Popular Wedding Readings
Need help with wedding vow ideas? I’m back with my series, and today I add this literary reading by Louis de Bernieres, it is such a popular choice… and definitely one of my fave wedding readings!
Extract from Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your root was so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.
I love Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, and I’m a huge fan of literary readings for weddings! Need more? Read these 15 Romantic Wedding Reading Ideas!
Do you have a favourite wedding reading? Please share in the comments section.
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