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Mr. Bee and I wanted to keep our nondenominational wedding ceremony short, sweet, and simple. In retrospect I think that it was a little too short, and we should have incorporated a reading or two into it. We had a wonderful wedding but being in the wedding biz and all, I can’t help but think “if I could do it again” all the time. 
At the wedding we attended this past weekend, three carefully selected readings were read, and the passages were included in the program so guests could follow along. They included:
Sonnet XVII was read in both Spanish and English and I thought that was a wonderful way to incorporate a cultural and meaningful reading into your ceremony.
What readings, if any, are you using in your ceremony?
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Marriage Means Being in Love for the Rest of Your Life (Chris Ardis)
Marriage is love walking hand in hand together.
It’s laughing with each other about silly little things, and learning to discuss big things with care and tenderness.
In marriage, love is trusting each other when you’re apart.
It’s getting over disappointments and hurts, knowing that these are present in all relationships.
It is the realization that there is no one else in this world that you’d rather be with than the one you’re married to.
It’s thinking of new things to do together; it’s growing old together.
Marriage is being in love for the rest of your life.
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and possibly this Native American Blessing (haven’t 100% decided):
Now you will feel no rain,
For each of you will be shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold,
For each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no more loneliness for you,
For each of you will be a companion to the other.
Now you are two bodies,
But there is only one life before you.
Go now to your dwelling place
To enter into the days of your togetherness,
And may your days be good and long upon the earth
I really like “The Invitation” — I’d never read that one before!
oh man… i just shot a wedding where the groom recited part of Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda… but he made it seem it was his own… guest were crying & talking about it all night…
This was one of the hardest parts of our wedding planning process … I even posted a Beehive question about it! We decided on “Union” by Robert Fulghum and an extraction from “Song of the Open Road” by Walt Whitman.
From “Gift From The Sea” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern.
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides.
I love Anne Marrow Lindbergh’s quotes. She said so many profound things so beautifully.
Here are a few I have collected.
LOVE SONG
How shall I hold on to my soul, so that
it does not touch yours? How shall I lift
it gently up over you on to other things?
I would so very much like to tuck it away
among long lost objects in the dark
in some quiet unknown place, somewhere
which remains motionless when your depths resound.
And yet everything which touches us, you and me,
takes us together like a single bow,
drawing out from two strings but one voice.
On which instrument are we strung?
And which violinist holds us in the hand?
O sweetest of songs.
Rainer Maria Rilke
[b]another favorite that I most likely will use is [/b]
[url="http://www.columbia.edu/~gm84/gibran3.html"]The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran[/url]
I am a sculptor, a molder of form.
In every moment I shape an idol.
But then, in front of you, I melt them down
I can rouse a hundred forms
and fill them with spirit,
but when I look into your face,
I want to throw them in the fire.
My soul spills into yours and is blended.
Because my soul has absorbed your fragrance,
I cherish it.
Every drop of blood I spill
informs the earth,
I merge with my Beloved
when I participate in love.
In this house of mud and water,
my heart has fallen to ruins.
Enter this house, my Love, or let me leave
- Rumi
“I cannot exist without you. I am forgetful of everything but seeing
you again. My life seems to stop there, I see no further. You have
absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving. I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion… I have shudder’d at it… I shudder no more. I could be martyr’d for my religion: Love is my religion. I could die for that. I could die for you. My creed is love, and you are its only tenet. You have ravish’d me away by a power I cannot resist.” - letter written by
John Keats
[url="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15384"]How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count The Ways[/url]
[b]And I have various quotes that I adore that I hope to incorporate somehow:
“Oh, give me of the kisses of your mouth, For your love is more delightful than wine.” -Rumi
“When lovers moan, they’re telling our story.” - Rumi
“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.” - Walt Whitman
Mad Love
And if I go
into the wild sweet of your eyes
will I know more
of this burning country I love?
[i]I particularly like that one since my bf and I are from different countries[/i]
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Mrs. Bee, New York
Age and Occupation: 29, Weddingbee Publisher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Internet
Engagement Date: May 7, 2004
Wedding Date: March 5, 2005
Venue: Westside Loft, New York
About Me: Yes, my name really is Bee! I love my blogging, wikis, and tabasco sauce!
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