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Catherine)Kentridge)
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Here are some readings that couples have used to make their ceremony even more
special and personal.
From this day forward
(Author unknown)
From this day forward, let us laugh together, and plan together,
let us find our favorite places, and go together...
Let us enjoy the sunshine, and the rain,
being alone together, and in crowds together...
From this day forward, together,
Let us love!
Let us walk together
Let us walk together yet not as one, but such that our shadows are separate and distinct,
such that our souls are unbound and free
Let us share our time, yet do not give all your time, nor take all of mine for in order
to develop to the fullest, to be free, we must have solitude and individuality.
Let me wander in solitude, when I need to be alone, yet be near, when I need you.
Let us share our love.
Give freely of your love, but do not smother me, my soul must breathe a free air.
Take my love, but do not demand it, for love given of obligation, is stale and without life.
Let us share our lives.
Share my life, but do not try to shape it.
Let me share your life, but do not let it revolve around me.
Let us share ourselves.
Accept me as I am, do not attempt to change me to fit your dreams.
Respect me for what I am, not for what I was or one day may be.
Share yourself with me, but do not allow me to limit your freedom or bind your soul.
Let us share our minds, thoughts, goals, values and dreams.
Let us develop these within ourselves without restriction or loss of freedom
Thus our two free souls may wander together as they develop in freedom.
As we share our lives, as we walk through life together, know my love is yours,
but not my soul for it must be free.
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A Favourite Blessing
May you love deeply, laugh heartily, practise patience, and smile often.
May you dream together, grow, be crazy, give, give in, and trust to take.
May you see many sunrises, listen to the rain, savour special moments,
walk gently through the world and know its beauty.
May you discover each other, listen carefully, and always have open hearts.
May happiness be your companion, and together may your days be good and long upon the earth
From 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 you should ever part.
Because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness,
it is not excitement,
it is not the promulgation of eternal passion.
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.
Those that truly love, have roots that grow towards each other underground,
And when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches
They find that they are one tree and not two.
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The Elements of Love
May your Love be like the earth
Rich, natural, and deeply rooted
Strong as rock yet soft as sand
Always growing
And always patient
May your Love be like fire
Passionate, intense, and energetic
A flame that never dies
As radiant as the morning sun
And as warm as an evening embrace
May your Love be like water
Moving, constantly changing
Never still, never stagnant
As vast as the ocean
And as fresh as a spring's rain
May your Love be like air
The sharing of dreams, thoughts, and
emotions
Always fragrant, always carefree
Found in the breeze of a whisper,
Or in the breath of a kiss
May your Love be like all four elements
physically, emotionally, mentally and
spiritually intertwined
To create the perfect balance,
And to craft the perfect ribbon
For to bind these two hearts into one
Instructions for Life in the
New Millenium
By His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama
“Take into account that great love
and great achievements involve
great risk.
And that a loving atmosphere in your
home is the foundation for your life.
Be gentle with the earth, be gentle with
one another.
When disagreements come remember
always to protect the spirit of
your union.
When you realize you’ve made a
mistake, take immediate steps to
correct it.
Remember that the best relationship is
one in which your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
So love yourselves, love one another,
love all that is your life together and all
else will follow.”
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Sonnet 18
By William Shakespeare!
!
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and
more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling
buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short
a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of
heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair
thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou growest.
So long as men can breathe or
eyes can see,
So long lives this
and this gives life to thee.
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Congratulations! Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away!
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You’re on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the couple who’ll decide where to go.
You’ll look up and down streets. Look ‘em over with care.
About some you will say, “We don’t choose to go there.”
With your heads full of brains and your shoes full of feet,
You’re too smart to go down, any not-so-good street.
And you may not find any you’ll want to go down.
In that case, of course, you’ll head straight out of town.
It’s opener there
in the wide open air,
Out there things can happen and frequently do
to people as brainy and footsy as you.
And when things start to happen, don’t worry. Don’t stew.
Just go right along. You’ll start happening too.
OH! THE PLACES YOU’LL GO!
You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights!
You’ll join the high fliers who soar to great heights!
You won’t lag behind, because you’ll have all the speed.
You’ll pass the whole gang, and you’ll soon take the lead.
Wherever you fly you’ll be best of the best.
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
Except when you don’t.
Because sometimes, you won’t.
You’ll get mixed up of course, as you already know.
You’ll get mixed up with so many strange birds as you go.
So be sure when you step. Step with great care and great tact
and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
And will you succeed? Yes! You will indeed!
(98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.)
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Oh the Places You’ll
Go - Dr Seuss
(A variation is to create your
own Dr. Seuss-inspired
wedding poem.)
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An Apache Blessing
Now you will feel no storms,
for each of you will be shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold,
for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no loneliness,
for each of you is companion to the other,
You are two persons,
but there is one life before you, and one home.
Turn together to look at the road you travelled,
to reach this---the hour of your happiness.
It stretches behind you into the past.
Look to the future that lies ahead.
A long and winding, adventure-filled road,
whose every turn means discovery,
new hopes, new joys, new laughter,
and a few shared tears.
May happiness be your companion,
May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead;
And through all the years to come.
Go this day to your dwelling place
and enter into your days together.
May your days be good and long upon the earth.
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A Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindberg
When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from
moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to.
And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow
of life, of love, of relationships.
We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never
return.
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.
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in
hoping, even.
Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward
to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and
accepting it as it is now.
For relationships, too, must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here
and now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually
visited and abandoned by the tides.
One must accept the security of the winged life, of the ebb and flow of intermittency.
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Let’s grow old together
Let's grow old together... beginning with today.
Let's work slowly with each other and build a relationship that
we can both enjoy being a part of.
Let's share love and understand that neither of us is perfect;
we are both subject to human frailties.
Let's hold each other close and whisper through the night-pledging our love, honouring our commitment.
Let's encourage each other to pursue our dreams, even when we're weary from trying.
Let's expect the best that we both have to give and still love
when we fall short of our expectations.
Let's be friends and respect each other's individual personality
and give one another room to grow.
Let's be candid with each other and point out strengths and weaknesses.
Let's understand each other's personal philosophy, even if we don't agree.
Let's lie awake long into the night sharing our innermost secrets.
Let's be friends as well as lovers.
Let's laugh at time and plan with each other and wonder how we ever got along
without this love we've found.
Let's never take for granted these moments that we've shared, but always be
reminded of how intensely we have learned to live, how completely we
have learned to love.
Let's grow old together... and look back on life and smile.
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