Wedding Verses For Your Wedding
Wedding readings, such as wedding verses, are able to set the mood of the ceremony —- be it romantic, traditional, contemporary, literary, instructive or sentimental. They can enhance a best man’s speech or toast since they are able to add eloquence, sentiment, or humor – which everyone can understand and relate to. Also, the use of wedding verses is one great way to personalize wedding invitations and wedding programs.
Why Use Wedding Verses
Everyone would want their wedding day to be special and would stand out from all the rest. Having the right reading and perfectly romantic verses on your wedding ceremony can definitely make a difference. Wedding verses can express feelings which we may find hard to communicate in a lyrical way – that doesn’t sound too cliché.
Most couples used excerpts from Kahlil Gibran as their wedding verses, but there are many other verses which are just meaningful and perhaps more suitable. Familiar Bible verses also are quite popular, such as the I Corinthians’ “Love is patient. Love is kind. Love never fails.” Ephesians 5:22 and Mark 10:9 are also classic choices.
Wedding verses can also be penned by a friend or a wedding verse writer. There is no such rule about what can and cannot be read at your wedding. However, it is still important to keep in mind that the verses should also be appropriate to the style or theme of the wedding ceremony, or the atmosphere you want to create.
What To Include In Personalized Wedding Verses
When deciding to hire a wedding verse writer, it is important to constantly coordinate with him/her to achieve the perfect wedding verses to be used in your wedding ceremony.
The wedding verses you want to incorporate in your wedding ceremony can be as unique as you and your fiance’s relationship. They can reflect your growing love for each other, as well as the priceless comfort that comes from being able to rely on the special person in your life. One way to get more creative with your wedding verses is to include a brief summary of the special moments of your lives as a couple. Whatever you can decide on, these wedding verses can say so much about your relationship with each other.
Also, wedding verses can be humorous and can depict the lighter and funnier side of your relationship. A sense of humor can definitely add dimensions to any celebrations.
How Wedding Verses Can Be Used
There are a lot of ways in which wedding verses can be incorporated in your wedding. Here are examples of events/ways with some wedding verses commonly used:
During the wedding ceremony by the bride and groom:
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
” I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” – W.B. Yeats
“I love you Not for what you are But for what I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft
During the best man’s speech and in wedding toasts:
“Marriages are made in heaven. But, remember, so are thunder and lightning.” Anonymous
“When you meet someone who can cook and do housework – don’t hesitate a minute – marry him.” – Anonymous
“To keep your marriage brimming with Love in the wedding cup, Whenever you’re wrong admit it, Whenever you’re right, shut up.” – Ogden Nash
“A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.” – Andre Maurois
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
“In all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums.” – Douglas Jerrold
As an inscription on personalized wedding gifts:
“To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
“There are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love.” – I Corinthians 13:13
On the wedding invitations and programs or inside of a wedding card:
“Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” – Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen
“Happiness is to love and to be loved.” – Anonymous
“Love is not finding someone to live with, It’s finding someone you can’t live without.” – Rafael Ortiz
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.” – Goethe
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.” – Karen Sunde
So whether you choose from some of the already written verses or choose to have some written by a wedding verse writer, the most important thing is that you can have perfect wedding verses – which can sum up what you feel for each other, as well as those you can share with friends, family and closest to you.
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