Wedding Reflections

murphymad

Hi, does anyone know of any nice wedding reflections (poems or stories) that I can include in our mass booklet to be read at the end of mass? Thanks in advance

billybunty

There is one called The Walled Garden that I've heard at 2 weddings and the one I'm having is:
An Apache Blessing
Now you feel no rain, for each of you will be a shelter to the other.
Now you feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no loneliness, for each of you will be a companion to the other.
You are two bodies, but there is one life before you and one home.
When evening falls, each will look up and the other will be there.
He'll take her hand; she will take his and you'll turn together
To look at the road you travelled to reach this: the hour of your happiness.
It stretches behind you, even as the future lies ahead,
a long and winding road, whose every turning means discovery.
Old hopes, new laughter, shared fears.
Your adventure has just begun.

It has been ok'd by our Priest.

John Mason

i love this - its from the "The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams

"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.

"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

+ one on the walled garden



A Walled Garden
'Your marriage' he said 'should have within it, a secret and protected place, open to you alone.
Imagine it to be a walled garden, entered by a door to which only you hold the key.
Within this garden, you will cease to be a mother, father, employee,
homemaker or any other of the roles which you fulfill in everyday life.
Here you are yourselves, two people who love each other.
Here you can concentrate on one another's needs.'
So take my hand and let us go back to our garden.
The time we spend together is not wasted but invested.
Invested in our future and the nurture of our love.
Anon

Kooli

billybunty wrote: »

There is one called The Walled Garden that I've heard at 2 weddings and the one I'm having is:
An Apache Blessing
Now you feel no rain, for each of you will be a shelter to the other.
Now you feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no loneliness, for each of you will be a companion to the other.
You are two bodies, but there is one life before you and one home.
When evening falls, each will look up and the other will be there.
He'll take her hand; she will take his and you'll turn together
To look at the road you travelled to reach this: the hour of your happiness.
It stretches behind you, even as the future lies ahead,
a long and winding road, whose every turning means discovery.
Old hopes, new laughter, shared fears.
Your adventure has just begun.

It has been ok'd by our Priest.

In case you're not aware, that's not actually an apache blessing. It was written for a movie.