need ideas: interesting readings for ceremony?

Hi everyone!

I'm wondering if any of you have ideas for interesting ceremony readings. We're not religious (neither are our families) so there are no specific expectations/requirements. I know that a lot of people use Gibran (sp?) or Shakespeare or the Apache Wedding Blessing. Those things are absolutely great, but I'm also looking for something a bit quirky/unusual. I guess I was always that dorky black-wearing alterno-kid in high school (heh).

Any ideas are welcome! Thanks!

Here is one we are using. The other one is the corinthians one from the bible!!

Art of Marriage


The little things are the big things.
It is never being too old to hold hands.
It is remembering to say 'I love you' at least once a day.

It is never going to sleep angry.
It is at no time taking the other for granted;
the courtship should not end with the honeymoon,
it should continue through all the years.

It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives.
It is standing together facing the world.
It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family.
It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude
of duty or sacrifice,
but in the spirit of joy.

It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating
gratitude in thoughtful ways.
It is not expecting the husband to wear a halo or the wife to have wings of an
angel.
It is not looking for perfection in each other.

It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a
sense of humor.
It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.
It is giving each other an atmosphere in
which each can grow.

It is finding room for the things of the spirit.
It is a common search for the good and
the beautiful.
It is establishing a relationship in which the independence is equal, dependence is mutual and
the obligation is reciprocal.
It is not only marrying the right partner,
it is being the right partner.

Thanks you two! Julz, I e-mailed you. Not familiar with the whole forum mail thing so I hope I did it right!

I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell. I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains - but if I have no love, I am nothing. I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burnt -but if I have no love, this does me no good. Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail. Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues but they will cease. There is knowledge, but it will pass. For our gifts of knowledge and inspired massages are only partial; But when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear. When I was a child, my speech, my feelings, and thinking were those of a child; Now that I am a man, I have no more use for childish ways. What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; Then we shall see face to face. What I know now is only partial; Then it will be complete - as complete as God's knowledge of me. Meanwhile these three remain; faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.

Thanks JZNCK! I bookmarked that website...