Wedding Reading - Extract from the English Patient

[Wotsits31]

I am giving a reading at my brother's wedding soon (civil ceremony) and am struggling to find a reading that they will like. They wouldn't want anything old-fashioned or slushy or a poem.
Someone told me that there is a beautiful passage in The English Patient about declaration of love but I wouldn't know where to start in looking for it. It would be ideal as it the bride to be's favourite film.
Any help or other ideas would be much appreciated!!!!

[spudqueen]

I always thought it was up to the happy couple to choose the readings, you just read their choice!

[Wotsits31]

So did I! But, apparently part of the honour of giving a reading is that the words that are chosen are considered a gift to the happy couple. I'd never heard this before!

[janey67]

My daughter had two lovely readings. One was an excerpt from Captain Corellis Mandolin 'love is a temporary madness' that is quite long but an actor friend read that one! and the other from Les Miserable beginning 'You can give without loving'.

[China Doll]

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.



William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

I read this at my dads wedding (their choice) and I think it's a lovely sonnet.

[rinkins]

What about the Apache Blessing?