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Readings for a Non-religious ceremony?

melbalalala Posted:

Readings for a Non-religious ceremony?

Id like to give my readers a couple of months with their readings...

Does anyone have any non-religious readings? Or a website with some examples?

ETA: Bump.. still looking for more readings ideas......
brittny817 Posted:

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Posted by melbalalala

Id like to give my readers a couple of months with their readings...

Does anyone have any non-religious readings? Or a website with some examples?


Mel, FM me your work fax number and I will send you 1 non-traditional and 1 spiritual readings that our readers are giving. One is a really cool Native American prayer.

I can do it first thing tomorrow.
melbalalala Posted:

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Bump for the nightime brides!

kewlpuff Posted:

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i saw that a bride had posted a apache blessing the other day... try to google 'apache wedding blessing'
Dee606 Posted:

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How about the Hands Prayer? It is beautiful & makes me cry everytime..

These are the hands of your best friend, young and strong and full of love for you, that are holding yours on your wedding day, as you promise to love each other today, tomorrow and forever.

These are the hands that will work alongside yours as together you build your future.

These are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through the years, and with the slightest touch, will comfort you like not other.

These are the hands that will hold you when fear or grief wracks your mind.

These are the hands that will countless times wipe the tears from your eyes, tears of sorrow and tears of joy.

These are the hands that will tenderly hold your children.

These are the hands that will help you to hold your family as one.

These are the hands that will give you strength when you need it.

And lastly, these are the hands that even when wrinkled and aged will still be reaching for yours, still giving you the same unspoken tenderness with just a touch.
JIFFY Posted:

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Posted by Dee606

How about the Hands Prayer? It is beautiful & makes me cry everytime..

These are the hands of your best friend, young and strong and full of love for you, that are holding yours on your wedding day, as you promise to love each other today, tomorrow and forever.

These are the hands that will work alongside yours as together you build your future.

These are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through the years, and with the slightest touch, will comfort you like not other.

These are the hands that will hold you when fear or grief wracks your mind.

These are the hands that will countless times wipe the tears from your eyes, tears of sorrow and tears of joy.

These are the hands that will tenderly hold your children.

These are the hands that will help you to hold your family as one.

These are the hands that will give you strength when you need it.

And lastly, these are the hands that even when wrinkled and aged will still be reaching for yours, still giving you the same unspoken tenderness with just a touch.


LOVE IT!!! I was just going to suggest it!!
JIFFY Posted:

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Posted by Dee606

How about the Hands Prayer? It is beautiful & makes me cry everytime..

These are the hands of your best friend, young and strong and full of love for you, that are holding yours on your wedding day, as you promise to love each other today, tomorrow and forever.

These are the hands that will work alongside yours as together you build your future.

These are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through the years, and with the slightest touch, will comfort you like not other.

These are the hands that will hold you when fear or grief wracks your mind.

These are the hands that will countless times wipe the tears from your eyes, tears of sorrow and tears of joy.

These are the hands that will tenderly hold your children.

These are the hands that will help you to hold your family as one.

These are the hands that will give you strength when you need it.

And lastly, these are the hands that even when wrinkled and aged will still be reaching for yours, still giving you the same unspoken tenderness with just a touch.
conigs25 Posted:

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I used Rev Deb and she has some GREAT suggestions.
Heres a thread that i started before my wedding

click
melbalalala Posted:

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Posted by conigs25

I used Rev Deb and she has some GREAT suggestions.
Heres a thread that i started before my wedding

click


Im using Rev Deb too! Her readings are ok, but a little too serious for us.

We are definitely doing the hands ceremony, but have two readers and only one reading Any other ideas?
Jenn n Lance Posted:

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Hi Can you FM me the same readings? Thanx!
melbalalala Posted:

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bump..anyone else have any resources for readings?

HamptonsBride Posted:

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how about using a nice love poem?....i am thinking of one in particular something like 'I love you with all the depth of my breath'...have no clue who wrote it...Robert Frostt or Robert Browning perhaps?...they read it at the wedding of Donna & David on the season finale of 90210! Yeah I was a fan back in the day...hahaha

BRod-Cheng Posted:

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I have always loved this poem by E.E. Cummings

I Carry Your Heart With Me

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

ee cummings


BRod-Cheng Posted:

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Posted by HamptonsBride

how about using a nice love poem?....i am thinking of one in particular something like 'I love you with all the depth of my breath'...have no clue who wrote it...Robert Frostt or Robert Browning perhaps?...they read it at the wedding of Donna & David on the season finale of 90210! Yeah I was a fan back in the day...hahaha


That by Elizabeth Barret Browining - ' How do I love thee'

Here it is

XLIII. 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...'
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
melbalalala Posted:

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bump for more ideas!

MimiMcG Posted:

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I Love this sonnet from Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! It is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is not shaken:
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom,
If this be error, and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

I want this as one of my readings, but not sure if the church will allow it because it is not religous, UGH!!!
zenergy47 Posted:

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i know i am have been looking for non-religious readings as well.. i dont want anything super serious its just doesnt fit our character..but we want someting beautful and different. that ee cummings poem is really nice.

FM your e mail address and i can e mail the poems and readings i have come across..i will send them to you
kittythestray Posted:

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These were the 2 I used:

The Velveteen Rabbit (just so you know, this did make a lot of people cry - I don't know if that is a plus or a minus for you )
by Margery Williams

'What is REAL?' asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. 'Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?'

'Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When someone loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'

'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.

'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'

'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why 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 the 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 Apache Song
May the sun bring you new energy by day
May the moon softly restore you by night
May the rain wash away your worries
And the breeze blow new strength into your being
And all the days of your life may you walk
Gently through the world and know its beauty.
Now you will feel no rain,
For each of you will be a shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold
For each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no more loneliness.
You are two bodies
But there is only one life before you.
Go now to your dwelling place
To enter into your days together.
And may your days be good and long on the earth.

This was another one I had saved but didn't use:

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself
But if your love and must needs have desires,
Let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook
That sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart
And give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer
For the beloved in your heart
And a song of praise upon your lips.
~ by Gibran Kahlil Gibran ~

melbalalala Posted:

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So many cute ideas.. bumping for more!!

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