Civil wedding reading

[rlbren]

My sister is getting married this year in a civil ceremony. we sadly lost my father to cancer last year and are looking for a reading that can be read in his memory at the reception. Any suggestions would be gratefully accepted.

[bookermel]

This is a good site. It would be difficult to suggest any one because you may want to bring your own meaning! It is also worth looking at the poems about life on this site I thought that I would have liked some of those at my wedding. Good luck on the day!

http://www.poetseers.org/themes/poems_about_de ath/

[Jagmac]

When my mum knew she had not long to live, she wrote this poem. It was read at her funeral by my father. If you wish to use it, you may with my blessing.

Think not of me red-eyed and sad, and shed no tears,
Think rather of the love we had throughout the years.
Remember me, but not in sorrow, with a smile
We banked a store of love, so borrow from the pile.
There is a memory there to suit your every mood,
I pray that you will find that they are mostly good.
For �tis a measure of the life that once I had,
If, in the balance, the good by far outweighs the bad.

Janet (Netta) McCracken
1926 - 1999

[Scylax]

At my father's funeral the most apt reading was
from 'Julius Caesar' :
'His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed
in him that Nature may stand up and say to all
the world: This was a Man.'