We need a Wedding Poem!!

Question

We are getting married in April and our friend has agreed to read a poem for us in the ceremony, but we can't choose one! Has anyone got any suggestions? We can not have a religious one as we are having a civil ceremony. I liked footprints but we are not allowed it. If anyone has any suggestions at all We would be ever so grate full. The more suggestions the better please. Thank you for your help in advance.

Answer 1

Email me for a few.

Answer 2

William Shakespears Sonnet 18

"Shall i compare thee to a summers day?

thou art more lovely and more temperate:

rough winds do shake the darling buds of may,

and summers lease hath all too short a date......"

OR Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese

"How do i love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love three to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of being and ideal Grace..........."

OR WB Yeats He wishes for the cloths of Heaven

"Had i the heavens embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with golden and silver light, the blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and the half light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But i, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

You will find the full poems if you search there titles on google the last one is the whole poem and I have to say that one is by far my favourite!!

Good luck with your wedding.

Answer 3

Why Marriage? by Mari Nichols

Because to the depths of me, I long to love one person,

With all my heart, my soul, my mind, my body...

Because I need a forever friend to trust with the intimacies of me,

Who won't hold them against me,

Who loves me when I'm unlikable,

Who sees the small child in me, and

Who looks for the divine potential of me...

Because I need to cuddle in the warmth of the night

With someone who thanks God for me,

With someone I feel blessed to hold...

Because marriage means opportunity

To grow in love in friendship...

Because marriage is a discipline

To be added to a list of achievements...

Because marriages do not fail, people fail

When they enter into marriage

Expecting another to make them whole...

Because, knowing this,

I promise myself to take full responsibility

For my spiritual, mental and physical wholeness

I create me,

I take half of the responsibility for my marriage

Together we create our marriage...

Because with this understanding

The possibilities are limitless.

Answer 4

Take yourself over to www.poemsforfree.com/wedpo.html and you'll find tons to choose from!  Best of Luck