Ideas for readings for your ceremony

Poetry and Readings

Having a reading or poetry included in your ceremony is a wonderful way to add to your personality to the ceremony.   You can have your officiant, members of your wedding party, or a wedding guest be included in the ceremony by have them do a reading.

• To Be One with Each Other By George Eliot
• 1 Corinthians 13:4­13
• An Apache Blessing
• Kahil Gibran on Marriage
• The Prophet by Kahil Gibran
• How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Love's Philosophy by Percy Shelley
• Irish Blessing
• I Ching
• Fidelity by D.H. Lawrence
• Eskimo Love Song
• Why Marriage? by Mari Nichols
• Hope Is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson
• Sonnet 116 By William Shakespeare
• Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? by William Shakespeare
• To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
• A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
• i carry your heart with me by e. e. cummings
• The Rose in the Deeps of His Heart by William Butler Yeats
• Marriage Morning by Alfred Tennyson
• Wondrous Moment by Alexander Pushkin
• Love Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda
• On the Balcony by D.H. Lawrence
• My Love's A Match by Alfred P. Graves
• There is a Lady Sweet and Kind by Thomas Ford
• It's All I Have to Bring To­day by Emily Dickinson
• Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• I Love Thee by Elizabeth Acton
• At Last by Elizabeth Akers Allen
• My Suburban Girl by Samuel Alfred Beadle
• My True Love Has My Heart by Philip Sidney
• Japanese Tanka by Yosano Akiko
• The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
• Hindu Marriage Poem
• Shoshone Indian Love Poem
• Eskimo Love Song
• On the River Tchou by Tu Fu
• From Kuan Tao­Sheng
• From Jalal Al­Din Rumi
• From "Gift from the Sea" by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• From Plato's Symposium
• From Baal Shem Tov
• From the "Song of Solomon", King James Bible version