Spiritual Wedding Readings for a Meaningful Ceremony

Unending Love
by Rabindranath Tagore

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,
Its ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man’s days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever.

Touched by an Angel
by Maya Angelou

We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.
Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.

Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.
We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love’s light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free

Love More Please
By R. M. Drake

Love more let it be religion.
Give in to it.
Let it defeat you but not destroy you.
Let it define you but not control you.
Let it fill you but not empty you.
Love more. Doubt less.
Love more. Fear less.
Feel more. Criticise less – hate less.
Stand for something. Fall for nothing.
Let it be religion.
Praise what you hold within. Then release it to the world.
There is so much to live for. So much to do and abide for.
Don’t ever loose sight of this: There are so many reasons to die for.
Let love be one of them. 

One
By Samantha King

I don’t look for you in anything
For in everything you are
Where I am, you exist
In each breath, every smile
and even in moments of pain
your presence resides
I am cloaked in your spirit, utterly submerged in you
Reality so beautiful, something I can see and feel
You’re someone I believe in
How was I so fortunate to come across such bliss?
Kissed by Heaven’s favor, perhaps
Spoke into existence, maybe
You and I were always made for this moment
Fate may have brought us together, but we chose to stay

On Marriage
by Mark Twain

This will be the mightiest day in the history of our lives,
the holiest, and the most generous toward us both –
for it makes of two fractional lives a whole;
It gives to two purposeless lives a work,
And doubles the strength of each whereby to perform it;
It gives to two questioning natures a reason for living,
And something to live for;
It will give a new gladness to the sunshine,
A new fragrance to the flowers,
A new beauty to the earth, a new mystery to life;
And it will give a new revelation to love,
And a new depth to sorrow, a new impulse to worship.
On this day the scales will fall from our eyes
and we shall look upon a new world.

Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

Soulmates
by Lang Leav

I don’t know how you are so familiar to me – or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are.
How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have already loved you before – in another time, a different place, some other existence.

How we began
by Lang Leav

It was how we began. Your mouth against mine, your fingers tracing along the back of my neck. 
You asked me to imagine what it must have been like, for the two first people who fell in love; before the word love was conceived.
You said it felt like that for you. Like we existed in a time before love – as though we were waiting for the word to catch up to the feeling. 

The Priviledged Lovers
by Rumi

The moon has become a dancer

at this festival of love.

This dance of light,
This sacred blessing,

This divine love,

beckons us
 to a world beyond

only lovers can see

with their eyes of fiery passion.
They are the chosen ones

who have surrendered.

Once they were particles of light

now they are the radiant sun.
They have left behind
the world of deceitful games.

They are the privileged lovers

who create a new world

with their eyes of fiery passion.

The most alive moment
by Rumi

The most living moment comes
when those 
who love each other
meet each other’s eyes

and in what flows between them then.



To see your face in a crowd of others, 

or alone on a frightening street,

I weep for that.



Our tears improve the earth.

The time you scolded me, your gratitude,
 your laughing,

always your qualities increase the soul.

Seeing you
 is a wine that does not muddle or numb.



We sit inside the cypress shadow

where amazement and clear thought

twine their slow growth into us.

On Marriage
by Kahlil Gibran

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. 
You shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness.
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. 

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. 

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. 
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. 
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart. 
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow. 

How to Love
by Thich Nhat Hanh

If you pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. 

When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can’t accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change.

But when our hearts expand, these same things don’t make us suffer anymore. We have a lot of understanding and compassion and can embrace others. We accept others as they are, and then they have a chance to transform.

Understanding someone’s suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love’s other name.

The more you understand, the more you love;
the more you love, the more you understand.

Companion For Life
by Hafiz

Our union is like this: If you feel cold I would
reach for a blanket to cover our shivering feet.

If hunger comes into your body I would run
to my garden and start digging potatoes.

If you asked for a few words of comfort and
guidance I would quickly kneel by your side
and offer you a whole book.

