They said they wanted something of the 'non-cheesy kind' that they hadn't heard a million and one times before so of course they asked me since I've been to a lot of weddings . When your legs don't work like they used to before. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh, From Gift From the Sea, Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward at the same direction.. And something to live for. 16 Travel-Themed Wedding Ideas to Kickstart Your New Adventure Getting married is your next big adventure togethercelebrate the occasion with these travel-themed wedding ideas to reflect your love of exploring the world. Nautical & Water Themed Wedding Readings. Apache Wedding Blessing Be Love Now Excerpt from The Alchemist Love is an Adventure Marriage Joins Two People in the Circle of Its Love Blessing for a Marriage Blessing of the Hands What is Love Excerpt from The Gift of the Sea Summary of Plato's Symposium Excerpt from The Bridge Across Forever On Marriage from The Prophet Let it rather be a moving sea Between the shores of your souls Fill each others cup But drink not from the same cup Sing and dance together and be joyous, But let each one of you be alone Even as the strings of the lute are alone Though they quiver with the same music Give your hearts But not into each others keeping For only the hand of life Can contain your hearts And stand together Yet not too near together For the pillars of the temple stand apart And the oak tree and the cypress Grow not in each others shadow. I hearThe slow and far-off seaAnd waves that beat a shoreThat could be trying toCall us toward our end,make us hurry throughThis little space of dark.Yet love can stretch it wide.Each life means so much workYou are my wealth, my pride.The good side of me, seeThat you stay by my sideTwo roots of one great tree.-Elizabeth Jennings. 6. Mmm, it's always better when we're together, Yeah, we'll look at the stars when we're together, Well, it's always better when we're together, Yeah, it's always better when we're together, And there is no combination of words I could say, It lies between you and lives and breathes. When you break a rule, when you act the fool. However, if you want to branch out a bit from whats been used over and over again, there are plenty of unique wedding readings for you to choose from. If youre really struggling because you have some readings that you really want to include but dont have time for in the ceremony, think about other ways to include them in your wedding day. We are in the dead of summer wedding season. The moon has become a dancer at this festival of love. Nor docilely living separate lives in silence, And perfectly joined in permanent commitment. May the joys of today Be those of tomorrow. Standing or walking, sitting or lying down, during all their waking hours, let them establish this mindfulness of good will, which is the highest state. A marriage cannot include everybody, because the reach of responsibility is short. And summer wedding season means outdoor weddings: weddings in fields, in parks, on mountaintops, and on the beach. 10 Authentically Beautiful Short Wedding Poems Lacey deShazo Apr 18, 2018 Wedding season is almost here, everybody! Just stick on your hips and don't reach round your waist. Trees stretching skyward would see us and smile, And all over heaven wed laugh for a while. These two lovely quotes from Ellie make the perfect wedding reading: "You and mewe're in a club now. It is establishing a relationship in which the independence is equal, dependence is mutual and the obligation is reciprocal. so close that your hand upon my chest is mine. O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the secret recesses of the cliff, Let me see you, let me hear your voice, For your voice is sweet, and you are lovely. Love wakes you up all hours of the night with its needs. One of those sweet, significant moments that leaves a footprint in your mind. They say so much with so little. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. Bad, love, bad! that many waters cannot quench, But if I know you. One of the many places you could add your favorite quotes or readings is to your wedding website, these quotes could potentially help convey your wedding style. Being in love first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. You can climb Back up a stream of radiance to the sky, And back through history up the stream of time. We have traveled together before, and we will travel together again., She clung to her husband. A wedding is the conjoining of systems in which Neither loses its single splendor and both are completely transformed. Here he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattices. Love that lays down its life, Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Remember that as obsessed as you are with these selections, your guests do want to go home at some point, and after three readings during the wedding ceremony, we think theyll get the point. In a religious wedding ceremony, wedding readings may come from a religious text and be read by the officiant themselves or couples can choose loved ones to read them. If you think it is natural you are blind. 11. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your hearts longing. If I were a seaweed at the bottom of the sea, It will run you around the block, and leave you panting, breathless. Short wedding quotes or longer adventure wedding poems? I promise to always care for you, connect with you, comfort you and celebrate with you. A promise. Love only endures when it moves like waves. The movie has become Valentine's Day ritual for many couples. Maybe you have a favorite TV show or movie that you feel represents what you and your partner want to be; those lines that you quote to each other can be made into wedding readings as well. Let us be like Two falling stars in the day sky. "When I say, 'I love you,' it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. More firmly through dark narrow places, I hear nothing but the words We speak to one another "Love, to her, was something that comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightning - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.". Collect, manage, and organize your wedding guest information for each event and track their preferences. Next, some longer wedding readings that might be perfect for your ceremony. Sometimes love just wants to go out for a nice long walk. It's you I like." by Tom Vellner BuzzFeed Staff We recently asked members of the. