A Perfect Wedding, By The Wedding Guru’s

<span lang="EN-AU"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU">We’ve put together for you a little poem (non-rhyming) that covers all of the things that we believe are the most important for couples to remember in planning for and on your big day. We often see couples who are upset that their cars came late or the bride’s makeup was not exactly perfect and these little things go on to ruin one of the most important days of their lives. After putting in so much time, effort and hard work, we don’t want you to miss one single, tiny beautiful moment and so here are a few helpful hints we wanted to share with you!</span></div></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><span lang="EN-AU"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU">A Perfect Wedding, By The Wedding Guru’s</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd2sRl4f43NlxCBIMJNFclm6S1DLmCLt59optZZ4d81LNZbtfl5tu89dAtZVSD_3OYXgYtY7N8ZgEwSASpi0M-swIM_LXJiQzVOeEOugu-H7hqFS9b52n6kEgwptnEZddo2Ap_ubuGrwYT/s1600/romance+pic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd2sRl4f43NlxCBIMJNFclm6S1DLmCLt59optZZ4d81LNZbtfl5tu89dAtZVSD_3OYXgYtY7N8ZgEwSASpi0M-swIM_LXJiQzVOeEOugu-H7hqFS9b52n6kEgwptnEZddo2Ap_ubuGrwYT/s1600/romance+pic.jpg" /></a><span lang="EN-AU">A perfect wedding must be planned. Not perfect with ‘things’, but perfect with feelings, memories and sentiment. Where the important things are foremost and the little things forgotten.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU">Take time in the planning, really speak to each other and create amazing ideas based on mutual love, contribution and respect.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU">Remember the relationship above all. Spend quality time with each other without discussing the wedding,.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU">Give your vows much consideration and use them to really tell your marriage partner how much they mean to you. Look them in the eyes when you speak the words.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU">Don’t get caught up with the little things, whatever will be, will be.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU">On the day: Stop often and take in your surroundings. See your loved ones, the scenery, your partners hand in yours. It will be over in a heartbeat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU">Let your heart remind your why you are there. Not the pretty dress or the lavish party. To stand side by side and pledge your love for eternity.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU">Find quiet moments in the chaos to just be with the other. Kiss, embrace and thank them for their love.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU">Don’t get so caught up in the excitement that you forget to just be there for each other.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU">When you dance, hold each other tight and look into each others eyes as if there is no-one else in the room.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU">Take the time to speak to each of your guests and thank them for their love and support.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU">MOST OF ALL…..</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU">Laugh a lot, smile until your face hurts, feel more love than your heart can bear and breathe in every glorious second of it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU">A perfect wedding day doesn’t just happen, you must create it with your thoughts, actions and words.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-AU">These are the laughs, the tears, memories and feelings that you will recall often with deep gratitude and love throughout your life.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #993366;">The Wedding Guru’s</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #993366;">xxx</span></i></b></div>

A Perfect Wedding, By The Wedding Guru’s

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Beautiful Bride & Groom Vows

