wedding address/reading

[colly]

My eldest son is getting married in the summer and has asked his mum (that's my mrs) if she would like to give a reading at the civil ceremony.
Any suggestions?

She is trying to avoid things that are too 'preachy' , stuff that sounds like a list of do's and don't s, any anything that is cloying and vomit inducing.

We have narrowed it down a bit and have a couple passages in mind but any fresh ideas would be appreciated.

 

[BrumJim]

Captain Corelli's Mandolin has some good passages in it.

 

[User482]

We actually saw this in a book of readings:

I wanna be your vacuum cleaner
Breathing in your dust
I wanna be your ford Cortina
I will never rust
If you like your coffee hot
Let me be your coffee pot
You call the shots
I wanna be yours​

I wanna be your raincoat
For those frequent rainy days
I wanna be your dreamboat
When you want to sail away
Let me be your teddy bear
Take me with you everywhere
I don’t care
I wanna be yours​

I wanna be your electric meter
I will not run out
I wanna be the electric heater
You’ll get cold without
I wanna be your setting lotion
Hold your hair in deep devotion
Deep as the deep Atlantic ocean
That’s how deep is my devotion.​

 

[Durian]

We actually saw this in a book of readings:

I wanna be your vacuum cleaner​

Breathing in your dust​

I wanna be your ford Cortina​

I will never rust​

If you like your coffee hot​

Let me be your coffee pot​

You call the shots​

I wanna be yours​

I wanna be your raincoat​

For those frequent rainy days​

I wanna be your dreamboat​

When you want to sail away​

Let me be your teddy bear​

Take me with you everywhere​

I don’t care​

I wanna be yours​

I wanna be your electric meter​

I will not run out​

I wanna be the electric heater​

You’ll get cold without​

I wanna be your setting lotion​

Hold your hair in deep devotion​

Deep as the deep Atlantic ocean​

That’s how deep is my devotion.​

Yep. I think that counts as vomit inducing!!!

 

[Night Train]

Could keep it humorous.

"Now that they are legally married...
Quick! Run, before she changes her mind!"


I think someone said something similar at my wedding.

 

[BrumJim]

1 Corinthians 13 is always a good one. I read it at my sister's wedding 30 years ago, and again at her 25th anniversary. I don't think it is too religious - I've cut and pasted it from google:

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror;then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Won't get away with that for a Civil Ceremony. Strictly no religious content.

 

[Dora]

Can I suggest this thread:
indiebride.com
Some rubbish there, but some good ones too.

OOH, and here:
www.instantforever.com
(the top one on thast page is cute)

 

[Dave Davenport]

Mrs D read this at our daughters wedding;

What is Marriage?
(Anonymous)

What is marriage?
Marriage is more than the exchange of rings
and the sharing of a household;
It is much more than just living together.
It is the desire to truly want to know and
understand another human being;
to feel and share in that person's
happiness, as well as their pain.
Marriage is to never feel alone;
but rather, to know that you always
have a friend; a partner in life that
you can laugh and cry with.
To know that you always have that
special someone to share your
innermost thoughts and fears,
and know that you will be heard.
Marriage is helping your partner to be
the absolute best that they can be,
while still being able to experience
your own need and goals.
Marriage is love;
true love that goes far beyond passion;
It is a love that you can reach for
in times of crisis as well as joy,
and know it will be there
to comfort and to share. ​

 

[colly]

Colly, I also meant to say many congratulations

Thank you RM.
Funny, he is the eldest but he will be the last to shift out. I have been informed that my daughter who is the youngest is looking at 2014 for getting hitched.

Thanks to one and all for the pointers and suggestions. There is a lot out there but finding something which is right isn't so easy.

I rather like DD's above but my Mrs will have the final say.

I had a go at writing something myself and it sounded fantastic, brilliant, meaningful, and just right.
In my head anyway.

Reading it out loud was another matter. It sounded bottom clinchingly embarrassing and utterly dreadful.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

not much help I know but on the occassions I have been asked to make aspeach all i did was have a few bullet points in my head then make the rest up as I stood up so to speak. I was told it came across as genuine, friendly, funny and and above all natural and not prepared. If the majority of th egroup are friends family and know the speaker they will appreciate this 'seat of the pants' approach I feel.

 

[colly]

not much help I know but on the occassions I have been asked to make aspeach all i did was have a few bullet points in my head then make the rest up as I stood up so to speak. I was told it came across as genuine, friendly, funny and and above all natural and not prepared. If the majority of th egroup are friends family and know the speaker they will appreciate this 'seat of the pants' approach I feel.

I think my Mrs would do something like that if it were say a speech at the reception. She is OK with public speaking and can say things from the heart without being self concious about it. But this is an address during the ceremony itself so she wants it to be a little more organised.
At least that's what I am told. What do I know??