Wedding poems for civil ceremony

Wanting ideas for municipal ceremony readings? Discover into best non-religious poems and quotes with our helpful guide, including popular favourites like the Velveteen Rabbit and Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you need to make a decision. You must exercise whether your root had been so entwined collectively that it is inconceivable that you should previously function. Since this is exactly what love is.
Love is certainly not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it isn't the promulgation of claims of eternal passion. Which just being crazy, which any fool can perform. Love itself is understanding left-over when becoming in love has actually burned away, and also this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Those who truly love have actually roots that develop towards one another underground, when all of the pretty blossoms have actually dropped from their branches, they find that these are typically one tree rather than two.

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

I'd like to not to ever the wedding of real thoughts
Acknowledge impediments. Love isn't love
Which alters when it alteration locates,
Or bends aided by the remover to remove:
Oh, no! its an ever-fixed level,
That seems on tempests and it is never shaken;
It is the star to ever before wand'ring bark,
Whose well worth's unknown, although their height be studied.
Love's maybe not Time's trick, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within their bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters maybe not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even into the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon myself prov'd,
We never writ, nor no man ever before lov'd.

Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Shall I compare thee to a summertime’s time?
Thou art much more beautiful plus temperate:
Harsh winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer time’s lease hath all too-short a romantic date;
Sometime also hot a person's eye of paradise shines,
And often is their silver skin dimm’d;
And each reasonable from reasonable sometime decreases,
By opportunity, or nature’s altering program, untrimm’d.
But thy eternal summer time shall perhaps not diminish,
Perhaps not shed possession of the fair thou owest;
Nor shall death brag thou wanderest inside the tone,
When in eternal outlines to time thou growest;
Provided that males can breathe, or eyes can see,