Unique Readings to Incorporate into Your Ceremony

We’ve all read a book, watched a movie or listened to a song and heard a line of which we thought, “hey, I bet that’d make a great addition to a wedding ceremony!” 

Wait, really? I’m the only one? Hmm, okay then.

Well, regardless of whether or not you personally have thought that a line from a book, movie or song would go well in a wedding ceremony, I have! And I assure you that there are tons of them out there. After all, the authors of books, directors of movies and the writers of songs are all creating something that flows from emotion, and what’s a wedding ceremony but a giant gushing of emotion about another person!

So, if you’re writing your own ceremony or vows, feel free to pick from the list of quotes below and incorporate them into your wedding! They’re sure to add to the moment, especially to the people that know where the line or quote is coming from!


Movie Quotes:

  1. "You complete me." —Jerry Maguire

  2. "So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard, and we're gonna have to work at this every day. But I wanna do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever. You    and me. Every day." —The Notebook

  3. "You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on." —Pride and Prejudice

  4. "People do fall in love. People do belong to each other, because that's the only chance that anyone's got for true happiness." —Breakfast at Tiffany's

  5. "Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." —Dead Poets Society

  6. "I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you." —Pocahontas

  7. "I've come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours." —Sense and Sensibility

  8. "My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful." —The Fault in Our Stars

  9. "I don't want to sound foolish, but remember love is what brought you here. And if you've trusted love this far, don't panic now. Trust it all the way." —If Beale Street Could Talk

  10. "What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey, that's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon." —It's a Wonderful Life


Lines From Music:

  1. “My first, my last, my everything” -Barry White

  2. "Cause all of me loves all of you. Love your curves and all your edges, all your perfect imperfections." -John Legend

  3. “Well I found a woman, stronger than anyone I know. She shares my dreams, I hope that someday I'll share her home." -Ed Sheeran

  4. "And when you smile. The whole world stops and stares for a while. 'Cause girl, you're amazing. Just the way you are." -Bruno Mars

  5. "Baby it's you. You're the one I love, You're the one I need, You're the only one I see." -Beyonce

  6. "But nothing's greater, than the rush that comes with your embrace." -Leona Lewis

  7. "Until tonight I only dreamed about you. I can't believe I ever breathed without you. Baby, you make me feel alive and brand new." -Kelly Clarkson

  8. "No matter what I do, I'm no good without you and I can't get enough. Must be love on the brain." -Rihanna

  9. "But right now it's you and me forever, girl. And you know we could do better than anything that we did. You know that you and me, we could do anything." -Dave Matthews Band

  10. “Whenever I'm alone with you, You make me feel like I am home again." -The Cure


Quotes From Books:

  1. “Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.” -The Princess Bride

  2. “Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.” -The Diaries of Adam and Eve

  3. “To love or have been loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.” -Les Mis

  4. “Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instills grace in every common thing and divinity in every careless gesture.” -Cyrano De Bergerac

  5. “He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest.” -Stop All the Clocks

  6. “You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me.” -City of Glass

  7. “For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” -Anna and the French Kiss

  8. “You are the friend to whom my soul is attached as to its better half. You are dearer to me than language has the power of telling.” Evelina

  9. “In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.” -Selected Diaries

  10. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” -Winnie-The-Pooh

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