Ceremony Reading
Posted in ceremony & reception, e's vow renewal, elizabeth by elizabeth
I’ve been looking for moving (but unique) non-religious ceremony readings, and Vane (a.k.a. Brooklyn Bride) must’ve read my mind! She posted yesterday with one that I think *might* be the one, but I want your opinion!
from A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
That night at the hotel, in our room with the long empty hall outside and our shoes outside the door, a thick carpet on the floor of the room, outside the windows the rain falling and in the room light and pleasant and cheerful, then the light out and it exciting with smooth sheets ad the bed comfortable, feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, walking 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 girl 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. It has only happened to me like that once.
What thinks thou, my amazing readers?
E.
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Loooove it! So much so, that I’d use it for my own (someday) nuptials!
very moving and unique. I like this a lot.
oh… ps: tag!
That’s really beautiful and a nice change from the usual. We might consider this for ours too!
how beautiful. loves it.
I love this line:
“We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone.”
so beautiful. such a depressing book, though. it’s an amazing quote out of context, but i would probably go for a quote that isn’t from a book that represents life as a tragedy?
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