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love.. Most importantly, a shared love of nature and adventure is more than just a passion, it is often a lifestyle and a way of life. Many-an-awkward silence has followed a speech or Irish toast that someone found online and thought would be appropriate.. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself; So that, as we become clear and open, The more complete the joy of loving is. There are plenty of things to consider when youre choosing a wedding reading: what kind of ceremony youre having, what kind of atmosphere the ceremony will have, what you want to convey. Your open heart, Simple with giving, gives the primal deed, The first good world, the blossom, the blowing seed, The hearth, the steadfast land, the wandering sea. A wedding reading can be anything that you feel expresses how you feel about your partner or vice versa. Love can be bad. Marriage is the faultless, fragile logic of ecology: A reasonable process of give and take unfolding through cyclical and linear time. by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant. Weve even seen couples be thoughtful about their adventure wedding invitation wording. Lang, No matter what transpires between us, in this life or in any other, I will be with you always. Because perfect guys don't exist, but theres always one guy that is perfect for you. Love is an adventure and a conquest. Well, lets first talk about what a wedding reading actually is. Throw things away and love will bring them back. In fact, the less I have, the more I can love.-Erich Fromm, From To Have or To Be, There is no remedy for love but to love more., When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. "If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. There is tons of inspiration for wedding readings out there; after all, a good reading can come from anywhere. Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! And in return, love loves you and never stops. Wondering, wondering, where we had gone. People are like cities: We all have alleys and gardens and secret rooftops and places where daisies sprout between the sidewalk cracks, but most of the time all we let each other see is a postcard glimpse of a floodlit statue or a skyline. But the thing is, you dont have to climb Everest. It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief. The forest is mostly dark, its ways to be made a new day after day, the dark richer than the light and more blessed, provided we stay brave enough to keep on going in.-Wendell Berry, Can one have love? We are afraid it will never return. Examples of Geeky and Nerdy Wedding Readings To Make Your Ceremony Unique. Dont hurt him, don't change him, and dont expect for more than he can give. let the money remain unearned! It is another way to make the ceremony unique, especially when you choose readings that may not have been done before. Where true and lasting love can alone abide. You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before. C.S. Therefore, as Gods chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. All those conversations that were held riding in a car or on long walksall those sentences that began with When were married and continued with I will and you will and we willthose late-night talks that included someday and somehow and maybeand all those promises that are unspoken matters of the heart. 18 Movie And TV Quotes That Are Perfect Wedding Readings For when you want a non-traditional way to declare your love. There is here no declaration properly so called; the feeling is so plainly shared, that as soon as the man knows what it is in his own heart, he is sure of what it is in the womans.-Robert Louis Stevenson, From Virginibus Puerisque, They who travel the rocky road together arrive in paradise undivided.. Sure, 1 Corinthians is great, but what about reading some short wedding poems instead? . Extract from Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres. Inspiring, full of passion and utterly heart-warming, these non-religious readings are perfect for both a civil ceremony or church wedding. From Peter Pan to Matilda childrens literature is full of beautiful quotes that can come from books that are very personal to you, Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?. It gives two purposeless lives a work, He isn't going to quote poetry, hes not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Teacher, tender, comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life, Heart-whole and soul-free The august father Gave to me. Robert Louis Stevenson, Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you dont know youre having one until youre right in the middle of it., Love should run out to meet love with open arms. bound together in a cute binder that you can treasure forever in your home. I'll pursue solitary pathways Through the pale twilit meadows, With only this one dream: You come too." "Let Me Put it This Way" by Simon Armitage Amen.. We cannot join ourselves to one another without giving our word. by only me is your doing, my darling) I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant. Put you to bed when youve had too much to drink. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia, #7), It doesnt interest me what you do for a living. It doesnt interest me how old you are. As a result, it makes sense that we turn to naturalists and poets such as John Muir for inspiration on days like these. Wedding Readings by Irish Writers Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney Twice Shy by Seamus Heaney He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W. B. Yeats A Poet to his Beloved by W.B. In the art of marriage the little things are the big things. It doesnt interest me what planets are squaring your moon. And it was just at the time when he needed her most, because he suffered the disadvantage of being ten years ahead of her as he stumbled alone through the mists of old age, with the even greater disadvantage of being a man and weaker than she was. Shall we stick by each other as long as we live? Walt Whitman, The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Ceremony Reading: Love is an Adventure by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin A reading that will add a cosmic element to your ceremony By Claire I know this week's ceremony reading will resonate with lots of couples, it's Love is an Adventure by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Let the school stand! . Only one of our readings was the kind of 'typical wedding reading', but even that one held a lot of sentiment for us. It doesnt interest me who you know or how you came to be here. When the jeans that you bought in hope or in haste. