| RELIGIOUS (15 readings)
* Colossians 3:12-14 * 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a * Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 * Ephesians * Genesis 1:26-31 * Genesis 2:18-24 * Jeremiah 31:31-34 * Mark 10:6-9 * Perfect Love ~ Author Unknown * Psalm 128:1-4 * Seven Blessings, The ~ From "The New Jewish Wedding" by Anita Diamant * The Jerusalem Bible, Song of Songs - 2:8-10, 14, 16a; 8:6-7a * The Prayer ~ By St. Francis of Assisi * Traditional Irish Blessing * Wedding Prayer ~ By Robert Louis Stevenson POETRY (32 readings) * A New Beginning ~ By Gwen Frostic * Bridal Song ~ By John Ford * Dove Poem * Excerpts from 100 Love Sonnets ~ By Pablo Neruda * Fidelity ~ By D.H. Lawrence * Hope is the Thing With Feathers ~ Emily Dickinson * Hindu Marriage Poem * How Do I Love Thee? ~ By Elizabeth Barrett Browning * If Thou Must Love Me ~ By Elizabeth Barrett Browning * In Love Made Visible ~ By Mary Swanson * Love ~ By Roy Croft * Love Lives ~ By John Clare * Love's Philosophy ~ By Percy Bysshe Shelley * Marriage ~ By Mary Weston Fordham * My Love ~ By Linda Lee Elrod * My True Love ~ By Sir Phillip Sydney * Passionate Shepherd to His Love, The ~ By Christopher Marlowe * She Walks In Beauty ~ By Lord Byron * somewhere i have never travelled ~ By e.e. cummings * Sonnet 18 ~ By William Shakespeare * Sonnet 116 ~ By William Shakespeare * Sonnet CXVI ~ By William Shakespeare * Sonnet LXIX ~ By Pablo Neruda * Sudden Light ~ By Dante Gabriel Rossetti * 'Til Death Do Us Part ~ By Carol D. Bos * To Althea, from Prison (Last Stanza) ~ By Richard Lovelace * Touched by an Angel ~ By Maya Angelou * True Love ~ Author Unknown * Untitled ~ By Christina Rossetti * Untitled ~ By Walt Whitman * Why Marriage? ~ Author Unknown OTHER (33 readings) * A Gift From The Sea (Excerpt) ~ By Anne Morrow Lindbergh * A History of Love ~ By Diane Ackerman * A Marriage ~ By Michael Blumenthal * Apache Marriage Blessing * Art of Marriage, The ~ Author Unknown * Blessing For A Marriage ~ James Dillet Freeman * Bridge Across Forever, The (Excerpt)  ~ Richard Bach
* Cherokee Prayer * Country of Marriage, The (Excerpt) ~ By Wendell Berry * Eskimo Wedding Song * Excerpts from "A Song For Hiawatha" * Foundations of Marriage ~ By Regina Hill * I Ching (Excerpt) * I Promise ~ By Dorothy Colgan * Letters ~ By Rainer Maria Rilke * Love ~ Author Unknown * Love Is A Great Thing ~ By Thomas a Kempis * Marriage Joins Two People In The Circle Of Its Love ~ Edmund O'Neill * Most Wonderful Of All Things In Life, The ~ By Sir Hugh Walpole * Never Marry But For Love ~ By William Penn * On Love ~ By Thomas a Kempis * On Marriage ~ From The Prophet By Kahlil Gilbran * Prophet, The (Excerpt) ~ By Kahlil Gilbran * Sound of Silence ~ By Raymond J. Baughan * Speak to Us of Love ~ From The Prophet By Kahlil Gilbran * Symposium, The ~ By Plato * Tuesdays With Morrie (Excerpt) ~ By Mitch Albom * Untitled ~ Carl Sandburg * Untitled ~ Author Unknown * Untitled ~ Author Unknown * The Velveteen Rabbit (Excerpt) ~ By Margery Williams * What Is Love? ~ Author Unknown * What of Marriage? ~ From The Prophet ~ By Kahlil Gilbran |