{"id":4489,"date":"2022-01-21T15:24:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T15:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lianamoca.it\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2022-03-03T17:40:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T17:40:29","slug":"union-readings-or-dedications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianamoca.it\/index.php\/2022\/01\/21\/union-readings-or-dedications\/","title":{"rendered":"Union: Readings or dedications"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4489\" class=\"elementor elementor-4489\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-274dd10 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"274dd10\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c4a830e\" data-id=\"c4a830e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0cbcdfd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0cbcdfd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.22.0 - 17-06-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<table width=\"642\"><tbody><tr><td width=\"321\"><p>During the ceremony it is very nice to listen to the verses of some great poet or prose reflections on marriage or love.<\/p><p>I often advise the spouses to choose some of the guests to make a personal dedication or read a passage.<\/p><p>The reading can be chosen by the couple or by the person who is going to read it.<\/p><p>These are some of the favourite readings by couples, but of course there are many more and I can help you choose the right one.<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1beb93a elementor-widget elementor-widget-vt-ceremony_blockquote\" data-id=\"1beb93a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"vt-ceremony_blockquote.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<blockquote><span class=\"blockquote-icon-wrap\"><span class=\"blockquote-icon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lianamoca.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/icon77@2x.png\" width=\"26\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/span><p>May the sun bring you new energies by day,\/ may the moon softly restore you by night, \/ may the rain wash away your worries you may have, \/ and the breeze blow new strength into your being, \/ and then all the days of your life, \/ may you walk gently through the world \/ and know its beauty. (Apache Blessing)\n\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f0bc57c elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-text\" data-id=\"f0bc57c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p><strong>Sonnet 116 &#8211; William Shakespeare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let me not to the marriage of true minds<\/p>\n<p>Admit impediments. Love is not love<\/p>\n<p>Which alters when it alteration finds,<\/p>\n<p>Or bends with the remover to remove.<\/p>\n<p>O no! it is an ever-fixed mark<\/p>\n<p>That looks on tempests and is never shaken;<\/p>\n<p>It is the star to every wand&#8217;ring bark,<\/p>\n<p>Whose worth&#8217;s unknown, although his height be taken.<\/p>\n<p>Love&#8217;s not Time&#8217;s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks<\/p>\n<p>Within his bending sickle&#8217;s compass come;<\/p>\n<p>Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,<\/p>\n<p>But bears it out even to the edge of doom.<\/p>\n<p>If this be error and upon me prov&#8217;d,<\/p>\n<p>I never writ, nor no man ever lov&#8217;d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A successful marriage &#8211;\u00a0Paul Kurtz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A successful marriage is one where each partner discovers that it is better to give love than to receive it. To truly love another person is to wish that person to develop and flourish in his or her own terms.<\/p>\n<p>In a long marriage there will be joy and laughter; but also sadness and sorrow, harmony and discord, as you strive to overcome adversity and fulfil your dreams.<\/p>\n<p>The key value of wedlock is that it allows for intimacy between a woman and a man, who can enjoy each other\u2019s company, share ideals and expectations, confess failures and admit defeats to each other; and yet realise in union the qualities of the good life.<\/p>\n<p>As you build your home, embark upon careers, and raise a family, your marriage can become a work of art in which both of you together give it line and form, color and tone. You will be challenged every day and in every way to make your marriage work. If you do, it can become a thing of beauty, a joint creation of aesthetic splendour and enduring value.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>from \u201cGift from the Sea\u201d &#8211; Anne Morrow Lindbergh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free, like a country dance of Mozart&#8217;s. To touch heavily would be to arrest the pattern and freeze the movement, to check the endlessly changing beauty of its unfolding. There is no place here for the possessive clutch, the clinging arm, the heavy hand, only the barest touch in passing. Now arm in arm, now face to face, now back to back &#8212; it does not matter which because they know they are partners moving to the same rhythm, creating a pattern together, and being invisibly nourished by it. The joy of such a pattern is&#8230;the joy of living in the moment. Lightness of touch and living in the moment are intertwined.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the ceremony it is very nice to listen to the verses of some great poet or prose reflections on marriage or love. I often advise the spouses to choose some of the guests to make a personal dedication or read a passage. 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