Whether your wedding is religious or non-religious, one of these passages just might be the beautiful addition to the ceremony you’ve been seeking. Read on for 48 wedding readings, from poems, literature, songs, film, religious works, and more. ...
From spiritual to songs to literature to movies, choose the best wedding readings to celebrate your to-be-weds for a ceremony moment to remember.
If you're planning a Christian wedding ceremony, you may want to incorporate some Bible verses into your nuptials. While the Bible does include verses on love, marriage, and weddings, it doesn't outline any specific marriage vows—but you (and your officiant!) can still reference some religi...
As for where to look forunique wedding readings, Gerald says he has used everything from Corinthians to Bob Dylan. Passages from the Bible, poems, children’s stories, novels, song lyrics, and even a family story, can all be excellent resources. You can also ask family or friends for rec...
From Away in a Manger to God Save the Queen, and the famous Bible passage on love, 1 Corinthians 13, to Tennyson’s Crossing the Bar, it has passages suitable for every occasion, and has all you need to plan a baptism, a wedding or, should the need arise, a funeral. ...
inevitably but rightly, one of the critics in the blurbs identifies with Hogarth’s famous prints of 18th-century London. The prose is beautifully styled, moving between short epigrammatic conversations, terse sections of exposition, brutal graphic detail, and passages of great lyricism without any ...
"A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be....
I didn’t even jot any pages numbers on the inside back cover, bits I liked or passages to go back to, threads I was following or (my usual bare minimum) a likely candidate for the title and lead-in quotation for a possible blog post. (I had to leaf through it again to find one...
And for those of you who do not plan on pitching anytime soon — or, indeed, ever, if you can possibly avoid it — please hang tight, either way. As I may PERHAPS have intimated before, the essential skills a writer uses for creating a pitch and crafting a query are, if not the ...
First, the writing really is cheesy (with some exceptional passages interspersed). I invited comment on the “literary merit” of the book, and one student said that every time she came to one of his emphatic one-sentence paragraphs she heard the Law & Order“da-DUH” scene-changer in ...