SO SO BORED WITH THE NORMAL READINGS-ideas please

Hi,

I want a different reading for my wedding im bored of the same ones coming up.I found the Dinosuar/velveteen rabbit ect now quite the in thing but i would like something really diffrent hmm ideas anyone?x

Hi,

I want a different reading for my wedding im bored of the same ones coming up.I found the Dinosuar/velveteen rabbit ect now quite the in thing but i would like something really diffrent hmm ideas anyone?x

My mil2b is writting one for us to make it more personal. Maybe you could write one betwen you for someone else to read out.

I think we might use these two...

I rely on you by Hovis Presley

I rely on you
like a Skoda needs suspension
like the aged need a pension
like a trampoline needs tension
like a bungee jump needs apprehension
I rely on you
like a camera needs a shutter
like a gambler needs a flutter
like a golfer needs a putter
like a buttered scone involves some butter
I rely on you
like an acrobat needs ice cool nerve
like a hairpin needs a drastic curve
like an HGV needs endless derv
like an outside left needs a body swerve
I rely on you
like a handyman needs pliers
like an auctioneer needs buyers
like a laundromat needs driers
like The Good Life needed Richard Briers
I rely on you
like a water vole needs water
like a brick outhouse needs mortar
like a lemming to the slaughter
Ryan's just Ryan without his daughter
I rely on you.

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To My Valentine by Ogden Nash

More than a catbird hates a cat,
Or a criminal hates a clue,
Or the Axis hates the United States,
That's how much I love you.

I love you more than a duck can swim,
And more than a grapefruit squirts,
I love you more than a gin rummy is a bore,
And more than a toothache hurts.

As a shipwrecked sailor hates the sea,
Or a juggler hates a shove,
As a hostess detests unexpected guests,
That's how much you I love.

I love you more than a wasp can sting,
And more than the subway jerks,
I love you as much as a beggar needs a crutch,
And more than a hangnail irks.

I swear to you by the stars above,
And below, if such there be,
As the High Court loathes perjurious oaths,
That's how you're loved by me.

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Hope you like xxx

Me likey thanks!x

We're having this reading. They're the lyrics from the song Adam Sandler writes in the Wedding Singer.

I wanna make you smile
Whenever you're sad
Carry you around when your arthritis is bad
Oh all I wanna do is grow old with you.

I'll get your medicines
When your tummy aches
Build you a fire if the furnace breaks
Oh it could be so nice growing old with you

Chorus:
I'll Miss you, kiss you
Give you my coat when you are cold
Need you, feed you
I'll even let you hold the remote control

So let me do the dishes on our kitchen sink
Put you to bed when you've had too much to drink
Oh i could be the man who grows old with you
I wanna grow old with you

We're having this from a children's book called 'I Like You' by Sandol Stoddard Warburg. I have cut it down a lot as it was enormously long.

I like you and I know why.
I like you because you are a good person to like,
I like you because when I tell you something special, you know it's special
And you remember it a long, long time.
You say, Remember when you told me something special
And both of us remember.

When I think something is important
You think it's important too.
We have good ideas.
And I like you because when I am feeling sad
You don't always cheer me up right away
Sometimes it is better to be sad
Some things takes time.

I like you because you know where I'm ticklish
And you don't tickle me there.
Except
Just a little tiny bit
sometimes.
But if you do then I know where to tickle you too

You know how to be silly
That's why I like you
Boy are you ever silly
I never met anybody sillier than me
till I met you!

And I like you because if we go away together
And if I get lost
Then you are the one who is yelling for me.
And, if I am mad at you
Then you are mad at me too
It's awful when the other person isn't.
They are so nicey nicey you could just about punch them in the nose.

I like you because...
because....
well...
I like you because everything that happens is just nicer with you.

On the fourth of July I like you because it's the fourth of July.
And then on the fifth of July, I like you too.
Even if it was the 999th of July
Even if it was August
Even if it was way down at the bottom of November
Even if it was no place particular in January
I would go on choosing you
And you would go on choosing me
Over and over again.
That's how it would happen every time.

I guess I just like you because I like you.


Sallymp I love that song from Wedding Singer!

Was just about to post that Clairbear, that's what we're having. Going to split it up into three parts as it's being read by our siblings.

aw that is really sweet
we had our son read the lrics from 'All i want is you' by Barry Louis Polisar' ( featured in Juno )

My brother is reading my H2B's fave poem which is from a show called Green Wing and its called "Carrier Pigeon."

Its really not "weddingy" but H2B will love it so much that I just think screw anyone who doesn't find it funny.

I was in the same predicament as you - didn't want the same old cheese! We had this, taken from a song which you'll know if you hear it (from Juno soundtrack but also an advert)

All I want is you – by Barry Louis Polisar

If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and green
All I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

If you were a river in the mountains tall,
The rumble of your water would be my call.
If you were the winter, I know I'd be the snow
Just as long as you were with me, when the cold winds blow.

If you were a wink, I'd be a nod
If you were a seed, well I'd be a pod.
If you were the floor, I'd wanna be the rug
And if you were a kiss, I know I'd be a hug

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

and, we had this taken from a childrens book

No Matter What – book written by Debi Gliori
Small was feeling grim and dark. He was playing toss and fling and bang and crash. Break and snap and bash and batter. Small said “I’m a grim and grumpy little small and nobody loves me at all”. “Oh Small,” said Large. “Grumpy or not, I’ll always love you no matter what.”
Small said, “If I was a grizzly bear would you still love me would you still care?” “Of course,” said Large “bear or not, I’ll always love you no matter what.”
Small said “But if I turned into a bug, would you still love me and give me a hug?” “Of course,” said Large “bug or not, I’ll always love you no matter what.”
“No matter what?” said Small, and smiled, “What if I was a crocodile?” Large said “I’d hug you close and hold you tight and tuck you up in bed at night”.
“Does love wear out” said Small, “does it break or bend? Can you fix it, stick it, does it mend?” “Oh help,” said Large “I’m not that clever I just know I’ll love you forever”.
Small said “but what about when you’re dead and gone, would you love me then, does love go on?” Large held Small snug as they looked out at the night, at the moon in the dark and the stars shining bright. “Small look at the stars – how they shine and glow, but some of those stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies. Love, like starlight, never dies”.

That will be lovely Aklyja! So fitting to be read by your siblings. Awww. My friend from school is reading it for us xxx

We're having US Two by AA Milne and Natural History by EB White.

We're having the velveteen rabbit reading and we want one more but we're currently undecided on the second one. What do you girls think?

First one:

He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by William Butler Yeats

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

OR the lyrics to a Magnetic Fields song:

The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the damn thing
It's full of charts and facts and figures
And instructions for dancing
But I love it when you read to me
And you you can read me anything
The book of love has music in it
In fact that's where music comes from
Some of it is just transcendental
Some of it is just really dumb
But I love it when you sing to me
And you you can sing me anything
The book of love is long and boring
And written very long ago
It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes
And things we're all too young to know
But I love it when you give me things
And you ought to give me wedding rings
I love it when you give me things
And you ought to give me wedding rings

Thoughts on which one we should choose?

Oooooh Gemmylou....the second one given your musical background!!!...plus it's really different