While making the wedding invitations, I have about a 3 inch strip at the bottom of the vellum that I didn't have a plan for. I decided I would print out some sayings (some romantic, some silly, some from favorite songs, our names) on the bottom, cut them apart with some scrapbook scissors for the funky edges, and sprinkle them on the tables at the reception to add some interest. People would have something to look at and discuss if there is ever a waiting time, and it might get people moving from table to table to read them so they would interact more.
I've looked online for "romantic love quotes", "silly love quotes", "wedding quotes" and all I get is either Shakespeare or how crappy marriage is. I don't want too many sappy ones, and I don't want any crappy ones
Here's what I have so far:
"From this day forward
You shall not walk alone.
My heart will be your shelter,
And my arms will be your home"
- Marianne Williamsen
Thank you for sharing our special day.
Mr. & Mrs. (his last name)
(his first name) and (my first name) (his last name)
"At last my love has come along
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song"
- Etta James
"But at the beginning of creation, God made the male and female. For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore, what God has joined together, let man not separate." Mark 10:6-9
She thinks my tractor's sexy
A wedding is a Day, a Marriage is a Lifetime
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
-William Shakespeare
"Let's hold hands on the porch swing,
Under the moon
While the wind through the willows
Plays us a tune
We can lie on a blanket,
Out back in the yard
And wish for our future
On a faraway star
You'll feel the passion
As time after time
I press your sweet lips to mine
We can dance to the radio,
Right up 'til dawn
'Til you drift off to dream in my arms"
-Travis Tritt
Our First Dance
"All of my life I've been waiting for you
All of my love I've been saving for you
Wild and tender to you I surrender my heart
You touch me and time has no meaning at all
The longer I hold you the deeper I fall
I'll cherish the moment I knew
I'll always love you"
-Blackhawk
Our Second Dance
So, any of you creative types have any other suggestions? I have 63 more invitations to print, so plenty of space for suggestions.
silly love quotes
September 5th, 2007 at 08:08 am
September 5th, 2007 at 09:24 am 1188980669
This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love-- Anonymous.
And this one:
Apache Wedding Blessing
Now you will feel no rain
For each of you will be shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold
For each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now you will feel no loneliness
For each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two persons
But there is one life before you. And one home.
Go now to your dwelling place to enter into the days of your togetherness
And may your days be good and long upon the earth.
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September 5th, 2007 at 07:28 pm 1189016914
May God be with you and bless you.
May you see your children's children.
May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings.
May you know nothing but happiness
From this day forward.
Scottish Wedding Blessing
May those who love us, love us.
And those who don't love us,
May God turn their hearts;
And if He doesn't turn their hearts,
May He turn their ankles,
So we will know them by their limping.
Scottish Blessing (or is it?)
September 5th, 2007 at 10:58 pm 1189029522
September 6th, 2007 at 12:46 am 1189035978
Cherokee Wedding Prayer
God in heaven above please protect the ones we love.
We honor all you created as we pledge our hearts and lives together.
We honor mother-earth, and ask for our marriage to be abundant and grow stronger through the seasons;
We honor fire and ask that our union be warm and glowing with love in our hearts;
We honor wind and ask we sail though life safe and calm as in our father's arms;
We honor water to clean and soothe our relationship, that it may never thirsts for love;
With all the forces of the universe you created, we pray for harmony and true happiness as we forever grow young together.
Amen
Hindu Marriage Poem
You have become mine forever.
Yes, we have become partners.
I have become yours.
Hereafter, I cannot live without you.
Do not live without me.
Let us share the joys.
We are word and meaning, unite.
You are thought and I am sound.
From The Baal Shem Tov
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are designed to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together and a single, brighter light goes forth from their united being.
I Ching
When two people are at one in their inmost hearts,
they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze;
and when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts,
their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids.
Aztec Wedding Poem
I know not whether thou has been absent:
I lie down with thee, I rise up with thee,
In my dreams thou art with me.
If my eardrops tremble in my ears,
I know it is thou moving within my heart.
Inuit Wedding Vow
You are my husband/wife
My feet shall run because of you.
My feet dance because of you.
My eyes see because of you.
My mind thinks because of you.
And I shall love because of you.
Oath of Friendship -- Anon., China, 1st Century B.C.
I want to be your friend
For ever and ever without break or decay.
When the hills are all flat
And the rivers are all dry,
When it lightens and thunders in winter,
When it rains and snows in summer,
When Heaven and Earth mingle
Not 'til then will I part from you.
From: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Without words, without even understanding, lovers find each other.
... The moment of finding is always a surprise, like meeting an old friend never before known.
Traditional Shoshone Indian Love Poem
Fair is the white star of twilight, and the sky clearer
at the day's end, but she is fairer, and she is dearer
She, my heart's friend.
Fair is the white star of twilight, and the moon roving
to the sky's end; but she is fairer, better worth loving
She, my heart's friend."
Traditional Wedding Prayer of the Great Plains Indian
0 Morning Star!
When you look down upon us, give us peace and refreshing sleep.
Great Spirit!
Bless our children, friends, and visitors through a happy life.
May our trails lie straight and level before us.
Let us live to be old.
We are all your children and ask these things with good hearts.
Old English Blessing
May your joys be as bright as the morning,
your years of happiness as numerous as the stars in the heavens,
and your troubles but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.
Irish Wedding Blessing
May your mornings bring joy and your evenings bring peace.
May your troubles grow few as your blessings increase.
May the saddest day of your future
Be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
May your hands be forever clasped in friendship
And your hearts joined forever in love.
Your lives are very special,
God has touched you in many ways.
