least a few for you to choose from. :-)



Choices for the Second Reading:

Directly following the Psalm, and preceding the Gospel Acclamation, is the Second Reading.

Option 1: Romans 12:1-2.9-18 
 


Option 2: Corinthians 12:31- 13:8



Option 3: Corinthians 6:13-15.17-20




Option 4: Colossians 3:12-17

Option 5: John 4:7-12