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From: cthulhu@claris.com (Paul T.S. Lee)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: vows/inscriptions
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Date: 17 Jan 90 19:07:04 GMT
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From article <6848@sun.acs.udel.edu>, by ruth@sun.acs.udel.edu (Ruth H Glazer):
> Greetings!  My fiance' and I are planning a June wedding.  We are
> planning (because of religious difference, and no wish to upset either
> family) to write our own ceremony.  I have never done this type of thing
> before.  I am a writer/poet, and have written many words for Keith
> (my fiance') that express my deep love for him, but I just can't seem
> to get down anything appropriate for a wedding ceremony.  Do any of
> you have any ideas as to how to go about this?  Have you ever come
> across any sayings/blurbs in books/movies/etc. that would be 
> appropriate?

I don't remember the words offhand, but I've always liked the wedding vows
from West Side Story.  You can get them from the lyric book which comes
with the Bernstein/Operatic version.  Of course, you can always go to the
source and check out Romeo & Juliet.

I have a friend whose cousins got married last year.  Being musicians, they
co-composed a song for the wedding.  (Something of a classical nature for a
small wind ensemble.)  They also wrote their own wedding vows (husband's
family are Church of Christ from rural Texas, wife's family are Candian
Jews.  Not the most compatible of backgrounds.)


> Also, I need to think of something for a ring inscription other than our
> names and the wedding date.  I find that an odd inscription, since we
> both know who we are and when the wedding date is.

I would go through Shakespear's sonnets.  If you can work your way through
the more cloying ones, there are some real gems.

 
> ruth


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