Outline of a typical Australian wedding ceremony
Description of parties and gender on the NOIMIn the Lake of the Woods wedding reading
Here’s the next in my series of awesome wedding readings you might like to include in your wedding ceremony!
Readings are absolutely not a compulsory part of a marriage ceremony. They’re a way of expressing something in a way that’s different from anything you or I can come up with, and they’re also a way of including additional people in the ceremony if you want to.
We’re not necessarily talking about Bible readings here, although you can include Bible passages if you want. You might like to consider poems, passages from films or books (especially those written for children), or song lyrics. To give an even more personal touch, some couples ask their loved ones to write something specifically for their ceremony. There are plenty of options!
Excerpt from In the Lake of the Woods, by Tim O’Brien
My heart tells me to stop right here, to offer quiet benediction and call it the end. But the truth won’t allow it. Because there is no end, happy or otherwise. Nothing is fixed, nothing solved. The facts, such as they are, finally spin off into the void of things missing, the inconclusiveness of us. Who are we? Where do we go?
The ambiguity may be dissatisfying, even irritating, but this is a love story. There is no tidiness. Blame it on the human heart.
One way or another, it seems, we all perform vanishing tricks, effacing history, locking up our lives and slipping day by day into the graying shadows. Our whereabouts are uncertain. All secrets lead to the dark, and beyond the dark there is only maybe.
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- Awesome Wedding Readings: a new series!
- Rosie and Michael wedding reading
- In the Lake of the Woods wedding reading
- He’s Not Perfect wedding reading
- The Amber Spyglass wedding reading