Funny Wedding Readings To Give Your Guests A Giggle

Sometimes wedding ceremonies, whilst joyous, can be a little a bit laden with the enormity of what's about to happen. Sometimes the room can feel full of all the love but still confined by the tradition of the ceremony. Sometimes it's good to break that all up with a bit of a laugh. If having a laugh and subsequently relaxing your guests is important to both you and your other half, then you might want to include one of these beautiful yet hilariously funny wedding readings at your wedding ceremony.

Love Me

by Bee Rawlinson

First up, probably the naughtiest one on the list, but side-splittingly good and with the sweetest ending.

Love me when I'm old and shocking
Peel off my elastic stockings
Swing me from the chandeliers
Let's be randy bad old dears.
Push around my chromed bath chair
Let me tease your white chest hair
Scaring children, swapping dentures
Let us have some great adventures
Take me to the dogs and bingo
Teach me how to speak the lingo
Bone my eels and bring me tea
Show me how it's meant to be
Take me to your special places
Watching all the puzzled faces
You in shorts and socks and sandals
Me with warts and huge love-handles
As the need for love enthrals
Wrestle with my damp proof smalls
Make me laugh without constraint
Buy me chocolate body paint
Hold me safe throughout the night
When my hair has turned to white
Believe me when I say it's true
I've waited all my life for you  

 

Poem

by Ogden Nash

Short, sweet, to the point guidance for both halves.

To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.  

 

'Yes, I'll Marry You'

by Pam Ayres

One of the more popular funny wedding readings and with good reason!

Yes, I'll marry you, my dear.
And here's the reason why;
So I can push you out of bed
When the baby starts to cry,  
And if we hear a knocking
And it's creepy and it's late,
I hand you the torch you see,
And you investigate.  
Yes, I'll marry you, my dear,
You may not apprehend it,
But when the tumble-drier goes
It's you that has to mend it,  
You have to face the neighbour
Should our labrador attack him,
And if a drunkard fondles me
It's you that has to whack him.  
Yes, I'll marry you,
You're virile and you're lean,
My house is like a pigsty
You can help to keep it clean.  
That sexy little dinner
Which you served by candlelight,
As I do chipolatas,
You can cook it every night!  
It's you who has to work the drill
And put up curtain track,
And when I've got PMT
It's you who gets the flak,  
I do see great advantages,
But none of them for you,
And so before you see the light,
I do, I do, I do!  

 

Falling In Love Is Like Owning A dog

by Taylor Mali

A fantastic and highly relatable funny wedding reading for all the dog loving couples out there.

Falling in love is like owning a dog
First of all, it’s a big responsibility, especially in a city like [insert city].
So think long and hard before deciding on love.  

On the other hand, love gives you a sense of security: when you’re walking down the street late at night and you have a leash on love ‘ain’t no one going to mess with you.  

Because crooks and muggers think love is unpredictable. Who knows what love could do in its own defence?  

On cold winter nights, love is warm. It lies between you and lives and breathes and makes funny noises.
Love wakes you up all hours of the night with its needs. It needs to be fed so it will grow and stay healthy.  

Love doesn’t like being left alone for long. But come home and love is always happy to see you.
It may break a few things accidentally in its passion for life, but you can never be mad at love for long.  

Is love good all the time? No! No!
Love can be bad.
Bad, love, bad!
Very bad love.  

Love makes messes. Love leaves you little surprises here and there.
Love needs lots of cleaning up after. Sometimes you just want to get love fixed.
Sometimes you want to roll up a piece of newspaper and swat love on the nose, not so much to cause pain, just to let love know don’t you ever do that again!  

Sometimes love just wants to go for a nice long walk. Because love loves exercise.
It runs you around the block and leaves you panting. It pulls you in several different directions at once, or winds around and around you until you’re all wound up and can’t move.  

But love makes you meet people wherever you go. People who have nothing in common but love stop and talk to each other on the street.
Throw things away and love will bring them back, again, and again, and again.  

But most of all, love needs love, lots of it.
And in return, love loves you and never stops  

 

I Wanna Be Yours

by John Cooper Clarke

A light-hearted, whimsical wedding reading for those who don't want anything too fluffy.

I wanna be your vacuum cleaner
breathing in your dust
I wanna be your Ford Cortina
I will never rust  

If you like your coffee hot
let me be your coffee pot
You call the shots
I wanna be yours  

I wanna be your raincoat
for those frequent rainy days
I wanna be your dreamboat
when you want to sail away  

Let me be your teddy bear
take me with you anywhere
I don’t care
I wanna be yours  

I wanna be your electric meter
I will not run out
I wanna be the electric heater
you’ll get cold without  

I wanna be your setting lotion
hold your hair in deep devotion
Deep as the deep Atlantic ocean
that’s how deep is my devotion  

 

All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

by Robert Fulghum

Full of eternal wisdom relatable by everyone, with a nice little nod to companionship at the end.

All of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.  

These are the things I learned…
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Give them to someone who feels sad.
Live a balanced life.
Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day.
Take a nap every afternoon.
Be aware of wonder.  

Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.  

And it is still true, no matter how old you are when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.  

