Advice for my wedding

AndyOgy
AndyOgy Posts: 579
edited June 2014 in Commuting chat
It's in a few weeks and I'm nearly done with the planning. However, all of my brain energy has been used up and I need to get some inspiration. I figured that this would be just the place.

My older Sister is to give a reading during the service and I am struggling to find an appropriate poem/passage/reading.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    How about.......

    I'm the trouble starter, punking instigator.
    I'm the fear addicted, danger illustrated.
    I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter,
    you're the firestarter, twisted firestarter.
    I'm the b1tch you hated, filth infatuated.
    Yeah, I'm the pain you tasted, fell intoxicated
    I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter,
    you're the firestarter, twisted firestarter.
    I'm the self-inflicted, punk detonator.
    Yeah, I'm the one invented, twisted animator.
    I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter,
    you're the firestarter, twisted firestarter.
    starter... starter... starter

    Hope this helps!
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  • leeefm
    leeefm Posts: 260
    A bit tongue in cheek...

    http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+3%3A18&version=KJV

    But more seriously; is it a religious reading that you want, or non-religious?
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  • lancew
    lancew Posts: 680
    Religious or civil service?
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  • AndyOgy
    AndyOgy Posts: 579
    Ha ha.

    Most definitely not religious. However, there will be religious types amongst the guests and I am keen to avoid offending them.
  • itboffin
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    We had this read at our wedding. It's Native American - Apache, I believe.

    Now you will feel no rain,
    For each of you will be shelter for the other,
    Now you will feel no cold,
    For each of you will be warmth to the other,
    Now there is no more loneliness,
    For each of you will be company for the other,
    Now you are two persons,
    But there is only one life before you.
    Go to your dwelling,
    Enter into the days of your life together
    And may your days be good and long upon the earth.
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  • Gallywomack
    Gallywomack Posts: 823
    That Captain Corelli's Mandolin bit, suitably bowdlerised. Job's a good'un.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,348
    I did this when I was Best Man at me mates.

    http://allpoetry.com/poem/8518997-Us-Two-by-A.A.-Milne

    If you know the bride it kinda makes sense I s'pose....

    Without wanting to blow my own trumpet you need someone that is going to learn it well enough and also be able to enunciate and act the appropriate bits...
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  • MrSweary
    MrSweary Posts: 1,699
    Read at a thousand and one weddings but still good for getting all the mums (and some dads) in floods of tears.. House of Stone by Carmen Bugan
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    We had this read at our wedding. It's Native American - Apache, I believe.

    Now you will feel no rain,
    For each of you will be shelter for the other,
    Now you will feel no cold,
    For each of you will be warmth to the other,
    Now there is no more loneliness,
    For each of you will be company for the other,
    Now you are two persons,
    But there is only one life before you.
    Go to your dwelling,
    Enter into the days of your life together
    And may your days be good and long upon the earth.

    I had this on the back of the Order of Service
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  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    How about....

    Dont do it!
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  • iPete
    iPete Posts: 6,076
    goonz wrote:
    How about....

    Dont do it!

    flol, my immediate thought was this, the Old School wedding scene...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4C-t18-Vvs

    :lol:
  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    goonz wrote:
    How about....

    Dont do it!

    a few weeks is ample time to find excuses.....
    "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Don't do what friends of my OH were absolutely set on and had to be talked out of. Marriage is a journey together, and the bride-to-be was dead set on having Lear's poem The Owl & The Pussycat read out. It's really not a good poem to read to a bunch of drunken wedding guests at a wedding reception.
  • BigLights
    BigLights Posts: 464
    not a reading, but the best piece of advice I received before my wedding, and was very thankful for, was to make sure you take a few breaks to enjoy it. It'll be over in a flash, and make sure you take the opportunity to step back a couple of times and just take in the scene of all your peoples there. That's what made my memory of the event.
  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    You can't really beat Corinthians 13.
  • DrLex
    DrLex Posts: 2,142
    You can't really beat Corinthians 13.
    Exodus 22:16-17 would give it a run for the money
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,348
    Ezekiel 25:17

    #90s
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    You can't really beat Corinthians 13.

    My Girlfreind of 11 years and the mother of my children (its the same person before you ask) has done this as a reading at two weddings.

