Children's Literature to read at a wedding...?

Question

A good friend of mine is getting married and is looking for some great passages from children's books. Any ideas? She is already thinking the one from the Velveteen Rabbit. She would love all of ya!!

Answer 1

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

Winnie the Pooh

Answer 2

I know it's not a book, but how about "The Owl and the Pussycat".  Its a fairly short poem and is actually about marriage.

Answer 3

look up shel silverstein..........he's a classic and very, very good for both young and old

Answer 4

From The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupéry

"...What does that mean– 'tame'?"

"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."

" 'To establish ties'? "

"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world..."

"I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower...I think that she has tamed me...."

"It is possible." said the fox. "On the Earth one sees all sorts of things."

"Oh, but this is not on the Earth!" said the little prince.

The fox seemed perplexed, and very curious.

"On another planet?"

"Yes."

"Are there hunters on that planet?"

"No."

"Ah, that is interesting! Are there chickens?"

"No."

"Nothing is perfect," sighed the fox. But he came back to his idea. "My life is very monotonous," he said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat..."

Answer 5

Aww, the velveteen rabbit makes me cry every time, haha. Anyway, maybe a Shel Silverstein poem would be good. He has a lot that are cute and really sentimental, too.

Answer 6

I personally feel that children's literature is inappropriate at a wedding. You are now an adult.  It's time to grow up.

Answer 7

Us Two

Wherever I am, there's always Pooh,

There's always Pooh and Me.

Whatever I do, he wants to do,

"Where are you going today?" says Pooh:

"Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too.

Let's go together," says Pooh, says he.

"Let's go together," says Pooh.

"What's twice eleven?" I said to Pooh,

("Twice what?" said Pooh to Me.)

"I think it ought to be twenty-two."

"Just what I think myself," said Pooh.

"It wasn't an easy sum to do,

But that's what it is," said Pooh, said he.

"That's what it is," said Pooh.  

"Let's look for dragons," I said to Pooh.

"Yes, let's," said Pooh to Me.

We crossed the river and found a few -

"Yes, those are dragons all right," said Pooh.

"As soon as I saw their beaks I knew.

That's what they are," said Pooh, said he.

"That's what they are, said Pooh.

"Let's frighten the dragons." I said to Pooh.

"That's right," said Pooh to Me.

"I'm not afraid," I said to Pooh,

And I held his paw and I shouted , "Shoo!

Silly old dragons!" - and off they flew.

"I wasn't afraid," said Pooh, said he,

"I'm never afraid with you."  

So wherever I am, there's always Pooh,

There's always Pooh and Me.

"What would I do?" I said to Pooh,

"If it wasn't for you," and Pooh said: "True,

It isn't much fun for One, but Two

Can stick together," says Pooh, says he.

"That's how it is," says Pooh.