<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">When we at the Wedding Guru’s read these vows we were more than a little moved and so we wanted to share them with you. While not all of us have the gift of being able to write and explain ourselves so beautifully and poetically, what we can take from others who have absolutely put their hearts out there and created some beautiful vows, is that it gives the rest of us who struggle to explain our feelings a place to start.<o:p></o:p></span><br /> <br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">I want to tell you a little about the couple who wrote these vows so that you can see the words from the perspective that they were written.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The bride, (known as Natalia) is a very accomplished professional who, while establishing her career has travelled the world and raised 3 children, a daughter and then twins on her own. When she met the groom (known as Graham) he himself had been through some of his own difficult times and was the father to four children two of whom were in their late teems and the other two just toddlers. Together they fell in love with not just each other, but all the things that they each brought to the relationship and they worked long and hard to make sure that on their wedding day, they each were able to express that love and gratitude in their vows: We hope you enjoy them as we did, they are a little long but far too good to cut down!<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The Wedding Guru’s<o:p></o:p></span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">xxxx<o:p></o:p></span><br /> <br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Groom’s vows<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Natalia. Shall I compare you to a summer's day? No.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">You are far more lovely and more constant<o:p></o:p></span></i><br /> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">December breeze undressing jacarandas<o:p></o:p></span></i><br /> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">And summer’s warm breadth? Too narrow.<o:p></o:p></span></i><br /> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Occasionally the sun flares too hot<o:p></o:p></span></i><br /> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Or retreats before floating mists<o:p></o:p></span></i><br /> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Every waxing beauty sometimes will wane<o:p></o:p></span></i><br /> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">By chance or helped by Nature’s guiding hand<o:p></o:p></span></i><br /> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">But your long endless summer shall never cool<o:p></o:p></span></i><br /> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Never be without your beauty within<o:p></o:p></span></i><br /> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Nor will heartbeats end deny your gift to me<o:p></o:p></span></i><br /> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">When eighty winters besiege your brow,<o:p></o:p></span></i><br /> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Furrow your beauty, <o:p></o:p></span></i><br /> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">I shall marvel in you <o:p></o:p></span></i><br /> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Still delight in your bounty.<o:p></o:p></span></i><br /> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">I enter our union </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /><span style="color: black;">Expectant of loving fully and heartily</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Without fear of giving quarter</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Sharing the marriage with those we love and care for. </span><br /><span style="color: black;">A beacon to our children </span><br /><span style="color: black;">Of commitment and committing</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Perfectly balanced loving</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Without pedestals. </span><br /><span style="color: black;">Just eye to eye, cheek to jowl, back to back. </span><br /><span style="color: black;">Forever.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Half a lifetime too great an expanse to have traversed</span><br /><span style="color: black;">To alight at your doorstep</span><br /><span style="color: black;">So now cast aside your clocks. </span><br /><span style="color: black;">Set your compass true. </span><br /><span style="color: black;">Aboard for the ride of our life. </span><br /><span style="color: black;">And so it is. </span><br /><span style="color: black;">Just like you said it would be.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></i><br /> <br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Bride’s Vows<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></div><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Graham, you are my home, my one safe place. I fell in love with you for so many reasons, the way your eyes smile when you are happy or cheeky, your commitment to your children and those you love, your eternal optimism, your intelligence, strength and your outlook on life. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Graham, you, more than anyone, know my vulnerabilities, insecurities, frailties, and failings, yet you never take advantage, and love me all the more. You inspire, challenge, support<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>and nurture me. You believe in me when my own belief wavers and I am beset with self doubt. You find in me qualities that I did not trust or believe were there. Your love is unconditional, without reservation, constant, yet demanding, forthright and bold . Your love for my children and commitment to their growth and development as good, honourable, ethical, courageous and confident young people could be no greater if they were your own<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">What can I say to you that I haven’t already said, and what can I give you that I haven’t already given? Everything that is the essence of me belonged to you long before this. And it shall be yours, long after this, and for always.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">I give you not the "spring of my life" but the languid late summer and the autumn, brisk and vibrant. Our life together<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>inextricably entwines our 7 beautiful children, our large circle of friends<br />and our loving families. We will cherish the memories of our individual pasts and build our new life together. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Let me be the shoulder you lean on, the rock on which you rest. With you I will walk the path we have chosen and together we will dream. We may stumble and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>we may falter, but we will always be there for each other.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Tonight Graham, I join my life to yours. The decision to commit to share my life with you is one I make joyfully, easily and with full confidence in our love; secure in the knowledge that you are my best friend, confidant, partner in life, and my one true love. Time may pass, fortune may smile, trials may come; but no matter what we may encounter, I know we do it together, stronger for loving each other.”</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>

Beautiful Bride & Groom Vows

When we at the Wedding Guru’s read these vows we were more than a little moved and so we wanted to share them with you. While not all of us ...

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A funny but favourite wedding poem

<span lang="EN-US">Just for a bit of fun, I thought I would share with you this cute poem that I really love. I've had a few couples use this in their ceremony and it is always received well by the guests. Having something a little light and funny can often help to make it a little different and therefore memorable to your friends and family. Enjoy!</span><br /><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Script MT Bold"; font-size: 18pt;">Yes, I'll Marry You</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Script MT Bold"; font-size: 18pt;"></span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US">By Pam Ayres</span></b></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">Yes, I'll marry you, my dear,<br />And here's the reason why;<br />So I can push you out of bed<br />When the baby starts to cry,<br />And if we hear a knocking<br />And it's creepy and it's late,<br />I hand you the torch you see,<br />And you investigate.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">Yes, I'll marry you, my dear,<br />You may not apprehend it,<br />But when the tumble-drier goes<br />It's you that has to mend it,<br />You have to face the neighbour<br />Should our labrador attack him,<br />And if a drunkard fondles me<br />It's you that has to whack him.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">Yes, I'll marry you,<br />You're virile and you're lean,<br />My house is like a pigsty<br />You can help to keep it clean.<br />That sexy little dinner <br />Which you served by candlelight,<br />As I do chipolatas,<br />You can cook it every night!</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">It's you who has to work the drill<br />and put up curtain track,<br />And when I've got PMT it's you who gets the flak,<br />I do see great advantages,<br />But none of them for you,<br />And so before you see the light, <br />I do, I do, I do!</span></div><span style="color: #351c75;"></span>

A funny but favourite wedding poem

Just for a bit of fun, I thought I would share with you this cute poem that I really love. I've had a few couples use this in their cere...

