'Til death do us part
~ By Carol D. Bos ~ I hope it is decades before death parts us But I don’t know what God has in mind I pray that he’ll let us be happy always But I can’t comprehend…
Readings
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it…
A history of love
Love. What a small word we use for an idea so immense and powerful it has altered the flow of history, calmed monsters, kindled works of art, cheered the forlorn,…
A marriage
You are holding up a ceiling with both arms. It is very heavy, but you must hold it up, or else it will fall down on you. Your arms are tired, terribly tired, and,…
A New Beginning
On this earth there is a oneness A rhythmic flow through everything that lives The things with roots and stems and leaves The things with shells and fins and furs…
Apache marriage blessing
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be the shelter for each other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be the warmth for the other. Now you…
Blessing for a marriage
May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding. May you…
Bridal song
Comforts lasting, loves increasing, Like soft hours never ceasing: Plenty’s pleasure, peace complying, Without jars, or tongues envying; Hearts by holy union…
Cherokee prayer
God in heaven above please protect the ones we love. We honor all you created as we pledge our hearts and lives together. We honor mother-earth – and ask for our…
Colossians 3:12-14
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint…
Dove poem
Two doves meeting in the sky Two loves hand in hand eye to eye Two parts of a loving whole Two hearts and a single soul Two stars shining big and bright Two fires…
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls…
Ephesians
Submit yourselves one to another as the fear of God. Wives, show reverence for your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as…
Eskimo love song
You are my husband My feet shall run because of you My feet dance because of you My heart shall beat because of you My eyes see because of you My mind thinks…
Excerpt from "a song for hiawatha"
Come join us in celebration, those who love sunshine on meadow Who love shadow of the forest, love the wind among the branches and the palacades of pine trees, and…
Excerpt from "The Gift from the Sea"
~ By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~ When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is…
Excerpt from "the prophet"
~ By Kahlil Gilbran ~ Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your…
Excerpt from 100 love sonnets
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret,…
Excerpt from the Velveteen Rabbit
~ 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.…
Excerpt from Tuesdays with Morrie
~ By Mitch Albom ~ “Still,” Morrie said, “there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don’t respect the other person, you’re gonna have…
Fidelity
Man and woman are like the earth, that brings forth flowers in summer, and love, but underneath is rock. Older than flowers, older than ferns, older than…
Foundations of marriage
Love, trust, and forgiveness are the foundations of marriage. In marriage, many days will bring happiness, while other days may be sad. But together, two hearts can…
Genesis 1:26-31
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the…
Genesis 2:28-24
The Lord God said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him.” So the Lord God formed out of the ground various wild animals…
Hindu marriage poem
You have become mine forever. Yes, we have become partners. I have become yours. Hereafter, I cannot live without you. Do not live without me. Let us share the…
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could…
How do i live thee
HOW DO I LOVE THEE ~ By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~ How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach,…
I ching
~ Excerpt ~ When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze. And when two people understand each other in their…
I love you for what you are...
TITLE UNKNOWN ~ By Carl Sandburg ~ I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as…
I Promise
to give you the best of myself and to ask of you no more than you can give. I promise to respect you as your own person and to realise that your interests, desires…