Wedding Poems

What better way to get across all that you want to say whilst maintaining the audiences attention, than with a personalised poem.
(Oh and it's also easier to deliver since it is in rhyming verse throughout!)

Below is a short wedding poem written celebrating Julie and Nigel's renewal of vows:

MARCH - A Time For Renewal

The snowdrop's gone but soon is seen
The hedges flushed with palest green,
The crocus, cowslips, daffodils -
And winter's void with colour fills.
In their due course each shoot appears
And life asserts itself each year.

How strange that there are very few
Who will their solemn vows renew.
But Nigel, Julie, as we know
Don't with the general current flow:
The gifts they, to each other bring,
Are precious as the gifts of spring:
To Earth's great laws they humbly bow
And they renew each solemn vow.

Ten years! - Each with each other blessed;
Ten years of happiness possessed;
Ten years on and Nigel truly,
Madly, deeply still loves Julie;
And she her Nigel will adore,
With equal love for evermore.

Let's see their marital success
As template for our happiness:
Like them, be loyal, caring, kind
And so like them, the more we'll find
That giving reaps its own reward -
A marriage where each one's adored.

To you our gratitude is due
Give thanks to God for knowing you;
And may God their, future bless
With ten more years of happiness.

© Richard Elgood

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Below is an example Wedding Speech that was written by Richard and used as the only speech all day!

On Charlotte & Ed’s Marriage Dec 7th 2002

How many hours of fruitless toil
Are spent on speeches that just spoil
Occasions such as this – it's bleak
Listening to those who cannot speak
No speeches then from bride nor groom
Shall be given in this room
The task – well yes – I undertook
And let those buggers off the hook
If speeches bore the company
Then all the blame must fall on me

To-day we celebrate with glee
A kind of holy trinity
3 great occasions in the life
Of loving husband – loving wife
Their marriage 1st is why we’re here
To Celebrate with wine and beer
[Toast 1]

But 2 more things I must make known
Like birds are killed with this one stone
As well as warming spouse and spouse
We warm the newly lived in house
At 1st the state of 22
Was rather like a public loo
A habitation far from fit
Even the rats abandoned it
But Ed – well he’s a superman
If he cant fix it no-one can
Out of the chaos and the mess
A home to live in – and to bless
[Toast 2]

A ‘wedding’ and a ‘warming’ on this date
What is the 3rd to celebrate?
Ah Henry – far above the rest
Must on this happy day be blessed
Don’t think his Mum and Dad are odd
Not going to a house of God
To christen Henry in the font
I know exactly what the want
A drop of white, or maybe red,
Or even lager on his head
Will do the trick – no other fuss
I now proclaim him one of us!

Next as father to the bride
Some stories let me now confide
I wont forget when she was born
The match with Everton was drawn
A girl! A Female! Not a man…
We couldn’t really call her Stan
What name to call her shall we find
“Amy” and “Sohpie” came to mind
I favoured one I went for Chloe
Elizabeth then wanted Zoe
Now this, no that, we must decide
But how the choice was very wide
Time to end these guessing games
And find a book of female names
And so to end the growing row
We took the book and made a vow
That where the random pen did fall
That name we would our baby call
Then pen fell in a fatal place
And ‘LESBIA’ stared us in the face…
She grew up having what it takes
To climb the mountains in The Lakes
At squash she was the best of players
Then went and climbed the Himalayas
On next by bike to Istanbul
My God her life’s been pretty full
Australia, North Cape and Peru
She’s done far more than me or you
This bond with nature … she received
I think from where she was conceived
- A Lakeland pub surrounded by
- The lakes and hills that touched the sky
And so her spirit grew in tune
With these and not a silver spoon

Not many men would willingly
Take on Charlotte’s energy
But enter Edward – unawares
That Charlotte was the girl upstairs

Geoffrey was Ed’s hockey friend
Seeing Louise for the week end
(Charlotte lived at the top you know
Louise lived in that flat below)
Actually it was Geoff’s fate
To end up with Louise’s mate
A girl that’s known as – err “large Kate”
With Geoff ‘retired’ his friend – that’s Ed –
Thought things were going rather dead
And with some mates a plan unfurls
To go upstairs and find some girls

Ed wanted Charlotte – all alone –
But 1st he had to fix her phone
“O Ed!” “O could you?” “Be a star!”
His soldering iron was in the car
He’d fixed it in 2 minutes flat
“My Dad – he couldn’t have done that!”

Competitive and BORN TO WIN
He’d conquer all things feminine
He would this feisty female tame
So asked her if she’d like a game
Would you believe good God above
He lost 9-0 9-0 9-0
There was far worse FAR WORSE to come
He then was beaten by her mum!
Then by – things now got really bad
Her sister, brother and …her dad!

But Ed’s spirit was as strong as hers
And sometimes even stronger stirs
He led her up a mountain peak
The slopes were barren bare and bleak
The rain poured down, the air it froze
The very place – he must propose…
And in the wind that fiercely blew
He hardly heard her say… I do.

She does things strangely does my daughter
Gave birth underwater
He wasn’t small (he wasn’t fat)
10 pounds and all in 6 hours flat

Their life – though not intentional –
Has never been ‘conventional’

And in the future will things change ?
No. They’ll be acting just as strange:-

To earn enough for modest wealth
Charlotte will tend the nations health
While Edward, a househusband he
To mind the child and make the tea

And so may they live happily
Charlotte, Edward and Henry
But when will this delightful 3
Turn into 4! Ah – we shalle see…
But now it falls to you and me
To wish “THAT HEALTH, PROSPERITY
AND LOVE BLESS ALL THEIR DAYS TO BE”
[Final Toast]

© Richard Elgood

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