Wedding Invitation Poems

Most wedding invitation poems that are used by couples come from biblical passages, Shakespeare, or from a favorite verse of poetry or literature.

Many couples feel that these wedding poems are as personal and as important as the wedding vows. These poems can help to add special meaning to your invitations and memorable moments to your wedding ceremony.

WEDDING INVITATION POEMS FROM THE BIBLE

For whither thou goest, I will go;

And where thou lodgest, I will lodge;

Thy people shall be my people,

And thy God my god:

Where thou diest, will I die,

And there will I be buried:
The Lord do so to me, and more also,

If ought but death; part thee and me.

Ruth 1:16-17

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

Does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails.

I Corinthians 13:4-8

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

I Corinthians 13:13

WEDDING INVITATION POEM FROM THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.

With this Ring I thee wed, with my body I worship, and with all my worldly goods, I thee endow.

Book of Common Prayer

WEDDING INVITATION POEMS BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

But here' the joy; my friend and I are one...

Then she loves but me alone!

Sonnet 42

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,

My love as deep: the more I give to thee,

The more I have, for both are infinite.

Romeo and Juliet

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 write, nor no man ever loved.

Sonnet 116

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate: ...

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Sonnet 18

WEDDING INVITATION POEMS FROM OTHER FAVORITE POETS

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of being and ideal grace.

I love thee to the level of everyday's

Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

I Love thee freely, as men strive for right

I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears of all my life!-and, if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after death.

How Do I Love Thee

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

So sweet the hour, so calm the time,

I feel it more than half a crime,

When Nature sleeps and stars are mute,

To mar the silence even with lute.

At rest on ocean's brilliant dyes

An image of Elysium lies:

Seven Pleiades entranced in Heaven,

Form in the deep another seven:

Endymion nodding from above

Sees in the sea a second love.

Within the valleys dim and brown,

And on the spectral mountain's crown,

The wearied light is dying down,

And earth, and stars, and sea, and sky

Are redolent of sleep, as I

Am redolent of thee and thine

Enthralling love, my Adeline.

But list, O list, - so soft and low

Thy lover's voice tonight shall flow,

That, scarce awake, thy soul shall deem

My words the music of a dream.

Thus, while no single sound too rude

Upon thy slumber shall intrude,

Our thoughts, our souls - O God above!

In every deed shall mingle, love.

Serenade

By Edgar Allen Poe

I promise to give you the best of myself

and to ask of you no more than you can give.

I promise to respect you as your own person and to realize that your interests, desires and needs are no less important than my own.

I promise to share with you my time and my attention and to bring joy, strength, and imagination to our relationship.

I promise to keep myself open to you, to let you see through the window of my world into my innermost fears and feelings, secrets and dreams.

I promise to grow along with you, to be willing to face changes in order to keep our relationship alive and exciting.

I promise to love you in good times and bad, with all I have to give and all I feel inside in the only way I know how.

Completely and forever.

I Promise

by Dorothy R. Colgane

There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave,

There are souls that are pure and true;

Then give to the world the best you have,

And the best shall come back to you.

Give love, and love to your heart will flow,

A strength in your utmost need;

Have faith, and a score of hearts will show

Their faith in your word and deed.

For life is the mirror of king and slave,

'Tis just what you are and do;

Then give to the world the best you have,

And the best will come back to you.

By Madeline S. Bridges

The Fountains mingle with the River

And the Rivers with the Oceans

The winds of Heaven mix forever

With a sweet emotion;

Nothing in the world is single;

All things by a law divine

In one spirit meet and mingle.

Why not I with thine?-

Love's Philosophy

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

IRISH WEDDING INVITATION POEMS

Irish Wedding Vow

May the road rise to meet you

May the wind be always at your back
May the warm rays of sun fall upon your home

And may the hand of a friend always be near.

May green be the grass you walk on,

May blue be the skies above you,

May pure be the joys that surround you,

May true be the hearts that love you.

FROM AN OLD IRISH POEM

My love is no short year's sentence.

It is grief lodged under the skin,

Strength pushed beyond its bounds;

The four quarters of the world,

The highest point of heaven.

It is

A heart breaking or

Battle with a ghost,

Outrunning the sky or

Courting an echo.

So is my love, my passion

and my devotion

To him (her) to whom I give them.

Druidic Vow For Unity

We swear by peace and love to stand

Heart to heart and hand in hand.

Mark, O Spirit, and hear us now,

Confirming this our sacred vow.

AMERICAN INDIAN WEDDING INVITATION POEMS

O Morning Star! When you look down upon, give us peace and refreshing sleep. Great Spirit! Bless our children, friends, and visitors through a happy life. May our trails lie straight and level before us. Let us live to be old. We are all your children and ask these things with a good hearts.

Hymn of the Great Plains Indians to the Sun

Now we will feel no rain, for each of us will be a shelter to the other. Now we will feel no cold, for each of us will be warmth to the other. Now there is no loneliness for us. Now we are two bodies, but only one life. We go now to our dwelling place, to enter into the days of our togetherness. May our days be good and long upon the earth.

Based on an Apache Wedding Vow

WEDDING READINGS

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,

and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender

be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly;

and listen to others,

even the dull and the ignorant;

they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,

they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,

you may become vain and bitter;

for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;

it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs;

for the world is full of trickery.

But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;

many persons strive for high ideals;

and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.

Especially, do not feign affection.

Neither be cynical about love;

for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment

it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,

gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness
.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,

be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,

no less than the trees and the stars;

you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you,

no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,

whatever you conceive Him to be,

and whatever your labors and aspirations,

in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,

it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful.

Strive to be happy.

Desiderata

By Max Ehrmann

These are just a few examples of some wedding invitation poems. There are many more wedding invitation poems that you may prefer. With a little research, you can find the exact wedding invitation poem to help make your wedding special and unique.

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