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Poems and Quotes – Words to Inspire

August 25th, 2011 No Comments
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Wedding Planner, Coordinator, Lichfield, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Nottingham, Birmingham, The Midlands, Coventry, LeicestershireToday I just thought I would share some absolutely lovely words of marriage advice with you. I recently asked the guests at one of our weddings to give the bride and groom their best advice for a long and happy marriage.


One of the guests who was very close to the bride came up with some of the best sayings I have seen and I wanted to share them with you. So look no further if you want to give some really stunning marriage advice.

 

 

 


  • No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.
  • Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with. – Mark Twain
  • A happy man marries the girl he loves: a happier man loves the girl he marries.
  • You may only be one person to the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
  • Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
  • Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
  • Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
  • Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, the hope in tomorrow, the joy in the heart.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving.
Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down. – Woody Allen

One last piece of advice – Pull together and live for each other.

 

Until next time, happy planning.

 

Wedding Poems and Quotes – Words To Inspire

April 13th, 2011 No Comments
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I happened along these simple words and thought they were just lovely. Sometimes it’s the simple things we say that mean so much.


From This Day Forward
by Marianne Williamson

From this day forward,
You shall not walk alone.
My heart will be your shelter,
And my arms will be your home.


Until next time, happy planning.

Wedding Poems and Quotes – Words To Inspire

October 15th, 2010 No Comments
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A few months ago I found this absolutely beautiful quote on Style Me Pretty from Karen one of the brides featured there. They were running a calligraphy competition and these were a couple of the entries. If you follow my blog you will know that I like american wedding blogs but tend to steer clear as I like to give inspiration that you can get right here but, sometimes there are some things that I have to share. This month I want to share this gorgeous sentiment.

 

Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice,but falling in love with you was beyond my control.(Karen)

 

The winner was a bride called Melissa

It’s you I like,
It’s not the things you wear, it’s not the way you do your hair–
But it’s you I like.

The way you are right now, the way down deep inside you–
Not the things that hide you, not your toys–
They’re just beside you.

But it’s you I like–
Every part of you, your skin, your eyes, your feelings
Whether old or new.

I hope that you’ll remember, even when you’re feeling blue
That it’s you I like, it’s you yourself, it’s you,
It’s you I like.

If you have any poems, quotes or something gorgeous you want to share please send it to me and I will feature it on our blog.

Until next time, happy planning.

Wedding Poems and Quotes – Words To Inspire

August 13th, 2010 2 Comments
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My words to inspire this month have been kindly sent to me by Claire from English Wedding Blog. Claire is also a calligrapher and when she was asked to write out this poem she thought of The Wedding Genie and sent it to me. You can read the lovely words and click on the links to look at tips on calligraphy too.

Us Two – Taken from Winnie The Pooh

Wherever I am, there’s always Pooh,

There’s always Pooh and Me.

Whatever I do, he wants to do,

“Where are you going today?” says Pooh:
“Well, that’s very odd ‘cos I was too.
Let’s go together,” says Pooh, says he.

“Let’s go together,” says Pooh.

“Let’s look for dragons,” I said to Pooh.
“Yes, let’s,” said Pooh to Me.
We crossed the river and found a few-
“Yes, those are dragons all right,” said Pooh.

“As soon as I saw their beaks I knew.
That’s what they are,” said Pooh, said he.

“That’s what they are,” said Pooh.

“Let’s frighten the dragons,” I said to Pooh.
“That’s right,” said Pooh to Me.

“I’m not afraid,” I said to Pooh,
And I held his paw and I shouted “Shoo!
Silly old dragons!”- and off they flew.

“I wasn’t afraid,” said Pooh, said he,

“I’m never afraid with you.”

So wherever I am, there’s always Pooh,
There’s always Pooh and Me.
“What would I do?” I said to Pooh,
“If it wasn’t for you,” and Pooh said:”True,

It isn’t much fun for One, but Two,

Can stick together, says Pooh, says he. “That’s how it is,” says Pooh

 

Until next time, happy planning.


Wedding Poems and Quotes – Words to Inspire

May 12th, 2010 No Comments
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Here is another little helping of wedding poem gorgeousness for your wedding day. I love how the words portray the meaning of why you enter into marriage.  Its to give as much as you receive and to work at your relationship.


Why Marriage?

Because to the depths of me, I long to love one person,
With all my heart, my soul, my mind, my body…

Because I need a forever friend to trust with the intimacies of me,
Who won’t hold them against me,
Who loves me when I’m unlikable,
Who sees the small child in me, and
Who looks for the divine potential of me…

Because I need to cuddle in the warmth of the night
With someone who thanks God for me,
With someone I feel blessed to hold…

Because marriage means opportunity
To grow in love in friendship…

Because marriage is a discipline
To be added to a list of achievements…

Because marriages do not fail, people fail
When they enter into marriage
Expecting another to make them whole…

Because, knowing this,
I promise myself to take full responsibility
For my spiritual, mental and physical wholeness
I create me, I take half of the responsibility for my marriage
Together we create our marriage…

Because of this understanding
The possibilities are limitless.

