Ceremony Wording
I'm not going to post our ceremony wedding in its entirety until closer to the event because it is still in the works. However, the framework for our ceremony can be found below, followed by the passage that will be read.
Ceremony Framework
- Processional
- Greeting & Message
- Declaration of Intent
- Reading
- Vows (we're each writing our own)
- Sand Ceremony
- Exchange of Rings
- Closing Remarks
- Pronouncement of Marriage
- Recessional
The Reading
_My youngest brother, Justin, will be doing the only reading in our ceremony. Since we a) aren't religious, and b) are a bit "off beat," this is the reading he and I have chosen for the wedding. He is a huge fan of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, and when I saw this excerpt, it seemed perfect. It is very much Chris and I and just means that much more that it's also Justin as well.
_Except from So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
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They looked at each other for a moment.
The moment became a longer moment, and suddenly it was a very long moment, so long one could hardly tell where all the time was coming from.
For Arthur, who could usually contrive to feel self-conscious if left alone for long enough with a Swiss Cheese plant, the moment was one of sustained revelation. He felt on the sudden like a cramped and zoo-born animal who awakes one morning to find the door to his cage hanging quietly open and the savannah stretching grey and pink to the distant rising sun, while all around new sounds are waking.
He wondered what the new sounds were as he gazed at her openly wondering face and her eyes that smiled with a shared surprise.
He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers to the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones till it now said something it had never said to him before, which was "Yes."
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They looked at each other for a moment.
The moment became a longer moment, and suddenly it was a very long moment, so long one could hardly tell where all the time was coming from.
For Arthur, who could usually contrive to feel self-conscious if left alone for long enough with a Swiss Cheese plant, the moment was one of sustained revelation. He felt on the sudden like a cramped and zoo-born animal who awakes one morning to find the door to his cage hanging quietly open and the savannah stretching grey and pink to the distant rising sun, while all around new sounds are waking.
He wondered what the new sounds were as he gazed at her openly wondering face and her eyes that smiled with a shared surprise.
He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers to the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones till it now said something it had never said to him before, which was "Yes."