Weddingbee boards

I am.  The only reason is because I'm trying to find something for some of my FI family members to do so that the wedding doesn't seem onesided.   I'm going to let her pick and I'm just going to approve it.

I worked in a couple poems that my BF read during our ceremony. She was very funny and did a fantastic job! 

Pablo Neruda wrote, 'if little by little you stop loving me

I shall stop loving you little by little.'

He meant it as a threat. 

He also said 'But if each day, each hour,

you feel that you are destined for me…

if each day a flower

climbs up to your lips to seek me, in me all that fire is repeated,

in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,

my love feeds on your love

and as long as you live it will be in your arms

without leaving mine.' 

Now that was a promise.

As your family and friends, let us say 'may the promises and threats in your marriage be made with the spirit of Pablo Neruda.'

Leonard Cohen said, 'Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin'

(Don't do that. Don't attempt that at home. No one knows what that means.)

But he also said 'Dance me to the end of love 

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born 

Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn 

Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn 

Dance me to the end of love'. 

(That's cool. You should go ahead and try that.)

Well, this seems to be going well - Let's finish it off with an entire poem. I think Cummings deserves the air time and really? Who could say it better?

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in

my heart) i am 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 fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want

no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)

and it’s you are 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 sky of a tree called life; which grows

higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

Thank you (walk off awkwardly)

I'm thinking of this excerpt from one of my favorite books Bridge Across Forever by Richard Bach:

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. 

I would really like to post our readings, but the formatting keeps screwing up.  We are doing:

- "To Be with one another" by George Eliot

- "i carry you in my heart" by E. E. Cummings

- a reading from First Poems, by Maria Rainer Rilke (I think it is on Offbeat Bride...?)