Your Wedding Readings Toll for Thee!

in #family6 years ago (edited)

Hi friends!

My cousin's awesome little wedding was held at a wine warehouse in Minneapolis a couple weeks ago, and I'm not sure he knew it but I just love words -- they turn me on, I get jazzed letting them bounce around in my mind like clothes in the dryer, seeking new meanings and points of view.

Well, I was honored and humbled that he and his wife chose me to read at their wedding, and when I got the reading and saw it was a beautiful passage from Hemingway, not the Bible, I got very excited and picked apart the prose for meaning, learning and analyzing it with more than one person.

I think I'll keep this tradition and choose some of my favorite non-biblical passages to be read at my wedding. Maybe some Emerson, or the Tao te Ching.

In any case, here's what they chose -- I admit that by the time I read it for the crowd I got a little emotional (from A Farewell to Arms):

“At night, there was the feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away; all other things were unreal. We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone. Often a man wishes to be alone and a woman wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. We were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.”

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Congrats Nate and Emily!

Love,

Joe

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