May his blessings rest upon you
And fill all your coming days.
Old Welsh Blessing
Wishing you
A house full of sunshine,
Hearts full of cheer,
Love that grows deeper
each day of the year.
Commitment reading of the Pueblo Indian, author unknown
Before we met, you and I were halves unjoined except in the wide
rivers of our minds. We were each other's distant shore, the
opposite wings of a bird, the other half of a seashell. We did not
know the other then, did not know our determination to keep alive
the cry of one riverbank to the other. We were apart, yet connected
in our ignorance of each other, like two apples sharing a common
tree. Remember?
I knew you existed long before you understood my desire to join my
freedom to yours. Our paths collided long enough for our indecision
to be swallowed up by the greater need of love. When you came to me,
the sun surged towards the earth and moon escaped from darkness to
bless the union of two spirits, so alike that the creator had designed them
for life's endless circle. Beloved partner, keeper of my heart's odd secrets,
clothed in summer blossoms so the icy hand of winter never touches us.
I thank your patience. Our joining is like a tree to earth,
a cloud to sky and even more. We are the reason the world can laugh
on its battlefields and rise from the ashes of its selfishness to hear me say,
in this time, this place, this way - I loved you best of all.
A Wedding Prayer
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Lord, behold our family here assembled.
We thank you for this place in which we dwell,
for the love that unites us,
for the peace accorded us this day,
for the hope with which we expect the morrow,
for the health, the work, the food,
and the bright skies that make our lives delightful;
for our friends in all parts of the earth. Amen.
A Reading from the Book of Sirach
Happy is the husband of a good wife; the number of his days will be doubled. A loyal wife rejoices her husband, and he will complete his years in peace. A good wife is a great blessing; she will be granted among the blessings of the man who fears the Lord. Whether rich or poor, his heart is glad, and at all times his face is cheerful. A wife's charm delights her husband, and her skill puts fat on his bones. A silent wife is a gift of the Lord, and there is nothing so precious as a disciplined soul. A modest wife adds charm to charm, and no balance can weigh the value of a chaste soul. Like the sun rising in the heights of the Lord, so is the beauty of a good wife in her well-ordered home.
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I'm starting to think of something different...like making table tents out of these as a more formal decoration. I could put them on the gray card stock I am making the invitations from, and even if I have to get more, it is only about $13, and I could make the programs out of it too. I just need a few more blessings / funny sayings (don't have too many funny sayings on this list...I need more of those), and I could have one on each table, and hopefully people would go around and look at them all...I've heard if you have something different at each table, some people will actually mingle instead of just sitting at their table.
September 12th, 2007 at 03:58 pm 1189609118
THE ART OF MARRIAGE
A good marriage must be created. In the art of marriage the little things are big things ... It is never being too old to hold hands. It is remembering to say "I love you," at least once each day. It is never going to sleep angry. It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives. It is standing together facing the world. It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways. It is having the capacity to forgive and forget. It is giving to each other an atmosphere in which each can grow. It is finding room for the things of the spirit. It is a common search for the good and the beautiful. It is not only marrying the right partner. It is being the right partner.
--Wilfred A. Petersen
September 13th, 2007 at 05:53 pm 1189702384
--Kirk Douglas
September 16th, 2007 at 08:53 pm 1189972429
Thomas Carlyle
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
- Rita Mae Brown
The virtue of love isnt finding the perfect person, but by loving the imperfect person perfectly.
God gave you 2 legs to walk.2 hands to hold.2 ears to hear.2 eyes to see.But why did he give you only 1 Heart? Probably because He wants you to look for the other
Love, like a river, will cut a new path
whenever it meets an obstacle.
- Crystal Middlemas -
There is only one happiness in life,
to love and be loved.
- George Sand -
Marriage is not a ritual or an end.
It is a long, intricate,
intimate dance together
and nothing matters more
than your own sense of balance
and your choice of partner.
- Amy Bloom -
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings
"If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?" - unknown
"Paradise is always where love dwells." - Jean Paul F. Richter
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Herman Hesse
"Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale." - anonymous quotation
"Till I loved I never lived—enough." - Emily Dickenson
"Love me without fear / Trust me without questioning / Need me without demanding / Want me without restrictions / Accept me without change / Desire me without inhibitions." - Dick Sutphen
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Joyce Brothers
A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Ruth Bell Graham
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
Moonlight and roses are bound to fade for every lover and every maid but the bond that holds in any weather is learning how to laugh together.
ACCEPT - the secret of a good marriage.
Attraction
Communication
Commitment
Enjoyment
Purpose
Trust
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
Lord Byron
It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Emmanuel
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
September 16th, 2007 at 09:37 pm 1189975027
Bessie Stanley
If you want to learn something about unselfishness, humility and sharing, just get married!
Of all the home remedies, a good wife is the best.
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents, & none of the incidents as disasters.
For wherever you go, I will go:
And wherever you lodge, I will lodge,
Your people will be my people,
And, your God, my God.
Ruth 1:16
What does love mean?
"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her
toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when
his hands got arthritis too. That's love." Rebecca - age 8
"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries
without making them give you any of theirs." Chrissy - age 6
"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." Terri - age 4
"Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before
giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK." Danny - age 7
"Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday."
Noelle - age 7
"Love is when mommy gives daddy the best piece of chicken." Elaine - age 5
"Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all
day." Mary Ann - age 4
Unknown
September 17th, 2007 at 06:48 am 1190008088
September 18th, 2007 at 04:27 am 1190086027
--Ty Murray
November 3rd, 2007 at 05:20 am 1194067224
-Emily Bronte
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