reading/ poem thread

Butterflygirl started one on BHB but it never reeally caught on but i know here on the 05 board, we like a challenge


Post any readings (religious or not) or poems that you think other brides would like to use

I'll start the 05 one if thats ok?

Our Mother
Author Unknown
You are the mother I received
The day I wed your son.
And I just want to thank you, Mum
For all the things you've done.
You've given me a gracious man
With whom I share my life.
You are his loving mother and
I his lucky wife.
You used to pat his little head,
And now I hold his hand.
You raised in love a little boy
And gave to me a man.

To my parents on my wedding day

You showed me how to stand up tall
You taught me that God's there through it all
I was your first, I made you a proud Mom and Dad
Now we look at the good and bad times that we had

You always told me to lead a good life
Well now I'm going to be a wife
You weren't ready for this day to come
Now I ask that you'll love him like a son

On this day as Daddy walked my down the aisle
I looked at you Mom and remember that I have your lovely smile
People used to tell me that I looked like you
And I was always trying to prove it wasn't true

But now as I look back, I'm happy
For you helped build the woman in me
You taught me that beauty is on the inside
Well someone saw that beauty and took me as a bride

SO I thank you both on this special day
And I hope you accept my loving husband
Because he loves your daughter in every way
And someday we'll pass the love onto our children

i think we will ask FH's grandmother to open our mass with this


WEDDING PRAYER
~ By Robert Louis Stevenson ~

Lord, behold our family here assembled.
We thank you for this place in which we dwell,
for the love that unites us,
for the peace accorded us this day,
for the hope with which we expect the morrow,
for the health, the work, the food,
and the bright skies that make our lives delightful;
for our friends in all parts of the earth.

Amen