30 "Readings" Category Articles

Meaningful readings and prayers for a Baha'i wedding ceremony. (From selected texts: Abdu’l-Bahá and Bahá’u’lláh.)

8 beautiful Celtic wedding blessings and love poems from Irish, Scottish, and Welsh traditions. Perfect for a cultural wedding reading, handfasting ceremony, or vow renewal ceremony. (Wedding readings PDFs)

Christian wedding readings & Bible verses in Hawaiian Creole / Hawaiian Pidgin, from Da Jesus Book (Hawaiian Pidgin Bible, HPB)

Modern & traditional Native American wedding ceremony readings & wedding vow examples. Read prayers & blessings from Navajo, Cherokee, Shoshone & others

Start here to find a meaningful Christian reading for wedding & vow renewal ceremonies! Add one of these 12 poems to a religious or slightly religious wedding script

Are you a nonreligious, atheist, or interfaith couple looking for slightly-religious Bible quotes and verses to include in your mostly secular wedding ceremony, to make family and friends feel welcome? Here are some low-key scripture choices that focus on love, family, and friendship.

A spiritual wedding ceremony script for Winter Solstice wedding or elopement. References to nature, the meaning of holiday, and lasting love. This officiant script includes a warm welcome and invocation, moment of mindful reflection, a reading of Nick Drake's 'Northern Sky', declaration of intent, unique seasonal vows and rings exchange, and a heartfelt pronouncement. Perfect for spiritual, non-denominational, Pagan, and non-religious couples.

Add one of these 5 Spanish love poems to your wedding ceremony or vows! Includes English translations for a personalized bilingual script, featuring wedding poems by Bécquer, Neruda, Paz, Benedetti & Mistral.

“Love is patient love is kind…” Include this memorable reading in your wedding ceremony, or choose one of these 5 unique alternatives to the popular 1 Corinthians 13 Bible verse. This wedding reading is perfect for a Christian marriage ceremony, a ‘spiritual but not religious’ wedding, and even non-religious ceremonies. Plus links to full wedding ceremony scripts for the officiant, to show you when and how to introduce the reading, suggested ceremony order, and more.

How to write a funny calavera literaria (or calaveras poem) for your Day of the Dead wedding ceremony, and when to include it during the invocation, written vows, blessing, or reception! Plus a sample script for the wedding officiant to use as an example, to ‘eulogize’ the newlyweds in a funny and loving way on Dia de los Muertos.

This marriage advice from 1880 offers an interesting glimpse into the past! The wedding reading, titled 'How to Perpetuate the Honeymoon,' has been reprinted and read at weddings by wedding officiants for decades, and was re-discovered over the weekend on Reddit, when a poster found it attached to a vintage marriage license from 1946.

Funny wedding readings and love poems to add to a lighthearted wedding ceremony script, unique wedding vows, or a whimsical rhyming officiant speech. Include these fun wedding quotes from Shel Silverstein, Dr. Seuss, Ogden Nash, The Princess Bride, Pam Ayres, and other favorites, and leave you and your guests laughing and filled with love on the wedding day.

Quotes on love & happiness from The Dalai Lama to personalize any wedding ceremony script. Use in the invocation, wedding officiant’s blessing, vows, or as a unique wedding reading, for a Buddhist, interfaith, or spiritual marriage ceremony. Taken from The Art of Happiness, The Book of Joy & other essays, with additional quotes from Howard C. Culter.

5 examples of Muslim wedding vows inspired by quotes from the Quran about love and marriage to use in a modern Nikah ceremony or interfaith Muslim wedding ceremony. Read quotes from the Quran in English and sample vows written with Islamic marriage values in mind.

These Nightmare Before Christmas inspired wedding vows always make us swoon! Read Jack and Sally’s lyrics of love from the Henry Selick & Tim Burton animated dark fantasy film classic, and learn how to add a whimsical, romantic, musical touch to your own wedding ceremony and marriage vows.