Many couples choose to have poems read out during their wedding ceremony. A wedding poem can be a great way to include a friend or relative in your ceremony.
I’ve chosen my top 18 wedding poems that are perfect to have in your ceremony, whether they’re read out or printed on your wedding stationery.
Below is my list of wedding poems – including funny poems, romantic poems, poems about love and a few wedding classics.
Love Is (by Kristy McLean)
Love is the greatest feeling, Love is like a play,
Love is what I feel for you, Each and every day,
Love is like a smile, Love is like a song,
Love is a great emotion, That keeps us going strong,
I love you with my heart, My body and my soul,
I love the way I keep loving, Like a love I can't control,
So remember when your eyes meet mine, I love you with all my heart,
And I have poured my entire soul into you, Right from the very start.
I Love You (by Zigger)
I love you with all my heart and with all that I am
Without the selfish thoughts or worrying about other things.
I am here to love you and hold you dear with all my heart.
You are my reason to smile at many things I can think of.
I can go on with life just by knowing you are there.
Keeping you close in my heart just to touch the sky with love.
Reaching out to you with every breeze in the air.
Smiling at the sunsets to send colours to your way.
I am holding onto rainbows to put smile on your face.
You are my true love and I will remember you that way.
I will always love you even if the stars fall from the skies.
If darkness takes over my eyes, to see my way around.
No matter how hard it would be to hold on or hang on
You will always be in my heart and my brand new day.
I LOVE YOU
you are my heaven sent to my way.
Forever and even more is the promise I gave you
I will be holding that promise each and every day.
You will always be my eternal love in every which way.
Until forever and more you are my never ending desire
You are my everlasting lover
You are the one and I love you and I'll always treasure your love.
I LOVE YOU.....
As you begin your lives together ( By John Bratten)
Remember all the ways
You told each other how you felt
In the early days
Capture all the moments
And hold them in your soul
As you join yourselves together
To make a perfect whole
When hard times come upon you
Take these memories out once more
Stand together both united
And show trouble out the door
Know that each supports the other
In the good times and the bad
Take time to love one another
And don't make each other sad
Put this up on your kitchen wall
To always remember the way
To be as happy and in love
As you are on this, your Wedding Day
An Uncommon Love: (By Terah Cox)
May you have the love only two can know, May you go where only two and one can go,
May the sun rise and set in your bonded hearts, and may the moon never find you too long apart.
May you treasure each-others dreams and as your own and turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones
May you brave life’s mountains and miles together, May there be no storm your lover cannot weather
May you be lovers, allies and friends, may your souls conversation never end
May you capture on earth what is in heaven, may your hearts know rapture of the uncommon love.
Wishing You (By anitapoems.com)
Wishing you both the most beautiful life, Now that you are Husband and Wife.
You certainly make the perfect sweet pair, many precious moments from this day you will share.
Blissful happiness we wish for all of your days, you both love each other in so many ways.
May your journey be filled with mutual goals, time and unconditional love, shall combine both your souls.
Enjoy your honeymoon you both deserve a rest, we just want to wish you only the best.
Here’s to Right Now (By Ms Moem)
You’re surrounded by your loved ones and all are wishing you well,
As you create a brand new chapter in the story that’s yours to tell.
We all talk about memories, you have yet to make together, and the moments you’ve already shared, to be carried with you forever.
But take time to live today, as your marriage begins, Look around and soak it up, the moment we are in.
For this is where your magic starts, when you both say your vows, you pledge to spend your lives as one because of the love you feel now.
So YES! Here’s to your future that is bright and warm and clear, But more than that here’s to right now, and what it means to be here.
Good Luck (Author Unknown)
Good Luck! Congratulations! Best wishes! Cheers! Well done!
The futures full of promise and its only just begun, Your starting your journey, a new exciting life, Together as a partnership as Husband and Wife.
Adventures, thrills and choices are waiting just for you. The road will have some turnings and perhaps a bump or two.
