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Suprising Readings You May Not Have Considered

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Your ceremony should be special and unique to you and your groom, and what better way to personalize your ceremony than by incorporating a different reading.  The “standards” that you are probably used to hearing are “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” or “Love is patient, love is kind,” but there are others.  These new options chosen by the editors at Brides Magazine might prevent your guests from a quick snooze and keep their attention.

1. Children’s book: All the World

by Liz Garton Scanlon

Excerpt: “Everything you hear, smell, see. All the world is everything…Hope and peace and love and trust, All the world, is all of us.”

 

2. Etiquette guide: Miss Manners’ Guide to the Turn-of-the-Millennium

by Judith Martin

Excerpt: “Anyone who tries to compete with the rest of the world, demanding to be someone’s sole source of…attention, is asking to be classified as a bore. ‘Why don’t you ever want to talk to me?’ will…never start a satisfactory marital conversation. ‘Guess what?’ will…never fail.”

3. Lyrics: “Wedding Song”

by Bob Dylan

Excerpt: “Oh, cant you see that you were born to stand by my side

And I was born to be with you, you were born to be my bride

You’re the other half of what I am, you’re the missing piece

And I love you more than ever with that love that doesn’t cease.”

4. Poem: “I Wrote a Good Omelet”

by Nikki Giovanni

Excerpt: “I wrote a good omelet…and ate a hot poem…after loving you

Buttoned my car…and drove my coat home…in the rain…after loving you.”

5. Prose: “The The Ent and the Entwife” (from The Two Towers)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Excerpt: “Together we will take the road that leads into the West,

And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.”

 

So now feel free to let the waterworks flow freely.  We highly encourage you to research all the full versions of the readings above.  And in your pursuit of trying to set your ceremony apart from others, if you find any amazing reads that others should know about (and you’re willing to share), don’t forget to comment back to us and let us know of your off-beat literary finds.  As you can see from our short list of suggestions, you never know where you can find meaningful words to express specific sentiments.  So go forth and start reading everything a little bit differently.  Leave no bumper sticker, kitchen magnet, or school yard song unexamined.  Happy reading.

 

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