We are keeping our ceremony decor minimal and focusing on the ceremony itself. Our seating will be in a circle with the aisle being right down the front middle. Roses for a little decoration and ceremony seating cards for the bridal party/parents since nobody will be standing.
Reading #1
Before we met, you and I were halves unjoined except in the wide rivers of our minds.
We were each other’s distant shore, the
opposite wings of a bird, the other half of a seashell.
We did not know the other then, did not know our determination to keep alive the cry of one riverbank to the other.
We were apart, yet connected in our ignorance of each other, like two apples sharing a common tree. Remember?
I knew you existed long before you understood my desire to join my
freedom to yours.
Our paths collided long enough for our indecision to be swallowed up by the greater need of love.
When you came to me, the sun surged towards the earth and moon escaped from darkness to bless the union of two spirits, so alike that the creator had designed them for life’s endless circle.
Beloved partner, keeper of my heart’s odd secrets, clothed in summer blossoms so the icy hand of winter never touches us. I thank your patience. Our joining is like a tree to earth, a cloud to sky and even more.
We are the reason the world can laugh
on its battlefields and rise from the ashes of its selfishness to hear me say, in this time, this place, this way – I loved you best of all.
Before we met, you and I were halves unjoined except in the wide rivers of our minds.
We were each other’s distant shore, the
opposite wings of a bird, the other half of a seashell.
We did not know the other then, did not know our determination to keep alive the cry of one riverbank to the other.
We were apart, yet connected in our ignorance of each other, like two apples sharing a common tree. Remember?
I knew you existed long before you understood my desire to join my
freedom to yours.
Our paths collided long enough for our indecision to be swallowed up by the greater need of love.
When you came to me, the sun surged towards the earth and moon escaped from darkness to bless the union of two spirits, so alike that the creator had designed them for life’s endless circle.
Beloved partner, keeper of my heart’s odd secrets, clothed in summer blossoms so the icy hand of winter never touches us. I thank your patience. Our joining is like a tree to earth, a cloud to sky and even more.
We are the reason the world can laugh
on its battlefields and rise from the ashes of its selfishness to hear me say, in this time, this place, this way – I loved you best of all.