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Poems of Love

<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">From The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /><i>Love one another, <br />But make not a bond of love. <br />Let it rather be a moving sea <br />Between the shores of your souls <br />Fill each other’s cup <br />But drink not from the same cup <br />Sing and dance together and be joyous, <br />But let each one of you be alone <br />Even as the strings of the lute are alone <br />Though they cjuiver with the same music <br />Give your hearts, <br />But not into each other’s keeping <br />Far only the hand of life <br />Can contain your hearts <br />And stand together <br />Yet not too near together <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">      </span></i></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For the pillars of the temple stand apart <br />And the oak tree and the cypress <br />Grow not in each other’s shadow. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /> <br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Taking Time to Love” by Rod McKuen</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Taking time to love is what it’s all about</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">what makes clocks turn and the sunsets come</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">true and without complication or staying always face to face</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s meant to cover walking, being apart and knowing</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">that coming back together makes small distances even smaller</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And taking time to love is, most of all, caring enough to</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">not hold on too tightly and yet not run too loose<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /> <br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Or bends with the remover to remove: <br />0, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken; </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It is the star to every wandering bark,</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. <br />Love’s not time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks <br />Within his bending sickle’s compass come; </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /> <br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Love’s Philosophy” </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">by Percy Bysshe Shelley. </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The fountains mingle with the river, <br />And the rivers with the ocean, <br />The winds of heaven mix for ever <br />With a sweet emotion; <br />Nothing in the world is single; <br />All things by a law divine <br />In one another’s being mingle <br />Why not I with thine? <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">See the mountains kiss high heaven, <br />And the waves clasp one another; <br />No sister flower would be forgiven <br />If it disdained its brother; <br />And the sunlight clasps the earth, <br />And the moonbeams kiss the sea <br />And what are all these kissings worth, <br />If thou kiss not me? <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></i></div><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Adapted from I Corinthians 13 on the love you hold as an ideal in your relationship </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /><i>Love is always patient and kind; <br />It is never jealous; <br />Love is never boastful or conceited; <br />It is never rude or selfish; <br />It does not take offence, <br />And it is not resentful. <br />Love takes no pleasure <br />In other people’s faults <br />But delights in the truth; <br />It is always ready to excuse, to trust, <br />to hope. <br />It is always ready to endure whatever <br />comes, and finally, <br />True love does not come to an end. </i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><br /><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“To a Marriage” </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">by Brian Zouch</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /><i>In your hands you hold the key to life <br />The key to open up the door of love <br />The strength to face together joy or strife <br />And all of human frailties rise above <br />You take a vow this day to be as one <br />In all you do </i>— <i>in all that you aspire <br />And let there be no one beneath the sun <br />Who’d seek to put asunder your desire, <br />And let us wish this knot we tie this day <br />Be firm and strong against the test of time <br />And let our children’s children say <br />That all was good and right and fine. <br />And so in all humility and in this place <br />We cast your love into the hands of fate <o:p></o:p></i></span></div><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For it is written true that all you face <br />If faced with love, you’ll triumph and be great. <br />For greatness lies within the souls of lovers <br />There is no power can tear it from your grasp <br />It bonds your hearts as one, to one another’s </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As Alpha and Omega —first and last.</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So go you forward from this place this day </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And as you journey ‘long the road of life </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Know that you stand together, come what may <br />For true love comes just once, not twice, not thrice. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Learn how to love” </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">adapted from Walter Rinder</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /><i>Every day you live, <br />Learn how to love, <br />Take time with each other, <br />Restore each other’s soul <br />With loving words. <br />Receive love <br />With </i>as <i>much understanding <br /></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As you give it </span></i></span><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Find that which is within yourselves </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Then you can share it with each other. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Do not fear this love, <br />And do nor fear this marriage, <br />But keep open hearts and sincere minds. <br />Be sincerely interested <br />in each other’s happiness, <br />Be, too, constant and consistent in your love, <br />And in your actions. <br />From this, as you know, comes security and strength. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">All that we love deeply becomes a part of us <br />So even though .you retain your individuality, <br />Today in a real sense you also become one <br />In a true unity <br />That this may be deep and rewarding, <br />Today the day of your marriage, <br />Try to commit yourselves, <br />Fully and freely, and trustingly <br />To each other, without reservations. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></i></div><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“How Do I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><br /><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I love thee to the depth and breadth and height </span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight <br />For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. <br />I love thee to the level of every day’s <br />Most quiet need, by sun and candle light. <br />I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; <br />I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. <br />I love thee with the passion put to use <br />In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. <br />1 love thee with a love I seemed to lose <br />With my lost saints </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">- <i>I love thee with the breath, <br />Smiles, tears, of all my life! </i>- <i>and, if God choose, <br />I shall but love thee better after death. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>

Poems of Love

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