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Mackenzie
Newbie June 2021 Alberta

Non-religious Readings

Mackenzie, on June 5, 2019 at 16:23 Posted in Wedding ceremony 0 15
Send me your best poems, songs, speeches, anything non-religious we can use for our ceremony!

I want to do a couple of short readings to involve a few important people in the ceremony, but I’m having trouble finding anything I like.

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Latest activity by Steph, on July 2, 2019 at 01:53
  • Steph
    Expert June 2022 Ontario
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    We're having a nonreligious ceremony as well, and we haven't really started planning it yet but we're gathering music lines and movie quotes from our favourites as we come across them. If you guys have a favourite song or movie, maybe that will give you something to add. Or at least some inspiration. Good luck!
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  • K
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    We had All I know About Love by Neil Gaiman read during our ceremony.
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  • Julia
    Frequent user July 2019 Ontario
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    My daughter is reading personal penguin by Sandra Boynton. Its such a cute story.
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  • Monique
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    I just read Tuesday's with Morrie, it was a great book!
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  • Robyn
    Super June 2019 Ontario
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    I wanted to include this one but my FH's priests were horrified at the thought of anything nonreligious. So I'm printing on the back of the menus Smiley smile

    Non-religious Readings 1



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  • Shla
    Devoted October 2021 Ontario
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    This was the reading I did at my brothers wedding.


    A Lovely Love Story

    By Edward Monkton


    The fierce Dinosaur was trapped inside his cage of ice. Although it was cold he was happy in there. It was, after all, his cage.

    Then along came the Lovely Other Dinosaur.
    The Lovely Other Dinosaur melted the Dinosaur’s cage with kind words and loving thoughts.

    “I like this Dinosaur,” thought the Lovely Other Dinosaur. “Although he is fierce, he is also tender and he is funny. He is also quite clever though I will not tell him this for now.”

    “I like this Lovely Other Dinosaur,” thought the Dinosaur. “She is beautiful and she is different and she smells so nice. She is also a free spirit which is a quality I much admire in a dinosaur.”

    “But he can be so distant and so peculiar at times,” thought the Lovely Other Dinosaur. “He is also overly fond of things. Are all Dinosaurs so overly fond of things?”

    “But her mind skips from here to there so quickly,” thought the Dinosaur. “She is also uncommonly keen on shopping. Are all Lovely Other Dinosaurs so uncommonly keen on shopping?”

    “I will forgive his peculiarity and his concern for things,” thought the Lovely Other Dinosaur, “for they are part of what makes him a richly charactered individual.”

    “I will forgive her skipping mind and her fondness for shopping,” thought the Dinosaur, “for she fills our life with beautiful thoughts and wonderful surprises. Besides, I am not unkeen on shopping either.”

    Now the Dinosaur and the Lovely Other Dinosaur are old. Look at them. Together they stand on the hill telling each other stories and feeling the warmth of the sun on their backs.

    And that, my friends, is how it is with love.



    Let us all be Dinosaurs and Lovely Other Dinosaurs together. For the sun is warm. And the world is a beautiful place.

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  • Hélène
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    Love Robert Fulghum!

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  • Kelsie
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    Oh my gosh - this book is amazing.
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  • DrB
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    We used “he’s not perfect” by bob marley and “having a coke with you” by Frank o’Hara
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  • Valérie
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    I found this one on Pinterest (so random!):Non-religious Readings 2



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    These are all great, a couple especially the last one made me a bit teary. Thanks for sharing.
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  • Candace
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    We used this one for our ceremony because we thought it was beautiful

    "Union"Non-religious Readings 3



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  • Hélène
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    And one more that I really like and have considered for my wedding:


    Wild Awake by Hilary T. Smith

    “People are like cities: We all have alleys and gardens and secret rooftops and places where daisies sprout between the sidewalk cracks, but most of the time all we let each other see is a postcard glimpse of a skyline or a polished square. Love lets you find those hidden places in another person, even the ones they didn’t know were there, even the ones they wouldn’t have thought to call beautiful themselves.”


    Now I'll stop spamming your thread. Smiley winking

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  • Hélène
    Devoted September 2019 Alberta
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    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 a lot of trouble. If you don’t know how to compromise, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can’t talk openly about what goes on between you, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don’t have a common set of values in life, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.”

    “And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?”

    Yes?

    “Your belief in the importance of your marriage.”

    He sniffed, then closed his eyes for a moment.

    “Personally,” he sighed, his eyes still closed, “I think marriage is a very important thing to do, and you’re missing a lot if you don’t try it.”

    He ended the subject by quoting a poem he believed in like a prayer: “Love each other or perish.”

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  • Hélène
    Devoted September 2019 Alberta
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    I used this one for my first wedding. We cut the first part and started at "... let there be spaces in your togetherness..."


    On Marriage

    BY KAHLIL GIBRAN


    Almitra spoke again and said, And
    what of Marriage, master?
    And he answered saying:
    You were born together, and together you
    shall be forevermore.
    You shall be together when the white
    wings of death scatter your days.
    Ay, you shall be together even in the
    silent memory of God.
    But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
    And let the winds of the heavens dance
    between you.

    Love one another, but make not a bond
    of love:
    Let it rather be a moving sea between
    the shores of your souls.
    Fill each other’s cup but drink not from
    one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat
    not from the same loaf.
    Sing and dance together and be joyous,
    but let each one of you be alone,
    Even as the strings of a lute are alone
    though they quiver with the same music.

    Give your hearts, but not into each
    other’s keeping.
    For only the hand of Life can contain
    your hearts.
    And stand together yet not too near
    together:
    For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
    And the oak tree and the cypress grow
    not in each other’s shadow.

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