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dancebetween you. Wedding Bible Verses About Marriage Relationships. This is what should be done by the man and woman who are wise, who seek the good, and who know the meaning of the place of peace. Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of Gods grace in its various forms. They can retain this love even when each would easily, if they allowed themselves, be in love with someone else. my heart)i am never without it (anywhere. Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Live, travel, adventure, bless, and dont be sorry., The love of God, unutterable and perfect, Flows into a pure soul The way that light rushes into a transparent object. Your open heart, Simple with giving, gives the primal deed, The first good world, the blossom, the blowing seed, The hearth, the steadfast land, the wandering sea. With such a huge field of material ready to discover, it can seem like a huge task to find the right one. A photo of the two of them sitting side by side, together, in their chairs . I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. Death quench or evil stir, Whether inspired by nature or passion, you'll have friends and family tearing up in no time. He says to me: Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; For stern as death is love, relentless as the nether-world is devotion; its flames are a blazing fire. Most of our content is built from questions from our readers. Again, it shouldnt matter where you source your readings for your wedding ceremony. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. I know what you'll do. Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens. Utterly new in every way, However, if youre not having a religiously-affiliated wedding ceremony, you can have a little bit more flexibility in your choice of texts. This means that you can really pull wedding readings from anywhere; it doesnt have to be from a book or a poem. A need for alliance to defeat Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. It doesnt interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. Let them do nothing that is mean or that the wise would reprove. If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. A good nature quote can help set that vibe for the ceremony. Adorable wedding readings Perfect for the romantic at heart, these adorable wedding readings from best-loved children's classics and poems are sure to make your guests shed a tear or two. Wear them every day to remind yourselves of the promises that you have made. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. Take a trip down memory lane with the much-loved teen drama, One Tree Hill and some rather lovely words from heartthrob Lucas Scott. I am trying to be truthful. Also, remember to check in with your partner and decide what the structure of your ceremony will look like and then how readings may fit into it. Let them be fervent, upright, and sincere, without conceit of self, easily contented and joyous, free of cares; let them not be submerged by the things of the world; let them not take upon themselves the burden of worldly goods; let their senses be controlled; let them be wise but not puffed up, and let them not desire great possessions even for their families. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. It has nothing to do with me. of us in breathless cold, facinga horizon round as a coin, loopedin a cats cradle strung by gullsfrom sea to sun. From modern poets to the classic greats, these poets found a way to express what everyone wants to say on the most special . [and so on] posted by mylittlepoppet at 6:13 PM on January 4, . Not beautiful or rare in every part. Its preservedBy trust and by respect and awe.These are the words Im feeling for.if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'wayfaringweddings_com-leader-1','ezslot_11',109,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-wayfaringweddings_com-leader-1-0'); Two people, yes, two lasting friends.The giving comes, the taking endsThere is no measure for such things.For this all Nature slows and sings. Elizabeth Jennings, Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise., Tell me where you goWhen you look faraway,I find I am too slowTo catch your mood. We hope these adventurous readings on love will help you kick off your marriage! Childhood is where we learn about love, playfulness and the joy of the unknown. Essentially, the ceremony itself states what exactly that commitment means to the couple, what marriage means to the couple. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, Yes. Hes not perfect. With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, This Up-inspired poster reads "you are my greatest adventure" and is totally adorable! Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away From one another once you are agreed That life is only life forevermore Together wing to wing and oar to oar. Robert Frost, And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more., Heres another poem,like all others before and after,dedicated to you.There isnt anything left to be saidbut I will spend my lifetrying to put you into words.You who is every goodness,every optimismand hope.Your love is a better fate for methan anything I could wish for.If you are a part of me,then youre the best part.And if youre separate from me,then you are my destination.But Ive become a weary traveller,so please,let us never be apart.Kamand Kojouri. There alone the skies are ever open for your love; there alone lies the great road ahead.. I think it's radical and courageous and very romantic. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. 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