Your wedding day is a momentous celebration of the love between you and your partner. What better way to celebrate that love than with a personal touch to your ceremony? Rather than choosing traditional ceremonial passages, you can incorporate wedding readings from your favorite books.

There are endless options for wedding readings to make your special day even more memorable. In this blog post, we’ll explore the best wedding readings from popular books that will add a little literary magic to your ceremony. Let’s get started!

Why Include Wedding Readings in Your Ceremony?

Wedding readings, poems, or song lyrics are a memorable way to add a personal touch to your ceremony, and make it more meaningful. In addition, they are an excellent way to express your love and commitment to your partner in a unique and heartfelt way.

How to Choose the Perfect Wedding Reading

With so many beautiful passages and song lyrics to choose from, it can be overwhelming to pick the perfect wedding reading. Here are some tips to help you make the right choice:

Consider Your Relationship

Before choosing a wedding reading, consider you and your partner’s relationship. What is one key element you love about them? What are some shared interests, values, hobbies, and things you like to do together? If you enjoy nature, consider a nature-inspired passage. If you watched a classic movie adapted from a book during one of your first dates, consider its inclusion in your wedding readings. It’s all about choosing a reading that reflects your unique story together.

Think About the Tone of Your Ceremony

Consider the tone of your ceremony when making the choice of wedding reading. A more formal undertone may require a classic or romantic passage, while a casual wedding ceremony may call for a lighthearted reading that will make your guests smile.

Personalize Your Reading

To make your wedding reading even more special, consider personalizing it. You can add your own words or change some of the words to make it more meaningful to you and your partner.

Now that you have some tips for choosing the perfect wedding reading, let’s take a look at some popular books and readings that feature beautiful passages about love and marriage.

Unveiling the Best Wedding Readings from Popular Books

Are you looking for unique and meaningful readings to include in your wedding ceremony? Look no further! In this post, we unveil some of the best wedding readings sourced from popular books that will add a touch of literary flair to your special day.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

“Once for all, I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I loved her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.” -Charles Dickens

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” -Jane Austen

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

“The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, the inexhaustible is requisite. Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable. It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can extinguish. We feel it burning even to the very marrow of our bones, and we see it beaming in the very depths of heaven…

What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests on anything that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier. The serene and lofty soul, inaccessible to vulgar passions and emotions, dominating the clouds and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its vanities, its miseries, inhabits the blue of heaven, and no longer feels anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct.” -Victor Hugo

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love – I have found you. You are my sympathy – my better self – my good angel; I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my center and spring of life, wraps my existence about you – and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.” -Charlotte Bronte

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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

“At night, there was the feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away; all other things were unreal. We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone. Often a man wishes to be alone and a woman wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. We were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.” -Ernest Hemingway

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same… my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it.” -Emily Bronte

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The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

“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 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.” -Margery Williams

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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

“‘I am,’ he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. ‘I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.'” -John Green

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The Princess Bride by William Goldman

“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches… I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids… I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I love you. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.” -William Goldman

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The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

“I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who’s ever lived: I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.” -Nicholas Sparks

In this article, we talked about how you can incorporate wedding readings into your ceremony as a lasting and memorable touch. Whether you choose something you both read together, a book that is a favorite, or a classic novel, choosing a wedding reading from a popular book is a great way to celebrate your love for each other.