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[Becky]

I like it - is there any reason he picked it or was he just looking for a reading and stumbled across it? I note you haven't said whether you like it or not...

Maybe leave the 'Adieu' off the end

[stompie]

I love the idea of readings, neither of us are religious but we have a close group of friends and getting them up to do readings will mean a lot,

[poppleminster]

We've had sooo much trouble with ours. The two people that wanted to do the readings are not happy with what we want so we are having to back-down a bit and have what they want, but, in order to get the ones we want, we simply chose two more people whom we knew would happily read what we actually want! How crazy is that?

So we have a very mainstream reading that probbaly most have heard of, one as yet undecided and two from Ogden Nash's Notes for a Student Husband which I love. I shall post them up...

Tin Wedding Whistle

Though you know it anyhow
Listen to me, darling, now,
Proving what I need not prove
How I know I love you, love.
Near and far, near and far,
I am happy where you are;
Likewise I have never larnt
How to be it where you aren't.
Far and wide, far and wide,
I can walk with you beside;
Furthermore, I tell you what,
I sit and sulk where you are not.
Visitors remark my frown
Where you're upstairs and I am down,
Yes, and I'm afraid I pout
When I'm indoors and you are out;
But how contentedly I view
Any room containing you.
In fact I care not where you be,
Just as long as it's with me.
In all your absences I glimpse
Fire and flood and trolls and imps.
Is your train a minute slothful?
I goad the stationmaster wrothful.
When with friends to bridge you drive
I never know if you're alive,
And when you linger late in shops
I long to telephone the cops.
Yet how worth the waiting for,
To see you coming through the door.
Somehow, I can be complacent
Never but with you adjacent.
Near and far, near and far,
I am happy where you are;
Likewise I have never larnt
How to be it where you aren't.
Then grudge me not my fond endeavor,
To hold you in my sight forever;
Let none, not even you, disparage
Such a valid reason for a marriage.

and

To My Valentine

More than a catbird hates a cat,
Or a criminal hates a clue,
Or the Axis hates the United States,
That's how much I love you.

I love you more than a duck can swim,
And more than a grapefruit squirts,
I love you more than a gin rummy is a bore,
And more than a toothache hurts.

As a shipwrecked sailor hates the sea,
Or a juggler hates a shove,
As a hostess detests unexpected guests,
That's how much you I love.

I love you more than a wasp can sting,
And more than the subway jerks,
I love you as much as a beggar needs a crutch,
And more than a hangnail irks.

I swear to you by the stars above,
And below, if such there be,
As the High Court loathes perjurious oathes,
That's how you're loved by me.

[Becky]

I really like that first reading, where did you find it?

[poppleminster]

It was in an old paperback book we have as part of a set written by Ogden Nash. He wrote one for how to behave in family situations and several others. Both of the above were from Notes For a Student Husband and were written and published in the 1920's. I love Ogden Nash, he tells it as it is from outside the box.

[Helen]

I like both of those

I let my dad choose our reading and he chose the owl and the pussycat. Have to say I was not expecting that!

[MrsBoucher2B2012]

I like them both.

We are having two friends do the readings the vicar said we could have anything appropriate to a wedding but one had to be from the new testament we have gone for two religious readings both about love h2b picked one and his choice is very soppy compared to mine.