But you’ll be stronger together, you’ll come through every test, Your love will deepen week by week. Be Happy and all the best.
Touched By An Angel (By Maya Angelou)
We, accustomed to courage, exudes from delight, Live coiled in shells of loneliness, until love leaves it’s high holy temple and comes into our sight, to liberate us into life.
Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies, Old memories of pleasure, ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold Love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
We are weaned from our timidity, In the flush of loves light we dare to be brave
And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be, Yet it is only love which sets us free.
Corinthians, Love: verses 4-13
Love is Patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil but is happy with truth.
Love never gives up; and its faith, hope and patience never fail. Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there is knowledge, but it will pass.
For the gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial. When I was a child, my speech, feelings and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am a man, I have no more use for childish ways.
What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete as God’s knowledge of me.
Meanwhile these three things remain: faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love.
Our Weird and Wonderful Life (By Ms Moem)
Other people wonder, but they cannot understand.
They don’t know how it feels when we hold each other’s hand.
They don’t know our in-jokes, nor what makes us tick,
But that doesn’t matter. Not one little bit.
Because this is just ours and it isn’t to share.
The only thing that matters is that both of us care
About this relationship and the way we are together;
Not out of obligation, but because it is a pleasure.
We have our peculiarities but they make us unique;
Our moments of craziness can be tender and sweet.
We’re all a little weird in our own special way
and we celebrate those oddities as we unite today.
So let’s keep on going and forge our own path,
Sharing every moment and making each other laugh.
We get to decide the shape of our love.
This is our chance and this is for us.
Us Two (By A.A.Milne)
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.
… “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
Sonnet 116 (By William Shakespeare)
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds,
or bends with the remover to remove:
Oh, no! It is an ever-fixed mark.
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
it is the star to every wandering bark,
whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool,
though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle’s compass come;
love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
but bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (By Christopher Marlowe)
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.
And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;
A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.
The shepherds’ swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.
The Places You’ll Go (By Dr. Seuss)
Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
…Oh! The Places You’ll Go!
You’ll be on your way up!
You’ll be seeing great sights!
You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.
You won’t lag behind, because you’ll have the speed. You’ll pass the whole gang and you’ll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you’ll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
Except when you don’t.
Because, sometimes, you won’t.
You’ll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You’ll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.
And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and ¾ percent guaranteed)
I Carry you heart with me (I carry it in) (By E.E. 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 you 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 soul, can hope or mind can hide
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart.
Celtic blessing (By Kalil Gibran)
May the strength of the wind and light of the sun,
The softness of the rain and mystery of the moon
Reach you and fill you.
May beauty delight you and happiness uplift you,
May wonder fulfil you and love surround you,
May your step be steady and your arm be strong,
May your heart be peaceful and your world be true,
May you seek to learn, May you learn to live.
Sonnet XL111 (By Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
How do I love thee, let me count the ways,
I love thee to the depth, breadth and height.
My soul can reach when feeling out of sight,
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love you to the level of every days,
Most quiet need of sun and candle light.
I love thee freely as men strive for right,
I love thee purely as they turn from praise,
I love you with passion put to use,
In my old griefs, and my childhood faiths
I love thee with love I seem to lose.
With my lost saint, I love thee with breath,
Smiles, tears all of my life, and if God choose, I shall love thee better.
Duet (By Selina Jebbing)
As one, they will duet through life,
Singing their song and husband and wife.
As they each face challenges over time,
They will take it turns to grow old and shine.
Teaching each other what to do,
And when it dosent turn out perfect,
They will remind each other their attempts were worth it.
And now we wait excitedly, to hear what tune their wedding will be,
Today is full of rhythm and soul, of a love that sets a whole new goal.
When times are hard and not so fun.
This date will be their’s to look back on.
Memoires that will be shared and re-told,
For the bride and groom they will never grow old.