Mari Nichols-Haining

Until next time, happy planning.

Wedding Poems and Quotes – Words to Inspire

April 16th, 2010 No Comments
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Our words to inspire this month really hold true to me because I did marry my best friend. I think if you and your partner are best friends you can get through anything. Your foundation is strong because you really understand and care for each other.


This Day I Marry My Best Friend 

This day I married my best friend
… the one I laugh with as we share life’s wondrous zest,
as we find new enjoyments and experience all that’s best.
… the one I live for because the world seems brighter
as our happy times are better and our burdens feel much lighter.
… the one I love with every fibre of my soul.
We used to feel vaguely incomplete, now together we are whole.

 

I always love to hear unique and heart felt readings. If you have any please send them and I will post them on my blog.

Until next time, happy planning.

Wedding Poems and Quotes – Words To Inspire

March 5th, 2010 No Comments
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This months lovely words really touched me. I think its so beautiful if you can personalise your civil ceremony with your own choice of readings or poems that will stay with you forever.

It’s you I like,
It’s not the things you wear, it’s not the way you do your hair–
But it’s you I like

The way you are right now, the way down deep inside you–
Not the things that hide you, not your toys–
They’re just beside you.

But it’s you I like–
Every part of you, your skin, your eyes, your feelings
Whether old or new.

I hope that you’ll remember, even when you’re feeling blue
That it’s you I like, it’s you yourself, it’s you,
It’s you I like.

A Song By Mr Roger’s

 

I also came across these most lovely words below, whilst I was researching for this blog, Style Me Pretty. It was said by a lovely couple. They had corresponded when they first met and this is what he wrote to her when they became engaged.

“Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control.”

That bought a tear to my eye and made me smile all day. Take the time to think of the special things you have said to each other and see if you can’t use them in your ceremony. If you have any lovely readings and poems please pass them on to me and I will publish them on the blog. Call or email I am always thrilled to hear from you.

Until next time, happy planning.

Wedding Poems and Quotes – Words to Inspire

January 22nd, 2010 No Comments
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Hello again, this month another gorgeous little reading.


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 there is no loneliness for you; Now there is no more loneliness.

Now you are two persons but there is one life before you.

Go now to your dwelling place to enter in the days of your togetherness.

 

As always if you have any special words you want to share with us, please let us know. Comment below or email them to me. We are always happy to hear from you.

Until next time, happy planning.

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Wedding Poems and Quotes – Words to Inspire

December 4th, 2009 1 Comment
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Our gorgeous words this month are simple, yet illustrate that you don’t have to have the biggest wedding in the world to show each other how much you want to be together or love each other.

I dedicate this poem to my best friends, Sarah & Lee. Last friday they got married quietly with their closest friends and family.

Pam Brown

A wedding does not depend on flowers or bells or candles, choirs or lace.

It does not need a great congregation or a vast marquee.

Only two people taking the courage to leave one life and find another,

trusting each other for true patience and love,

to face any hardship that the years my bring.

 

If you have any poems or readings that mean a lot to you, please share them with me, and I will post them on our blog. You can add them as a comment or email me.

Until next time, happy planning.

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Wedding Poems and Quotes – Words To Inspire

November 3rd, 2009 2 Comments
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This month our words to inspire mean a lot to me. I said them to my husband at our ceremony. If you can find something that really portrays how you feel, its a great way to tell the man of your dreams how much you care. Especially if like me you can’t always find the words to express what you want to say, a great poem you can identify with will really do the trick.

Its also a little different for the bride to read something at the ceremony. Our guests loved it and it made the ceremony all the more special for us. You can even get the stationer who does your invites to get the poem/reading printed on lovely card for you. Its makes a lovely keepsake.


I Carry Your Heart with me   ( EE Cummings)

I carry your heart with me

I carry it in my heart

I am never without it

Anywhere I go you go, my dear;

And whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling I fear.

 

No fate, for your are my fate, my sweet

I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)

and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you.

 

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows

Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life

which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide

and this is the wonder thats keeping the stars apart.

 

I carry your heart I carry it in my heart.

 

Sometimes inspiration comes from all places and I found this when watching the film In Her Shoes with Cameron Diaz, listen to the gorgeous words here.

If you have a poem or reading that means something special to you, please send it and I will feature it on our blog. If you have a question you want answering give us a call or email and we will be happy to help.

Until next time, happy planning.