Needing advice or ideas
My best and oldest friend is getting married in a week and a half, and I love her, even when she makes me crazy. She asked me to read something, of my own choosing, at her wedding. I have been pouring through books and poems and whatnot, and cannot come up with anything that seems right. She is independent, strong, a fighter, critical, secretly sensitive and soft, has hidden layers of generosity and loveliness but a hard sarcastic outside. So what on earth is appropriate for that?
I am at a loss, i want something good, not cheesy, sweet but not too sentimental, not religous, not too spiritual, down to earth, but real...does anyone have any ideas?
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want your reading directed. Do you wish to speak to the couple? The guests? Do you wish to address the happiness that you wish them, or perhaps the joy that their union brings to all who are there to witness it? It might be easier to find something if you decide on a message, and to whom you would like to direct it.
I wish I had a fantastic piece all ready to send to you, but maybe this will help.
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Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. ~Austin O'Malley
I always like Kahlil Gibran's verse on marriage because it spoke to a fiercely independent aspect of partnership. It might be too... spiritual, though.
I was going to mention this too. I love Kahlil Gibran.
I've read the passage on friendship at a wedding before too...
Sylvia Plath's "song for a Summer's Day"? Maybe too short for this kind of thing. Maybe a little inappropriate considering the whole Plath/Hughes marriage history.... still, it's a sweet poem.
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part of me wants to speak directly to them, wishing them happiness and strength and passion for eachother and justice and whatnot, but i also want to say something maybe about everyone coming together to celebrate and support them...