If you ever ache with loneliness so much you
weep, I would say,
Here is a rope, tie it around me, I will be
your companion for life.

The Day Sky
by Hafiz

Let us be like

Two falling stars in the day sky.

Let no one know of our sublime beauty

As we hold hands with God

And burn
Into a sacred existence that defies –

That surpasses
Every description of ecstasy

And love.

Fire & Water
by Whitney Hanson

They say that sometimes
love starts with a spark.
And that might be true,
but if I were to wish you a love,
I wouldn’t wish fire for you.
You see, fire is powerful.
It burns bright and then it’s gone.
It’s beautiful and warm,
but it doesn’t last long.

So instead of wishing you a love that burns,
I wish you a love like a river twists and turns.
It changes and it flows,
It is powerful and free.
But it consistently finds its way back to the sea.
And so like the water,
I hope your love is ever growing, ever changing.
I hope your love is powerful and free,
And may you always find each other,
Like a river finds the sea.

The Suns & the Moon
by Nikita Gill

Aim for a love

that reminds you
 of the devotion
the sun has to the moon.

Whether she is in fractions

or she is whole,

he still shrouds his intense light 

in the darkness of the night.

To give her the entire sky,

without judgment,

so she can shine in any way she wants to.

You deserve someone 
who adores you 

on the days you are 
in broken fragments too.

You deserve someone
who lets you glow

in every way
 you need to.

Sound of Silence
by Raymond J. Baughan

Here in the space between us and the world lies human meaning.

Into the vast uncertainty we call.

The echoes make our music,
sharp equations which can hold the stars,
and marvellous mythologies we trust.

This may be all we need

to lift our love against indifference and pain.
Here in the space between us and each other lies all the futur
of the fragment of the universe which is our own.

Celtic Wisdom
by John O’Donohue

In everyone’s life, there is great need for a soul friend.
In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension, you can be as you really are.
Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home.
Understanding nourishes belonging.
When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person’s soul.
This art of love discloses the special and sacred identity of the other person.
Love is the only light that can truly read the secret signature of the other person’s individuality and soul.

Apache Wedding Blessing

Now you will feel no rain,
for each of you will be shelter for the other.

Now you will feel no cold,
for each of you will be warmth to the other.

Now there will be no loneliness,
for each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two persons,
but there is only one life before you.


Let your union be blessed by the powers of Life –
Mother Earth, the Four Winds, Father Sky.
Let the energy embodied in all things living
bind you and sustain you and carry you together
through all eternity.
May beauty surround you both
in the journey ahead and through all the years.

May happiness be your companion
and your days together be good and long upon the earth.

Cherokee Wedding Prayer

God in heaven above please protect the ones we love.

We honour all you created as we pledge our hearts and lives together.
We honour mother earth –
and ask for our marriage to be abundant

and grow stronger through the seasons;

We honour fire –

and ask that our union be warm

and glowing with love in our hearts;

We honour wind –

and ask we sail though life safe

and calm as in our father’s arms;

We honour water –

to clean and soothe our relationship
that it may never thirst for love;

With all the forces of the universe you created,

we pray for harmony and true happiness

as we forever grow young together.

Traditional Irish Blessing

May the road rise to meet you,

May the wind be always at your back.

May the sun shine warm upon your face,

The rains fall soft upon your fields.
May the warm rays of sun fall upon your home
,
And may the hand of a friend always be near.
May green be the grass you walk on,

May blue be the skies above you,

May pure be the joys that surround you,

May true be the hearts that love you.
May you be poor in misfortune,

Rich in blessings,

May you know nothing but happiness

From this day forward.

Pagan Wedding Blessing

Above you are the stars,
below you are the stones.

As time passes, remember…

Like a star should your love be constant,

Like the earth should your love be firm.

Possess one another, yet be understanding.

Have patience with each other,

For storms will come, and they will go quickly.

Be free in giving of affection and of warmth.

Have no fear, and let not the ways or words of the
Unenlightened give you unease.

For the Gods are with you,

Now and always!