Wedding Poems

Your vows and readings should mean something special to you both so, if you can't find anything that sums up exactly what you feel, you could try writing them yourselves. Keeping them simple is the best way to put your feelings into your own words.

May your hands be forever clasped in friendship and your hearts joined forever in love.

Anonymous

Let all thy joys be as the month of May,
And all thy days be as a marriage day:
Let sorrow, sickness and a troubled mind
Be stranger to thee.

Francis Quarles

From the Groom to the Bride

This girl all in white
Is my crystal of light
Kissed by heaven to earth in a dancing gift
Of a bride in her freshness, whom youth and love lift,
With two sunbeams for bridesmaids, their father's delight.
I have married my bride
In a ring of green fields
Round a church on a hill where all nature's her dress.

From 'Epithalamium' by Francis Warner

You have intensified all colours, deepened all delight. I love you more than life, my beauty, my wonder.

Duff Cooper

From the Bride to the Groom

My true love hath my heart, and I have his
By just exchange one for the other given:
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss;
There never was a better bargain driven.
His heart in me keeps me and him in one;
My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides:
He loves my heart, for once it was his own;
I cherish his, because in me it bides.
His heart his wound received from my sight;
My heart was wounded with his wounded heart;
For, as from me on him his hurt did light,
So still me-thought in me his hurt did smart:
Both equal hurt in this change sought our bliss:
My true love hath my heart and I have his.

'The Bargain' by Sir Philip Sidney