Wedding Poems / Blessings

This Day I Married My Friend

This day I married my friend.....
.... the one I laugh with as we share life's wondrous zest
as we find new enjoyments and experience all that's best.

....The one I live for because the world seems brighter
as our happy times are better and our burdens feel much lighter.
....The one I love with every fiber of my soul.
We used to feel vaguely incomplete, now together we are whole.

Son-in-law Scroll

When our daughter was a little girl,
we often used to say,
How proud and happy we would be,
on this her wedding day.

Our daughter is not lost to us,
in fact, we have gained a son.
We're happy you can share our joy,
and see them joined as one.

So, may we welcome all of you,
and may this whole day be
a happy and a joyous one,
for friends and family.

A Wedding Poem

Then before all they stand, the holy vow
and ring of gold, no fond illusions now,
Bind her as his. Across the threshold led,
And every tear kissed off as soon as shed,

His house she enters, there to be a light,
Shining within, when all without is night,
A guardian angel o'er his life presiding,
Doubling his pleasures and his cares dividing,

Winning him back when mingling in the throng,
Back form the world we love, alas! too long,
To fireside happiness, to hours of ease,
Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

How oft her eyes read his, her gentle mind
To all his wishes, to all his thoughts inclined;
Still subject, ever on the watch to borrow
Mirth of his mirth and sorrow of is sorrow.
--Samuel Rodgers

I carry your heart with me,

I carry it in my heart and I'm never without it.
anywhere I go, you go, my dear.
and whatever is done, by only me, is your doing, my darling.
I fear no fear for you are my fate, my sweet.
I want no world for beautiful, you are my world my true.
it's you or whatever a moon has always meant,
and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the tree called life
which grows higher and higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide
and this is the wonder that is keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart,
I carry it in my heart.
-e.e. cummings

Sonnet XVI

If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say,
I love her for her smile- her look- her way
Of speaking gently- for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day-
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee- and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayest love on, through love's eternity.
–Elizabeth Barrett Browning

An Irish Wedding Blessing

May God be with you and bless you.
May you see your children's children.
May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings.
May you know nothing but happiness from this day forward.
-Author Unknown

Apache Wedding Prayer

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 more loneliness,
For each of you will be companion to the other.

Now you are two bodies,
But there is only 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 the earth.

Indian Wedding Blessing

Now we feel no rain, for each of us will be a shelter to the other.
Now we feel no cold, for each of us will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no loneliness, for each of us will be a companion to the other.
We are two bodies, but there is one life before us and one home.
When evening falls, I'll look up and there you will be.
I'll take your hand; you'll take mine and we'll turn together
to look at the road we traveled to reach this: the hour of our happiness.
It stretches behind us, even as the future lies ahead.
A long and winding road, whose every turning means discovery.
Old hopes, new laughter, shared fears.
The adventure has just begun.

Mayan Wedding Poem

I know not if the voice of man can reach to the sky,
I know not if the god's will hear if I pray,
I know not if the gifts I have will all be granted,
I know not what will come to pass in future days,
But I hope only good will come from my love to you.

Irish Blessing / Toast

May God be with you and bless you.
May you see your children's children.
May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings.
May you know nothing but happiness from this day forward.

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