Wedding readings

A bit more from my lit­tle soap­box about Get­ting Grounded when it comes to your wed­ding — I had a lit­tle think about wed­ding read­ings. I write out so many of these in my day job as a cal­lig­ra­pher, I have some firm favourites and some I see which don’t appeal so much to me on a per­sonal level.

The best wed­ding read­ings for me are those which look for­wards from the wed­ding day to the years of mar­riage ahead, and which have a cer­tain depth and matu­rity. They’re worth a read if you’re get­ting bogged down in all the plan­ning and details of your wed­ding day.

Try these for size and let me know what you think!

Favourite wed­ding read­ings for perspective:

An extract from The Vel­veteen Rabbit

Best bit:

… it doesn’t hap­pen often to peo­ple who break eas­ily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be care­fully kept. Gen­er­ally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don’t mat­ter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to peo­ple who don’t understand.’

The Art Of A Good Marriage

Best bits:

Hap­pi­ness in mar­riage is not some­thing that just hap­pens.
It is never being too old to hold hands.
It is never going to sleep angry.
It is not look­ing for per­fec­tion in each other.
It is hav­ing the capac­ity to for­give and forget.

The full texts for these are here: wed­ding read­ings with meaning

Wed­ding read­ings with a shorter perspective…

Chap­ter One of One Thousand

This read­ing is cute, and lovely to have as part of your wed­ding to add a bit of lev­ity… but for me per­son­ally it’s a bit too perky (read it out loud to your­self and you’ll see what I mean!)

On Your Wed­ding Day

Another read­ing which appeals less to be because it’s a bit of a bouncy poem — and more about the mod­ern sig­nif­i­cance of a wed­ding than about marriage.

The full texts for these read­ings are also on this page: wed­ding readings