    I'll marry her one day I swear (or at least i'll ask).
    "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

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  • bigmonka
    bigmonka Posts: 361
    DrLex wrote:
    You can't really beat Corinthians 13.
    Exodus 22:16-17 would give it a run for the money
    So would Deuteronomy 25:11-12 :wink:
    Cor13 is definitiely read at a lot of weddings (for obvious reasons if you read it).
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Is that the one that goes "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."?

    I do hope so.

    I'll find the one we had - it was quite good as I recall, nicely read by a lady in a nice hat.
  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    We had the lyrics to Let's Do it, Let's Fall in Love (Cole Porter).... If you can get someone good to read it, it works well.
  • bigmonka
    bigmonka Posts: 361
    I like the idea of song lyrics, specially if its a song which means something to you both.
  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    Phil Collins "Easy Lover"?

    maybe not.
    "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    BigMonka wrote:
    I like the idea of song lyrics, specially if its a song which means something to you both.

    Hush little baby, don't say a word
    And never mind that noise you heard
    It's just the beast under your bed,
    In your closet, in your head

    Perfect for the wedding night....
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    BigMonka wrote:
    I like the idea of song lyrics, specially if its a song which means something to you both.


    Really?
    Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street
    From my window I'm staring while my coffee grows cold
    Look over there! (Where?)
    There's a lady that I used to know
    She's married now or engaged or something so I'm told

    Is she really going out with him?
    Is she really gonna take him home tonight?
    Is she really going out with him?
    'Cause if my eyes don't deceive me,
    There's something going wrong around here

    Tonight's the night when I go to all the parties down my street.
    I wash my hair and I kid myself I look real smooth
    Look over there! (Where?)
    Here comes Jeanie with her new boyfriend
    They say that looks don't count for much
    If so, there goes your proof

    Is she really going out with him?
    Is she really gonna take him home tonight?
    Is she really going out with him?
    'Cause if my eyes don't deceive me,
    There's something going wrong around here

    But if looks could kill
    There's a man there who's marked down as dead.
    Cause I've had my fill
    Listen you, take your hands off her head
    I get so mean around this scene

    Is she really going out with him?
    Is she really gonna take him home tonight?
    Is she really going out with him?
    'Cause if my eyes don't deceive me
    There's something going wrong around here

    Obviously best delivered by a former boyfriend of the bride. In an ever-so-slightly uncomfortably edgy tone.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 27,487
    rubertoe wrote:
    You can't really beat Corinthians 13.

    My Girlfreind of 11 years and the mother of my children (its the same person before you ask) has done this as a reading at two weddings.

    I'll marry her one day I swear (or at least i'll ask).

    Hmmmm, if you want the answer to be "yes", it's probably best to at least pretend that you want to, rather than it being something you've been meaning to get round to, along with clearing out the garage ;)

    I'm pretty sure Bible readings are prohibited at civil ceremonies (think the OP stipulated civil wedding) Get a few poetry anthologies out of the library and pick one that you both like that is also fairly easy to read.
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  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    rjsterry wrote:
    rubertoe wrote:
    You can't really beat Corinthians 13.

    My Girlfreind of 11 years and the mother of my children (its the same person before you ask) has done this as a reading at two weddings.

    I'll marry her one day I swear (or at least i'll ask).

    Hmmmm, if you want the answer to be "yes", it's probably best to at least pretend that you want to, rather than it being something you've been meaning to get round to, along with clearing out the garage ;)

    She knows i'll marry her tomorrow, I just dont want to pay for a wedding that is all (i'm tight).
    "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    This was it - quite famous as it turns out.

    A Walled Garden.

    Your marriage should have within it a secret and protected space, open to you alone. Imagine it to be a walled garden, entered by a door to which you only hold the key. Within this garden you will cease to be a mother, father, employee, homemaker or any other of the roles which you fulfil in daily life. Here you can be yourselves, two people who love each other. Here you can concentrate on one another's needs. So take each other's hands and go forth to your garden. The time you spend together is not wasted but invested - invested in your future and nurture of your love.
  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    Basically what I am learning today is that people who ride bikes are genuinely (for the most part) thoroughly nice people.

    Although I knew that already
    "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

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