1 Corinthians 13:4-8a
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or…
Readings
A history of love
By Diane Ackerman Love. What a small word we use for an idea so immense and powerful it has altered the flow of history, calmed monsters, kindled…
A marriage
By Michael Blumenthal You are holding up a ceiling with both arms. It is very heavy, but you must hold it up, or else it will fall down on you. Your…
A New Beginning
~ Gwen Frostic ~ On this earth there is a oneness A rhythmic flow through everything that lives The things with roots and stems and leaves The things…
Apache marriage blessing
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be the shelter for each other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be the warmth for the…
Blessing for a marriage
~ James Dillet Freeman ~ May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience,…
Bridal song
~ John Ford ~ Comforts lasting, loves increasing, Like soft hours never ceasing: Plenty’s pleasure, peace complying, Without jars, or tongues…
Cherokee prayer
God in heaven above please protect the ones we love. We honor all you created as we pledge our hearts and lives together. We honor mother-earth – and…
Colossians 3:12-14
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forbearing one another and, if one has…
Dove poem
~ Author Unknown ~ Two doves meeting in the sky Two loves hand in hand eye to eye Two parts of a loving whole Two hearts and a single soul Two stars…
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone…
Ephesians
Submit yourselves one to another as the fear of God. Wives, show reverence for your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of…
Eskimo love song
~ Author Unknown ~ You are my husband My feet shall run because of you My feet dance because of you My heart shall beat because of you My eyes see…
Excerpt from 100 love sonnets
~ By Pablo Neruda I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark…
Excerpt from the Velveteen Rabbit
~ By Margery Williams ~ “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy…
Excerpt from Tuesdays with Morrie
~ By Mitch Albom ~ “Still,” Morrie said, “there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don’t respect the other person,…
Excerpt from “a song for hiawatha”
Come join us in celebration, those who love sunshine on meadow Who love shadow of the forest, love the wind among the branches and the palacades of…
Excerpt from “The Gift from the Sea”
~ By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~ When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an…
Excerpt from “the prophet”
~ By Kahlil Gilbran ~ Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board…
Fidelity
~ Dorothy Colgan ~ Man and woman are like the earth, that brings forth flowers in summer, and love, but underneath is rock. Older than flowers, older…
Foundations of marriage
by Regina Hill Love, trust, and forgiveness are the foundations of marriage. In marriage, many days will bring happiness, while other days may be…
Genesis 1:26-31
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the…
Genesis 2:28-24
The Lord God said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him.” So the Lord God formed out of the ground various…
Hindu marriage poem
You have become mine forever. Yes, we have become partners. I have become yours. Hereafter, I cannot live without you. Do not live without me. Let us…