Readings

There are thousands of readings which are available for your ceremony. Below are some we have chosen of the most popular secular ones. Click on them to see the whole text.

• A Dedication to My Wife by T.S. Elliot (1888-1965)

• A White Rose by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844-1890)

• Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

• Fidelity by D H Lawrence (1885-1930)

• Friendship  by Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849)

• How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

• Hope Is The Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

• Irish Blessing (Traditional)

• I love thee by Thomas Hood (1799-1845)

• If thou must love me by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

• I wanna be yours by John Cooper Clarke (b.1949)

• Love is a Mighty Power by Thomas A Kempis (1379-1471)

• Love is enough by William Morris (1834-1896)

• Love Lives by John Clare (1793-1864)

• Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

• My Delight and thy Delight by Robert Bridges (1844-1930)

• My luve is like a red, red rose by Robert Burns (1759-1796)

• One day I wrote her name upon the strand by Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

• On Your Wedding Day by Anonymous

• Sonnet No. 116 by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

• Sonnet No. 18 by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

• She walks in Beauty by Lord Byron (1788-1824)

• Truth and Beauty by John Hogben

• The Bargain by Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

• The Good-Morrow by John Donne (1572-1631)

• These I can promise by Anonymous

• To my dear loving husband by Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

• The Heart's Anchor by William Winter (1836-1917)

• The Magic of Love  by Helen Steiner Rice (1900-1981)

• The Prophet (First extract from his book) by Kahil Gibran (1883-1931)

• The Prophet (Second extract from his book) by Kahil Gibran (1883-1931)

• The Prophet (Third extract from his book) by Kahil Gibran (1883-1931)

• The Passionate Shepherd to his Love by Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

• The Velveteen Rabbit (an extract from the book) by Margery Williams (1881-1944)

• True Woman – Her Love by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

• Wedding Day by Anonymous