Help me Flist - you're my only hope

[kellifer]

So my best friend/flatmate is getting married and she wants me to read something, like a poem or something like that about love and stuff. The celebrant provided a reading but it's kinda lame and impersonal - does anyone have any ideas? Another friend had a reading from The Skin Horse and it was very cute but done so I can't do that.

I'm relying on the fact that you all are creative and far more well read than me (considering my book shelves are full of Stephen King, Clive Barker etc and that might not be appropriate) and can make some suggestions??

Help!

ETA: Thank you so much!

In other news, I am writing at the moment. I know it doesn't really seem like it but I truly am. I even have a couple of stories ready to go - just need some clean up. Plus, my entry for kamikazeremix should be posted v. soon, I've signed up for the SPN Xmas exchange (one of my prompts was pretty much the same as a prompt of mine and I'm writing that... heh!) and I maaaay have signed up for Inception Big Bang... eep!

Comments

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Oh what a lovely thing. My sister's friend read out a Shakespeare sonnet (number 116) at her wedding and it was very moving.

Which when translated more into now adays english is like this:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

The original is much harder to read, due to the Shakespearian english, but it is so pretty, yes? :)

[deirdre-c.livejournal.com]

I read this at a wedding once and it was lovely! *_*

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Shakespeare - perfect! I'm a total Shakespeare nutto so this would also be personal. :D

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

I got all misty-eyed over it at my sister's wedding. :)

[tiredmomof2.livejournal.com]

That was read at my wedding. I loved it. It must be providence that I saw this today, as I just had a fight with my husband. Good reminder of why I married him in the first place. :)