Adding a religous component to a civil ceremony?

I think you would need to check with your officiant first but I don't see how including a reading or any description, religious or otherwise, would not be allowed.

You should check with your justice of the peace to see if thats something theyre able to do. I know with mine they arent allowed to hace an undertone of religion at all.

My have never practiced religion, my fiance was raised Catholic but does not practice. So like you we are having a civil ceremony. His family however wanted us to add religious aspects, we declined but they mentioned like his aunt doing a reading. So maybe that would be an idea for you. Have a family member do a reading of some sort, some civil officiants won't read religious (most don't care too much). So talk to your officiant see if they want to, if not ask a family member.

My FH is Catholic (though doesn't practice regularly) and I am Jewish (although I also don't practice regularly), because of this we decided to do a civil ceremony.

We are going to add a reading in, but it won't have any religious intones to it. You can definitely make your reading more religious if you like!

Just check with your officiant, as there are different ceremony packages from what I understand. For example:

Mine is the 'basic' package.. no readings, special ceremonies, etc. We asked them if my FH's sister can do a reading. They almost bumped us up to the next package which includes a reading but decided against it since they wouldn't be the ones reading it.

We did two of the indian traditions part of the service. A poem can be read dedicated to the parents or something nice to remember.