The readings that you pick for your ceremony set the tone of the event, and it can be hard to choose which one is right for you as a couple! If you’re looking for feel-good readings to choose from, we’ve got your back! Check out our list of 8 sweet ceremony readings and pick your perfect one based on what kind of couple you are!
1. For the couple who believes that home is where the heart is.
“Buried Light” Beau Taplin
Home is not where you are from,
it is where you belong.
Some of us travel the whole world to find it.
Others, find it in a person.
2. For lovers of romantic comedies and pop culture.
Adam Sandler in the Wedding Singer
I want to make you smile whenever you're sad. Carry you around when your arthritis is bad. All I want to do is grow old with you. I'll get your medicine when your tummy aches. Build you a fire if the furnace breaks. Oh it could be so nice, growing old with you. I'll miss you, Kiss you, Give you my coat when you are cold. Need you, Feed you, Even let you hold the remote control. So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink. Put you to bed if you've had too much to drink. I could be the man who grows old with you. I want to grow old with you.
3. For the hilariously analytical and logical couple.
“Gravitation” Albert Einstein
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.”
4. For the quick-witted couple looking for a big laugh.
A Word To Husbands – Ogden Nash
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong admit it;
Whenever you’re right shut up.
5. For those will always be kids at heart.
Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne
If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.
6. For the bookworms
Every Day by David Levithan
This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.
7. For the lovers of musicals.
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, the inexhaustible is requisite.
8. For the hopeless romantics.
A Moment of Happiness, Rumi
A moment of happiness,
you and I sitting on the verandah,
apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.
We feel the flowing water of life here,
you and I, with the garden’s beauty
and the birds singing.
The stars will be watching us,
and we will show them
what it is to be a thin crescent moon.
You and I unselfed, will be together,
indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.
The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar
as we laugh together, you and I.
In one form upon this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land.