Do-It-Yourself Wedding Ceremony: Choosing the Perfect Words and Officiating Your Unforgettable Day by Dayna Reid

Author:Dayna Reid [Reid, Dayna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-06-17T18:30:00+00:00

Readings ~ from Children’s Stories

“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”

“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but Really loves you, then you become Real.”

“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.

“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”

“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”

“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get all loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

~ Excerpt from The Velveteen Rabbit, By Margery Williams

Congratulations

Today is your day

You’re off to Great Places

You’re off and away!

You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes

You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

You’re now on your own. And you know what you know.

And YOU are the couple who’ll decide where to go.

You’ll look up and down streets. Look ‘em over with care.

About some you will say, “I don’t choose to go there.”

With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet,

you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

OH! THE PLACES YOU’LL GO!

You’ll be on your way up!

You’ll be seeing great sights!

You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights

On and on you will hike and I know you’ll hike far

and face up to your problems whatever they are.

You’ll get mixed up, of course, as you already know.

You’ll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go.

So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact

and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.

And never mix up your right foot with your left.

And will you succeed?

Yes! You will, indeed!

(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)

KIDS, YOU’LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!

So …

you’re off to Great Places!

Today IS your day!

Your mountain is waiting.

So … get on your way!

~ Adapted from “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”, Dr. Seuss

I’ll love you forever,

I’ll like you for always,

As long as I’m living

My [love] you’ll be.

~ Adapted from Love You Forever, Robert Munsch

If you become a fish in a trout stream, I will become a fisherman and I will fish for you.

If you become a rock on the mountain high above me, I will be a mountain climber, and I will climb to where you are.

If you become a crocus in a hidden garden, I will be a garden.

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