Wedding Poetry - Romantic Words for Your Wedding Day
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Wedding Poetry:
Romantic Words for Your Wedding Day
Using wedding poetry in your wedding ceremony, program, invitations or even in a wedding speech adds a special romantic touch to your day and helps you express your feelings about love, marriage and your new life together.
Poets have written of love and relationships for thousands of years, and their poetry has become a source of inspiration for many couples on their wedding day - and for good reason. There are so many heartfelt wedding poems that you should have no trouble finding one that perfectly fits the nature of your relationship.
Wedding poetry may be used during the ceremony itself, on the wedding invitations, in your wedding program or as part of a wedding speech or toast. Even if poetry isn't your favorite thing (or your fiance's favorite thing), there's no denying that it creates a very special mood for your wedding.
When choosing wedding poetry, look for a poem that's not too complex or difficult for the average guest to understand - you'll want everyone to enjoy the poem and not be left wondering what it meant. If the poem will be used as a reading, make sure the reader practices reading slowly and clearly, so that your guests don't miss the heartfelt messages being conveyed.
Poets such as Robert Graves, Elizabeth Barret Browning, e.e. cummings and Lord Byron have written timeless poems of love that may be perfect for your wedding, but a simple online search will yield hundreds more for you to choose from. Below are just three of the hundreds of classic love poems you can find that will help uniquely express what's in your heart on your wedding day.
How Do I Love Thee?
By Elizabeth Barret Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
To Be One With Each Other
by George Eliot
What greater thing is there for two human souls
than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen
each other in all labor, to minister to each other in all sorrow,
to share with each other in all gladness,
to be one with each other in the
silent unspoken memories?
To My Dear and Loving Husband
by Anne Bradstreet
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee.
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole Mines of gold,
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee give recompense.
Thy love is such I can in no way repay;
The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.
Then while we live, in love lets so persevere,
That when we live no more, we may live ever.
No matter what wedding poetry you choose, or how you choose to use it, wedding poetry helps express what's in your heart and creates a magical mood for your wedding.
For more information on intivations, see Wedding Invitations 101: Ideas for the Budget-Minded Bride
For information on creating wedding programs, see Unique Wedding Programs Made Uniquely Affordable
For tips on wedding speeches, see Wedding Speeches & Wedding Toasts: Keeping the Butterflies at Bay
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