Weddingbee Blog

I knew I had found the man of my dreams when on our second date we got into a heated argument over Milton and Shakespeare. We cut our date short, so we could head back to his place (minds out of gutter) to pull out his Milton and Shakespeare anthologies to read and battle over our favorite passages!

Great post! I’m a book nerd too. My favorite unconventional love story of recent years is definitely the Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger. Bonus points for its Chicago references! The male protagonist of this story works at the Newberry Library, which is where we’ll be married next spring! We’re definitely thinking of incorporating favorite books and/or quotes but aren’t quite sure how we want to do that yet.

I loved the history of love as well! I am a sucker for a good story that just draws you in. Your whole list is wonderful. I can’t believe you have tuck everlasting on there, Jesse Tuck was one of my first literary crushes ever :).

You should try “Love Walked In” for a totally sweet and poignant love story. I read it twice in a row because I couldn’t stop thinking about the characters.

And “The Time Traveler’s Wife” is an intense, otherworldly sort of romance as well.

Both would be delicious with a cup of tea and covers and a fall day.

Thanks for this post, hooray for Bookish bees!

Ohhhhh…”The Giving Tree”! I love that book! My co-worker and I were just discussing that and Shel Silverstein. Do you know the poem about the circle and the triangle? We could remember the illustration, but not what the poem was about. (One of her friends wanted to read it at another friend’s wedding, but was vetoed by the bride.)

I have always wanted to live in one of those houses where they have the built in shelves along all the walls of the room…we have to content ourselves w/ three squishy shelves. (Our apt. is very peculiar and we can only put shelves against interior walls — the exteriors are floor to ceiling glass. Seriously limits how many books you can accumulate. Boo…)

I loved History of Love; I read that on my honeymoon. If you like love stories, anything by Nicholas Sparks is great (sappy, but fun). My favorite love story is The Time Traveler’s Wife! OMG! And if you like Time Traveling - Journeyman on Monday nights is fun too!

my brother included the velveteen rabbit into his ceremony….
i can’t remember exactly which portions, were quoted, but it was from this section:

“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”

“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.

“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”

“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”

“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

“I suppose you are real?” said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive. But the Skin Horse only smiled.

“The Boy’s Uncle made me Real,” he said. “That was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can’t become unreal again. It lasts for always.”