"...and if I were with my love, I would live forever."

[thanate]

Yet another wedding brainstorming question: We're planning an extremely short ceremony-- procession, vows, look, we're married!, and then actual signing of paperwork. And because signing paperwork isn't that exciting, I wanted to have heuchera do a short reading during that part, which is one of those "what a nice idea" things that um... also requires something to read.

I find that most of my love-related passages are not particularly wedding-appropriate (the same goes for music, actually) and so I'm opening the field for suggestions. Does anyone know of any perhaps 1-3 minute passages from literature or other, appropriate for reading at a wedding? Prose and poetry are both fair game.

Comments

[kittymaru.livejournal.com]

I recited Sonnet 116 at a friend's wedding, but it might be one of those that often gets used?

[akgnome.livejournal.com]

not sure exactly what you're looking for, but there is a lovely souix (or perhaps navajo or other western native american) passage that can be cut down if it is more than 3 minutes..i'll see if i can find it if you are interested

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Please do, if it's not too much trouble. That sounds definitely worth taking a look at.

[heuchera.livejournal.com]

Ahem. I wonder about the wedding appropriateness of these, too, but I like:

"The Wedding in the Courthouse" by Kathleen Norris
http://books.google.com/books?id=7piqpaDi9jEC&pg=PA363&lpg=PA363&dq=the+wedding+in+the+courthouse+kathleen+norris&source=bl&ots=6CgBe2-C3V&sig=g8JwYQB_6jWCSRDLFwSpvgOfuuc&hl=en&ei=sjzESeLBCJWUMfe9zR0&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA363,M1

"Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Fields" by Susan Griffin
http://www.panhala.net/Archive/Love_Should_Grow.html

[hydecat.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I know I've been to weddings where people have read from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, but I'm not familiar with the book so I can't point you to a particular passage.

[jazzfish]

There's Elise Matthesen's Response. Mike Ford's "Declaration of Unity" on the same page is also excellent.

[psychoharlequin.livejournal.com]

Are you getting married?

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Er, yes, in 34 days now... :)