Rustic
A rustic wedding will connect you to a simpler time, when we lived in closer connection to nature and the work of our hands. These are the poems you would read after chopping the wood and setting the kettle to boil.
11 poems
Habitationby Margaret Atwood, b. 1939“With wonder at having survived this far, we are learning to make fire”
House of Stoneby Carmen Bugan, b. 1970“May your tears and your smiles happen always face to face.”
I love youby Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1850 ~ 1919“I love your eyes when the lovelight lies lit with a passionate fire”
Loveby "Roy Croft" (disputed attribution)“You are helping me to make out of the lumber of my life, not a tavern, but a temple”
Marriage Morningby Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809 ~ 1892“This is the golden morning of love, and you are his morning star”
Most like an archby John Ciardi, 1916 ~ 1978“All I do at piling stone on stone apart from you is roofless around nothing”
Mysteries, yesby Mary Oliver, 1935 ~ 2019“Let me keep company, always, with those who say 'look' and laugh in astonishment and bow their heads.”
Song of the Open Roadby Walt Whitman, 1819 ~ 1892“I give you myself before preaching or law”
The master speedby Robert Frost, 1874 ~ 1963“Once you agree that life is just life forevermore, together, wing to wing and oar to oar”
We are youngby J.R.R. Tolkien, 1892 ~ 1973“We have become as one, deep rooted in the soil of Life and tangled in the sweet growth”
When faces called flowersby e.e. cummings, 1894 ~ 1962“Alive; we’re alive, dear: it’s(kiss me now)spring!”