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Remember how I’m in love with I Like You? Remember how I wanted to have part of it read at our wedding ceremony? Well, das not gonna happen.

Yesterday, we planned out our ceremony with our minister, and we just couldn’t find a spot for it. Even after shortening, it still never found a good place as not to break up the flow of the whole ceremony. So, like the take-action bride that I now have [sort of?] become, I Like You has landed on the cutting room floor. Never fear, we still have two other lovely readings, one of which was non-negotiable in our original plan, and another that we chose from the Bible. We are getting married in a church, after all.

Our first reading, to be read by our minister, is Song of Solomon 8:6-7. Mr. Scissors and I had several SoS and Ecclesiastes readings picked out, but this was the one we agreed to be the best and most appropriate for us.

Song of Solomon 8:6-7

Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm;
for love is as strong as death,
its jealously unyielding as the grave.
It burns like a blazing fire,
like a mighty flame.

Many waters cannot quench love;
rivers cannot wash it away.
If one were to give
all the wealth of his house for love,
it would be utterly scorned.

It’s romantic, but not floo-floo romantic. It’s just serious and pretty dang awesome. High-fives all around.

Our second reading, to be read by a reader, is one of our love poems. You may have heard me throw it around before. A cookie goes to anybody that split-second guesses it before you see it typed below.

i love you much(most beautiful darling)

i love you much(most beautiful darling)

more than anyone on the earth and i
like you better than everything in the sky

-sunlight and singing welcome your coming

although winter may be everywhere
with such a silence and such a darkness
noone can quite begin to guess

(except my life)the true time of year-

and if what calls itself a world should have
the luck to hear such singing(or glimpse such
sunlight as will leap higher than high
through gayer than gayest someone’s heart at your each

nearness)everyone certainly would(my
most beautiful darling)believe in nothing but love

Of course we’re using this. How could we not throw in e.e. cummings? (Besides the whole “i love you much” deal some of you may know I have going on!)

Part of me feels a little guilty for cutting I Like You, but the other part—the logical part that knows that readings don’t have feelings for me to hurt and that we don’t want a ceremony that lasts two billion hours—knows that it was a good and sound decision.

Did you cut out previously-planned readings from your ceremony? Did you feel weird about it, or am I just a strange bird?