100 GREATEST WEDDING POEMS AND READINGS

Book excerpt: It can be tricky to find the perfect words to celebrate your perfect day. You may want a poem for your wedding to celebrate love, friendship, commitment, joy, family, togetherness or any one of a thousand other emotions in a few beautiful words – it’s no easy task. Luckily the world’s greatest poets, whose business Love is, have found myriad wonderful ways to express the inexpressible. Shakespeare, Tennyson, Dickinson, Donne, Yeats, Keats, Burns, Lawrence, Tennyson, Whitman, Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Rossetti, Donne and more – here are the very best of their most moving, yearning, happy and exciting odes to Love and Marriage. We’ve included biblical and non-religious readings as well as poems. All the famous ones are in here (yes, including the reading from Love, Actually!), and many more little-known, fresh and quirky selections. Which one will you choose for your perfect day? Which will be your partner’s favourite? Read them to each other and find out together…