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We chose one of my fiance's good friends who didn't quite make the groomsman cut. The other one for us is still a toss up, but I am thinking of asking one of my cousins, as a way to get family involved, since I didn't ask any of them to be my bridesmaids.
My aunt who I wanted to be a bridesmaid but felt weird because she is a lot older than me and my fiancee's best friend that is a girl because it would have been hard to have her in the bridal party.
We're probably going to have my fiance's sisters do ours (they're not in the wedding party, so we wanted to acknowledge them in some other way). I did a reading at one of my best friends' weddings -- she decided to have a very small wedding party with her sister and fiance's sister only, so she had other important friends and family members do readings for her.
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We are having a good friend of mine who would have made the BM cut if my FI would have added one more to his side ;-) and FI's sister (not in the bridal party).
We thought about having both of our mothers do the prayers of the people (i've seen it done with 2 before) but we figured that a wedding ceremony was a time for peace and celebration, and having our mothers do that together wouldn't be peaceful or fun ;-) haha
We are having my best friend (and MOH)'s mom, because she is a dear friend and is also pretty active in the church. I'm also asking my friend mainly because she didn't make the BM cut 
but also because she used to be a news reporter so I figured it would be right up her alley!
I am a godmother to my niece so she did our readings.
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I've read at two of my cousin's wedding. I'm having my two closest female cousins as bridesmaids. Since most of my other cousin's are male and wouldn't want to do the readings, FI and I are asking our godmothers/aunts to read.
We haven't decided yet. But I might respectfully borrow Mrs. Tiramisu's idea and have both moms do the readings! I love the idea because I want to find a way to really incorporate my mom into the ceremony. She's such an integral part of my life.
I plan on asking my godmother to do one of the readings. I'd like to ask someone on his side as well, but not too many of them are Catholic. My church is a bit big, and intimidating to those not used to big ol' Catholic masses! 
I also thought about my FSIL, who is Catholic, a Catholic school teacher to boot, but I'm not sure if it is appropriate or even "fair" to ask that of a member of the wedding party.
As beautiful as our mom's doing them would be, I doubt either could come close to making it through the readings.
I am going to ask our close Catholic cousins that live out of state. These are the ones that I wanted to incorporate into the wedding, without boggin them down with getting dresses/tuxes and fititngs etc.
We also have a lot of little ones. So I will have the flower girl/ring bear "runner ups" bring up the gifts for communion.
My brother, and my fiance's sister will hopefully read at our wedding. (I haven't asked yet, our wedding isn't till nov/09)
I'm gonna have my brother's family bring up the gifts, as my nephews will be too young to be ring bearers, and there are no little girls to be flower girls.
We're trying to decide still...we're thinking maybe my grandfather (but I don't want to ask one without asking the other one!), or my godfather, or his cousin, or his friend/confirmation sponsor.
We chose my godfather/my hubby's best friend (he's my godfather from confirmation so he's only 26)...he was also part of our wedding party. We also asked my hubby's cousin, who was also in the wedding, it's just her kind of thing so we just thought of her. For the third reading, I asked my cousin (who is like a brother) to do the reading since we didn't end up inviting him to be a part of the bridal party (we just didn't want to get up to 7 couples, it was too much for us). He ended up being in and out of the hospital around the time of our wedding, and actually got a pass to leave the hospital to be at our wedding for a few hours. His sister insisted that he couldn't do the reading (didn't even give us a chance to talk to him about it to see if he could still do it) and she just took it upon herself to do the last reading. She's something else, but I didn't feel like dealing with drama the day of the wedding. If I had known she was going to do that, I would have just asked my godson to do the reading (by the way I later asked my cousin about his sister doing the reading and he said he didn't know she was going to do it for him...she's just a little B like that).
Usually the bride and groom read the first and second readings in my church community... But that might be a Vietnamese only thing, I'm not sure.
I think I will ask my godmother and he will ask his aunt, they are very close, but we still haven't gotten to this part of planning yet.
We asked his SIL and my youngest brother. My grandmother/godmother will be doing the Psalm, and a close friend of ours will be doing the Prayer of the Faithful.
We are having my grandfather do one reading, and our pastor do the other reading and the message.
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We each chose someone special to us. I chose a sorority sister who I've gotten closer to since college. Mr. PG chose his aunt, who has done readings at all of his cousins' weddings.
We chose two of my good friends from growing up. They're both Christian, not Catholic, but both very religious and felt if was a good way to include them in the wedding without making the bridal party huge (I desperately wanted it to be small). It also seemed like a good fit when we decided on roles for our large group of friends. I'm not sure that others would have been comfortable doing it, since many are not religious at all. While the support out decision to have a full mass (they're great friends!!) they would feel a little strange having such an active relgious role.
We're having a good friend who is Catholic and didn't quite make the groomsman cut to do one, and we're still not sure about the other. I wanted my mother to read, but she has said that she's not big on speaking in front of a crowd. I'm not sure who to have do the other one, since any of the girls I would have asked are in my bridal party. Would that be weird and awkward?
i wanted a small wedding party (1 MOH/bestman and 1 bridesmaid/groomsman) and my FI has tons of very close guy friends so I think we will include them in the ceremony by asking a couple of them to do readings/ bringing the gifts.
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We are asking our sister-in-laws to do our readings. Both my brother and his brother (who are both in the wedding party) are married, so we are asking their wives to do readings for us. We really wanted them to be a part of the wedding, but adding them both as bridesmaids would have made our wedding party larger than we wanted it.
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We'll probably ask Mr.D's sister, one of my aunts, and a close friend. We're having a relatively small wedding and wedding party so it has been pretty tough to narrow down who we'll ask.
we are having my brother and a godparent do our readings. now we just have to decide which readings we want.
I chose my best guy friend (whom I wanted to be in the wedding but decided he just wouldn't look right in a BM dress!!! 
). I live in Boston, and he lives in Indiana, so I called him to ask. He was delighted!
we're asking each of our old college roommates to do a reading each. it just so happened that all of our other roommates ended up being a GM or a BM!
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Big toss up I still have no idea who to ask!! I think I want to ask my Godmother to do a reading in Spanish and then have the Mister pick someone to do a reading in english
We are going to have my aunt who is also my godmother and my fiance's grandmother. She's the only grandparent of all of our grandparents still living so its pretty special.
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We are having a traditional catholic wedding with a wedding mass. I can't quite figure out who to ask to do the readings. How and who did you choose to speak up?