Wedding Poems of Love 5

Sonnets from the Portuguese, XIV
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say...(more)

"Beauty and Love"
by Andrew Young

Beauty and love are all my dream...(more)

Wedding Poems of Love 4

"A Red, Red Rose"
by Robert Burns

O my luve's like a red, red rose.
That's newly sprung in June...(more)

Wedding Poems of Love 3

"Beautiful Dreamer"
by Stephen Foster

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Wedding Poems of Love 2

"It's All I Have to Bring Today"
by Emily Dickinson

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Wedding Poems of Love

"Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond"
by E. E. Cummings

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Non-Religous Wedding Readings #2

Love's Philosophy
by Percy Shelley

The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;

The winds of heaven mix forever,
With a sweet emotion...(more)

The Married Lover
by Coventry Patmore

WHY, having won her, do I woo?
Because her spirit's vestal grace
Provokes me always to pursue,
But, spirit-like, eludes embrace;
Because her womanhood is such...(more)

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
by Christopher Marlowe

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields...(more)

Non-Religous Wedding Readings

Eskimo Love Song

You are my husband, you are my wife
My feet shall run because of you...(more)

Hope Is the Thing With Feathers
by Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all...(more)

The Good-Morrow
by John Donne

I wonder by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved ? were we not weaned till then ?
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly ?
Or snorted we in...(more)

Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
by Thomas Moore

Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,
Which I gaze on so fondly to-day,
Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms,
Live fairy-gifts fading away,
Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art,
Let thy loveliness fade as it will...(more)

World Wedding Readings

Irish Blessing

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields...(more)


The Prophet
by Kahil Gibran

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness...(more)

Fidelity
by D.H. Lawrence

Man and woman are like the earth, that brings forth flowers
in summer, and love, but underneath is rock...(more)

Shakespearean Wedding Readings

Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love...(more)

Love's Labour's Lost, 4.3.327

But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,
Lives not alone immured in the brain;...(more)

Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:...(more)

"The Art of Marriage"

"The Art Of Marriage"
by Wilferd A. Peterson

Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens.
A good marriage must be created.
In the art of marriage the little things are the big things...(more)

Romantic Wedding Readings

"The Magic of Love"

by Helen Steiner Rice

Love is like magic, and it always will be,
For love still remains life's sweet mystery...(more)

"Friendship"
by Judy Bielicki

It is often said that it is love that makes the world go round. However, without doubt, it is friendship which keeps our spinning existence on an even keel. True friendship ...(more)

"Marriage Joins Two People in the Circle of Its Love"
by Edmund O'Neil

Marriage is a commitment to life, to the best that two people can find and bring out in each other. It offers opportunities...(more)

Unconventional Wedding Readings

"Wedding Song (There Is Love)"

Paul Stookey

He is now to be among you at the calling of your hearts
Rest assured this troubadour is acting on his part
The union of your spirits here has caused him to remain...(more)

Sonnets from the Portuguese
"XLIII"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...(more)