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Wedding Blessings: Prayers and Poems Celebrating Love, Marriage and Anniversaries

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This is a great book for anyone who believes true love still exists and who believes in the power of the written word as a means of expressing that incredible emotion. Wedding Blessings contains well-known authors such as Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and numerous up and coming writers from the current era whose ability to capture and celebrate love is both amazing and exciting. It is easy to relate to the beautiful, heartfelt writing of this book. One of my favorite passages is from the following piece titled, "A Husband's Vows:"

I will help you look for the things you seek.
I will hope for you,
concentrate on you,
learn with you.

Whatever you give,
I will cherish and multiply,
add harmony and keep rhythm,
with everything I possess.

Wedding Blessings is a lovely book to give or own. I bought it looking for readings to use for my wedding and found much more. A beautiful volume of verse that will soften even the hardest of hearts and move you emotionally.

This is a fantastic collection of touching, meaningful words to exchange on that special occasion. Everyone is included, or the passages can be edited to include family members, children from previous marriages, parents and friends. If the bride and groom or participants take from these readings and make them their own, this will truly be a ceremony to remember. I am a justice of the peace in Vermont and I gift this book to every bride and groom to reach into their hearts for the words that will last a lifetime.

Finally, a wedding book not full of cheesy love poems - but of quotes, poems, and vows that I would actually use for my wedding!
I recommend this book to anyone. It has traditional/religious and more modern stuff, and is so useful if you are trying to write your own vows, or kind of create your own unique ceremony.

This a great book that has various quotations & poems from a variety of sources that range from Rumi to the Bible. Great for a couple that will be getting married to personalize their wedding program/service/invitation/video/thank you cards etc.. And is something they'll treasure as they go through anniversaries. Great gift for the newly engaged as well those well-seasoned in marriage!

I am a calligrapher and I am always looking for poems and prayers to write and have framed and then present to the newlyweds. I was excited when I opened the book and read some of the beautiful verses. I tell you I am in a calligrapher's heaven. My brother is a minister and as the "wedding season" is approaching I will be ordering a copy for him. If I could rate this book higher than the 5 stars I would. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!

This book is great!! There are so many beautiful poems and quotes in here. There are a few very well known and many that are very different. Very highly recommended!!

I bought this book to help with our 30th wedding anniversary recommitment service. I was hoping to find religious and secular poems and prayers about love to express how important my marriage has been. I was not disappointed. There are many beautiful examples to use in any kind of wedding ceremony. The book is beautifully presented and has a great variety of poems and prayers.

I bought this book to help me find poems and blessing for my wedding. I found this book to be very helpful. There are many wonderful poems and blessing, including the one that we plan on using during our wedding in July.

I purchased this book after I was tasked with doing a "Reading" at my sisters wedding. I procrastinated and put it off to the last minute and couldn't find anything online that satisfied my requirements. I finally jumped on Amazon and purchased this book on my Kindle, desperately trying to find the "Right" thing for this particular ceremony. Once I bought the book, I found exactly what I needed in about 20 minutes. I found the book to be comprehensive and well laid out. I liked that the offerings were varied - from biblical and serious to sweet and funny. There were also several multicultural selections. I did wind up using one of the readings from this book in the wedding and it was well received.

I bought this book on my Kindle and wish I had purchased the hard copy. For something like this, it is much easier to have a book to flip through. On the kindle, I had to go through every page to find what I was looking for, or toggle back and forth between the table of contents and the various blessings, which was a pain in the rear.