Favorite ceremony readings about love

We're still narrowing down which two readings we want to include in our ceremony, though at the moment, we have a couple short poems in mind that we're thinking we'll choose.

We are including the E. E. Cummings poem "i carry your heart with me" in our ceremony. I pulled together 3 poems for my FH to choose from and this is the one he picked. I LOVE poetry so it was just a matter of finding the one that spoke to both of us.


https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49493/i-carry-your-heart-with-mei-carry-it-in

We did two readings that I found online but they really spoke to me:


The Art of Marriage https://www.marriedbykate.com/client-portal-readings-1/2018/9/8/the-art-of-marriage-by-wilfred-arlan-peterson
These Hands https://pin.it/3ZKadpE

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This is my favorite. We included it in our vows.

We didn't have any readings at our wedding because our officiant wrote us a love story, but seventeen years ago this May, I read the passage below by George Eliot at my sister's wedding (that sister would later be my maid of honor):

"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away."