Readings / Quotes
WITH READINGS & QUOTES, THEY FLOW WELL IF THEY ARE YOUR PERSONAL FAVS! IF NOT, DON’T USE THEM! YOUR OFFICIANT WILL HAVE ENOUGH GOOD STUFF IN TELLING YOUR STORY AND THE FLOW WILL BE FAR MORE NATURAL. NOW….HAVING SAID THIS, HERE ARE SOME READINGS & QUOTES TO VIEW AND REMEMBER…USE THE ONE THAT ‘SPEAKS TO YOU!’
MAYBE by Unknown
Maybe we are supposed to meet the wrong people before we meet the right one so when they finally arrive we are truly grateful for the gift we have been given. Maybe its true that we don’t know what we have lost until we lose it but it is also true that we don’t know what we’re missing until it arrives. Maybe the happiest of people don’t have the best of everything, but make the best of everything that comes their way. Maybe the best kind of love is the kind where you sit on the sofa together, not saying a word, and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had. Maybe once in a lifetime you find someone who not only touches your heart but also your soul, someone who loves you for who you are and not what you could be. Maybe the art of true love is not about finding the perfect person, but about seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Handfasting/Tying of Hands
Across the years I will walk with you in deep green forests; on shores of sand. And when our time on earth is through, in heaven, too, you will have my hand. Upon this day, our hands we bind, A symbol of our hearts entwined. To witness this, we ask of thee, Our union forever blessed be.
Disney Wedding Readings: From Nightmare Before Christmas
My dearest friend, if you don’t mind I’d like to join you by your side Where we can gaze into the stars And sit together, now and forever For it is plain as anyone can see We’re simply meant to be.
Dr.Suess
"People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love."
Pablo Neruda
"I love you without knowing how or when or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride: so I love you in this way because I know no other way than this, in which there is no I or you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that when I fall asleep, your eyes close.Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference."
“Don't Ever Take Love for Granted: A Poem”
Don't ever take love for granted! Don't ever agree, no matter how tired you may be, To let your sparrows stop singing, And your beautiful flowers wilt.
Most importantly, don't ever think That everything passes and ends. Yes, stars burn out, but the one star Named Love must ever and ever Burn in the heavens!
Don't ever take love for granted, And change happiness for comfortable habits As if turning a fire into tiny matches, Don't sell yourself out, but live passionately!
Don't ever take for granted those lips Which you seem to have known forever, Just like you wouldn't take for granted the sun and winds Or the storm amid furious thunder!
Yes, you may in insignificant feelings Find someone, lose them, and find them again, But should you be lucky enough to find love, Then to take it for granted is as betraying your blood Or gambling away all you own all at once!
Don't ever take happiness for granted! Instead, shining with a beautiful fire, Always look at your love With vibrant and endless amazement.
A diamond isn't a servant to time And will never lose its worth. Be ever amazed then that you, Deserving of it or not - that's not for you to judge - Have managed to find happiness in this world!
And so that your love's star never dies, Be filled with an enlightened art: Don't let your feelings run their course, Don't ever take happiness for granted.
“The Wedding Singer”
I want to make you smile whenever you're sad Carry you around when your arthritis is bad All I want to do is grow old with you I'll get your medicine when your tummy aches Build you a fire if the furnace breaks Oh it could be so nice, growing old with you I'll miss you Kiss you Give you my coat when you are cold Need you Feed you Even let you hold the remote control So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink Put you to bed if you've had too much to drink I could be the man who grows old with you I want to grow old with you.
These are the Hands
Love each other from this day forward, and these will be the hands that you hold tomorrow, and the next day, and into the next decade. These are the hands that will work alongside yours as you build your life together, the hands that will touch you with love and tenderness through the years, and the hands that will comfort you like no others’ can. These are the hands that will hold you through grief, fear, and hardship. These are the hands that will wipe tears of joy and sorrow from your eyes, and the hands that will tenderly hold your children. These are the hands that will hold your family together, and that will give you strength when you need it. These are the hands, that when wrinkled and spotted with age, will still be reaching for yours.
“The Art of Marriage,” by William A. Peterson
The little things are the big things. It is never being too old to hold hands. It is remembering to say “I love you” at least once a day.
It is never going to sleep angry. It is at no time taking the other for granted; the courtship should not end with the honeymoon, it should continue through all the years.
It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives. It is standing together facing the world. It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family.
It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude of duty or sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy.
It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways. It is not expecting the husband to wear a halo or the wife to have wings of an angel. It is not looking for perfection in each other.
It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a sense of humor. It is having the capacity to forgive and forget. It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow.
It is finding room for the things of the spirit. It is a common search for the good and the beautiful. It is establishing a relationship in which the independence is equal, dependence is mutual and the obligation is reciprocal. It is not only marrying the right partner, it is being the right partner
When I Say I Love You
When I say I love you more, I don’t mean I love you more than you love me. I mean I love you more than the bad days ahead of us, I love you more than any fight we will ever have. I love you more than the distance between us, I love you more than any obstacle that could try and come between us. I love you the most.” — (Unknown)
To Love is not to Possess (James Kavanaugh)
To love is not to possess,
To own or imprison,
Nor to lose one’s self in another.
Love is to join and separate,
To walk alone and together,
To find a laughing freedom
That lonely isolation does not permit.
It is finally to be able
To be who we really are
No longer clinging in childish dependency
Nor docilely living separate lives in silence,
It is to be perfectly one’s self
And perfectly joined in permanent commitment
To another—and to one’s inner self.
Thesea are the Hands (Different Version)
These are the hands of your best friend, young and strong and full of love for you, that are holding yours on your wedding day, as you promise to love each other today, tomorrow, and forever.
These are the hands that will work alongside yours, as together you build your future.
These are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through the years, and with the slightest touch, will comfort you like no other.
These are the hands that will hold you when fear or grief fills your mind.
These are the hands that will countless times wipe the tears from your eyes; tears of sorrow, and tears of joy.
These are the hands that will tenderly hold your children.
These are the hands that will help you to hold your family as one.
These are the hands that will give you strength when you need it.
And lastly, these are the hands that even when wrinkled and aged, will still be reaching for yours, still giving you the same unspoken tenderness with just a touch.
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernières
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don’t blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being ‘in love’, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
The Amber Spyglass – Phillip Pullman
I will love you forever; whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again…I’ll be looking for you, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one’ll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you…We’ll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams…And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won’t just be able to take one, they’ll have to take two, one of you and one of me.
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
― Oscar Wilde
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.”
— Angelita Lim
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
— Leo Christopher
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” — A. A. Milne
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.”
— Lord of The Rings
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
— Herman Hesse
“I choose you. And I’ll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you.”
— (Unknown)
“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
— When Harry Met Sally