Wedding Reading of the Day

What is Love?

Love is just not looking at each other and saying "You're wonderful".There are times when we are anything but wonderful.
Love is looking out in the same direction. It is linking our strength to pull a common load. It is pushing together towards the far horizons, hand in hand.
Love is knowing that when our strength falters, we can borrow the strength of someone who cares. Love is a strange awareness that our sorrows will be shared and made lighter by sharing; that joys will be enriched and multiplied by the joy of another.
Love is knowing someone else cares that we are not alone in life.

Walter Rinder

Wedding Reading of the Day

Today's reading is taken from “The Art of a Good Marriage”, by Wilferd Arlan Peterson

"A good marriage must be created. In 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 having a mutual sense of values, and common objectives.

It is standing together and facing the world.

It is forming a circle that gathers in the whole family.

It is speaking words of appreciation, and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways.

It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.

It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow.

It is a common search for the good and the beautiful.

It is not only marrying the right person -- it is being the right partner."

*J*

Wedding Reading of the Day

I'm going to keep this one short and to the point, given my current sleep-deprived state.

The following is from the I Ching, and I love it so much I've posted it on the front page of my business website.

"When two people are at one

in their inmost hearts

They shatter even the strength of iron

or of bronze;

And when two people understand each other

in their inmost hearts

Their words are sweet and strong

like the fragrance of orchids."

Taken from the I Ching

Wedding Reading of the Day

Time for a new category!

A wedding ceremony is a very special and personal occasion, and it can be difficult to find appropriate readings or poems which a couple feels truly reflects their views and feelings.

I'm a sucker for soppy poetry, so have been researching some of the most popular readings for wedding ceremonies, both religious and non-religious and will start posting them here.

The following passage is taken from "The Rainbow", by D.H. Lawrence

"Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anybody could have done it. What had he known, but the long marital embrace with his wife! Curious, that this was what his life amounted to! At any rate, it was something, it was eternal. He would say so to anybody, and be proud of it. He lay with his his wife in his arms and she was still his fulfilment, just the same as ever. And that was the be-all and the end-all. Yes, and he was proud of it."

*J*