Wedding Readings

[LuBlu]

Does anyone have any suggestions for wedding readings. I need a bible reading and a non bible reading. Can anyone help with something different from the norm? Thanks...

[China Doll]

On of my favourites read at my dads wedding. Shakespeare, sonnet 116.

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.

[China Doll]

And this one was at my mums... Hoever I'm not sure that either of the readings I've posted are different from the norm I'm afraid!

1 Corinthians 13:1-8a and 13

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails....And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

[lafrancaise]

http://www.hitched.co.uk/plan/readings/page2.a sp

The Shepherd to his love, how lovely. There are others on this site.

[Senga 2]

Heard one years ago - not accurately quoted but as I remeber it.
When god made Woman he took one of Man's ribs. Not from his foot to be beneath him. Not from his head to be above him. Not from his back to be behind. From his side to be a companion. From beneath his arm to be sheltered by him. From near his heart to be loved by him.