It’s really nice to hear something read at a wedding that totally resonates with the two lives being joined that day. A choice of one, two, or even three can be a nice addition to your wedding if carefully placed in the ceremony order. You can also have a family or friend share the reading if you like. Enjoy!

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1. Ancient Apache Wedding Blessing:
Now you will feel no rain for each of you will be shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no loneliness for you for each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two persons but there is one life before you.
Go now to your dwelling place to enter into the days of your togetherness.
And may your days be good and long upon this earth.

2. The Love Chapter in I Corinthians 13:
Love is patient and kind.

Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude.
Love does not demand it's own way.
Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged.
It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful,
and endures through every circumstance...
There are three things that will endure forever,
faith, hope, and love,
and the greatest of these is love.

3.  Friendship and Love:
It is often said that it is love that makes the world go round.
However, without doubt, it is friendship that keeps our spinning existence
on an even keel. True Friendship provides so many of the essentials
for a happy life...
It is the mortar which bonds us together in harmony,
and it is the calm, warm protection we sometimes need when the world outside seems cold and chaotic.
True Friendship nurtures our hopes, supports us in our disappointments,
and encourages us to grow to our best potential.
______________ and _____________ came together as friends.
Today they pledge to each other not only their love, but also the strength, warmth, and the fun of true friendship.
This day, these friends will marry with love.
And as love brings new meaning to life, so marriage brings new meaning to love.

4.  Traditional Irish Blessing:
May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
May God be with you and bless you;
May you see your children's children.
May you be poor in misfortune,
Rich in blessings, and may you know nothing but happiness from this day forward.
May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
May the warm rays of sun fall upon your home
And may the hand of a friend always be near.
May green be the grass you walk on,
May blue be the skies above you,
May pure be the joys that surround you,
May true be the hearts that love you.

5.   Love ;  by Roy Croft
I love you, not only for what your are,
But for what I am when I am with you.
I love you, not only for what you have made of yourself,
but for what you are making of me.
I love you for the part of me that you bring out;
I love you for putting your hand into my heaped-up heart

and passing over all the foolish, weak things that you
can't help dimly seeing there, and drawing out into the light
all the beautiful belongings that no one else had looked
quite far enough to find.
I love you because you are helping me to make of the lumber of my life
not a tavern, but a temple;
out of the works of my every day
not a reproach, but a song.
I love you because you have done more than any creed
could have done to make me good,
and more than any fate to make me happy.
You have done it....without a touch, without a word,
without a sign, and you have done it
by being yourself.

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