readings | poetry | sayings

 

 A Blessing for Wedding by Jane Hirshfield

May the light of love be in your eyes
when you look at each other,
and may you see in your partner
not only the beauty they show the world,
but the hidden radiance that only you perceive.

May the strength of love be in your hands
when you hold each other,
and may you find in that touch
a refuge from all the storms of life.

May the music of love be in your voice
when you speak to each other,
and may the words you say
build bridges over any silence.

May the warmth of love be in your hearts
when you open yourselves to each other,
and may it grow through all seasons,
deeper and more true as the years pass.

 

 

A Promise

I promise to see you
not just in moments of laughter
but in quiet mornings
and the weight of your dreams

to honor your strength
when the world feels heavy
and to celebrate the light
you bring to my darkest days

I will love you
not only for what you are
but for who you are becoming
and walk beside you
through every season of life

this is my vow
my heart spoken in stillness
and in the loudest of joys

 

 

The History of Love  Arranged and Adapted from the Novel by Nicole Krauss

Once upon a time, there was a boy who loved a girl,
and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

He learned that love isn’t just something that happens —it’s something we create.
It lives in the way we pay attention, the way we forgive, the way we stay.

Love is not the dramatic gesture — it’s the quiet decision, made over and over again:
I choose you.

He realized that sometimes, even without touching, people make promises with their eyes.
And that to love someone is to be both brave and soft —
to let yourself be seen and still remain.

He wrote, “Maybe the greatest love is the one that’s silent — the one that doesn’t need to prove itself, because it is already there, in every small act.”

Love, he believed, is a kind of remembering.
Not just of the past — but of who we are, and who we want to become, together.

And in the end,
all that really mattered was this:
I loved you then.
I love you still.
I will love you always.

 

 

Wedding Ceremony Saying: “What Love Builds”

“What love builds is not made of stone or vows alone —
but of mornings woken to side by side,
of hands held in both silence and song,
of choosing each other, again and again,
not because you must,
but because your hearts still turn toward one another like flowers to the sun.
This is not the end of the story.
It is the place where two stories begin to grow together —
not perfectly, but beautifully.”

 

 

 Wedding Ceremony Saying: “In the Shelter of Each Other(Celtic-inspired original)

“In the shelter of each other, we live.
May your love be as steady as the tide,
as wild as the wind over heathered hills,
and as deep as the roots of the ancient trees.

May you find laughter in the quiet seasons,
strength in your shared storms,
and a home in each other’s arms, wherever the road may lead.

And as the old ones said —
may your hands be joined, and your hearts never parted.”

 

 

This Is the Day

This is the day when we begin
not something perfect — but something true.
A life that fits like morning skin,
shaped every day by me and you.

We come not with a script or plan,
but eyes wide open, feet on ground —
two voices learning where they land,
one rhythm slowly being found.

There will be laughter, quiet, fire —
the hours no one else will see,
the choosing, even when it’s hard,
the building of our “we” from “me.”

So let this be the start, not end —
not just a vow, but how we grow:
two people, side by side, who bend
the days ahead to love’s long flow.