Wedding Readings

Finding the Right Wedding Readings

Executive summary about wedding readings by Victoria Poole

Wedding readings are meant to share the couple's idea of love and marriage with their closest friends and family. Your wedding readings can be sweet or funny, long or short, it really depends on what you as a couple would like.

Choosing Your Reading

As mentioned before, the readings you choose for your wedding should be special to you as a couple. There are plenty of wedding websites that can help you find the right reading.

Laughter? Love? God? Anything longer will test your audience's attention span. If you find a long reading, just choose a portion of it to share with the group.

When to Give the Reading?

To make your reading go smoothly, make sure to get the reading to whoever is reading at least a month before the wedding. Also, remember to invite the reader to your wedding rehearsal. It's a good idea to have them run through even a portion of it. This will make them more comfortable giving the wedding readings in front of a large group.

Finding Your Voice With Your Wedding Readings

Executive summary about wedding readings by Samantha Sanchez

At some point, someone (an officiant, a wedding planner) is going to hand you a list of wedding readings.

Wedding Readings set the mood for the entire ceremony. They can be romantic, literary, traditional, contemporary, sentimental or instructive. The more formal and traditional your wedding ceremony is, the more likely you are going to want to use traditional verses. If your ceremony is contemporary, you will feel more freely to break out of the mold.

Religious ceremonies have their own pattern. One of my favorite wedding reading opportunities comes from favorite songs. Having a friend read the lyrics is a good compromise.

You can find Wedding Readings sites on the internet. These sites compile poems, prose, and other readings and break them down by type of ceremony.