need help with a wedding reading

[lil_acorn]

DH has been asked to do a reading at a dear friend's wedding this summer. Can anyone offer any recommendations for a non-religious reading that would be appropriate.

I like Khalil Gibran's the prophet but probably overdone...

[StantonHyde]

We had Shakespeare--How Lovely is the Month of May, that love sonnet. It was lovely, but obviously I can't remember the name :-)

[Gena]

There's a bunch here:

http://weddings.about.com/od/yourwed...ngsLibrary.htm

[elephantmeg]

we did the Madeline l'Engle one
From "The Irrational Season" by Madeleine L'Engle
But ultimately there comes a moment when a decision must be made. Ultimately two people who love each other must ask themselves how much they hope for as their love grows and deepens, and how much risk they are willing to take…It is indeed a fearful gamble…Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take…If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession, but participation…It takes a lifetime to learn another person…When love is not possession, but participation, then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling, and which implies such risk that it is often rejected.

[janeybwild]

Don't the bride and groom usually pick the reading?

[lil_acorn]

no - they told DH he could do one of his choosing.

I was laughing about the idea of doing the princess bride marriage speech :-)

[truly scrumptious]

Pablo Neruda. We had one of his love poems as a reading at our wedding. It was beautiful.

[Aishe]

I second the Pablo Neruda rec. And Tin Wedding Whistle by Ogden Nash is pretty charming.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tin-wedding-whistle/

[erosenst]

While the Kahlil Gibran one is done/overdone - I bet I've only heard it at...three?...weddings and really like it.

[erosenst]

While the Kahlil Gibran one is done/overdone - I bet I've only heard it at...three?...weddings and really like it.