 

A Good Wedding Cake Recipe

by Anon

It's a shame that the attribution for this is nowhere to be found, it's a brilliantly funny wedding reading

4lb of love
1lb of good looks
1/2lb of sweet temper
1lb of butter of youth
1lb of blindness of faults
1lb of pounded wit
1lb of good humour
2lbs of sweet argument
1 pint of rippling laughter
1 wine glass of common sense
A dash of modesty

Put the love, good looks and a sweet temper into a well-furnished house. Beat the butter of youth into a cream and mix well together with the blindness of faults. Stir the pounded wit and good humour into the sweet argument, then add the rippling laughter and common sense. Work it together until everything is well mixed and bake gently forever.  

 

He Never Leaves The Seat Up

by Anon

If you find you share a resemblance with the characters in this wedding reading then, by all means, give your guests a laugh.

He never leaves the seat up
Or wet towels upon the floor
The toothpaste has the lid on
And he always shuts the door!  

She’s very clean and tidy
Though she may sometimes delude
Leave your things out at your peril
In a second they’ll have moved!  

He’s a very active person
As are all his next of kin
Whereas she likes lazy days
He’ll still drag her to the gym!  

He romances her and dines her
Home-cooked dinners and the like
He even knows her favourite food
And spoils her day and night!  

She’s thoughtful when he looks at her
A smile upon his face
Will he look that good in 50 years
When his dentures aren’t in place?!  

He says he loves her figure
And her mental prowess too
But when gravity takes her over
Will she charm with her IQ?  

She says she loves his kindness
And his patience is a must
And of course, she thinks he’s handsome
Which in her eyes is a plus!  

They’re both not wholly perfect
But who are we to judge
He can be pig-headed
Whereas she won’t even budge!  

All that said and done
They love the time they spent together
And I hope as I’m sure you do
That this fine day will last forever.  

He’ll be more than just her husband
He’ll also be her friend
And she’ll be more than just his wife
She'll be his soul mate – till the end.  

 

I’ll Be There For You

by Louise Cuddon

Not to be confused by the famous Friends theme tune (although that would make a funny wedding reading itself!), this reading does a great job at painting a picture of life's realities.

I’ll be there my darling, through thick and through thin
When your mind’s in a mess and your head’s in a spin
When your plane’s been delayed, and you’ve missed the last train.
When life is just threatening to drive you insane  

When your thrilling whodunit has lost its last page
When somebody tells you, you’re looking your age
When your coffee’s too cool, and your wine is too warm
When the forecast said “Fine”, but you’re out in a storm  

When your quick break hotel, turns into a slum
And your holiday photos show only your thumb
When you park for five minutes in a resident’s bay
And return to discover you’ve been towed away  

When the jeans that you bought in hope or in haste
Just stick on your hips and don’t reach around your waist
When the food you most like brings you out in red rashes
When as soon as you boot up the bloody thing crashes  

So my darling, my sweetheart, my dear…
When you break a rule, when you act the fool
When you’ve got the flu, when you’re in a stew
When you’re last in the queue, don’t feel blue

’cause I’m telling you, I’ll be there.  

 

Marriage

by Anon

Another ode to the realities of daily married life

Marriage is about giving and taking
And forging and forsaking
Kissing and loving and pushing and shoving
Caring and sharing and screaming and swearing
About being together whatever the weather
About being driven to the end of your tether
About sweetness and kindness
And wisdom and blindness  

It’s about being strong when you’re feeling quite weak
It’s about saying nothing when you’re dying to speak
It’s about being wrong when you know you are right
It’s about giving in, before there’s a fight
It’s about you two living as cheaply as one
(you can give us a call if you know how that’s done!)  

Never heeding advice that was always well-meant
Never counting the cost until it’s all spent
And for you two today it’s about to begin
And for all that the two of you had to put in
Some days filled with joy, and some days with sadness
Too late you’ll discover that marriage is madness.  

 

I Like You

by Sandol Stoddard Warburg

And finally one of our absolute favourite funny wedding readings that discloses the intimacies of marriage.

I like you and I know why
I like you because you are a good person to like
I like you because when I tell you something special, you know it’s special
And you remember it a long, long time
You say, Remember when you told me something special
And both of us remember  

When I think something is important you think it’s important too
We have good ideas
When I say something funny, you laugh
I think I’m funny and you think I’m funny too
Hah-hah!  

I like you because you know where I’m ticklish
And you don’t tickle me there except just a little tiny bit sometimes
But if you do, then I know where to tickle you too
You know how to be silly - that’s why I like you
If I am getting ready to pop a paper bag,
then you are getting ready to jump
HOORAY  

I like you because when I am feeling sad
You don’t always cheer me up right away
Sometimes it is better to be sad
You can’t stand the others being so googly and gaggly every single minute
You want to think about things
It takes time  

I like you because if I am mad at you
Then you are mad at me too
It’s awful when the other person isn’t
They are so nice and oooh you could just about punch them on the nose  

I can’t remember when I didn’t like you
It must have been lonesome then
Even if it was the 999th of July
Even if it was August
Even if it was way down at the bottom of November
I would go on choosing you
And you would go on choosing me
Over and over again
And that’s how it would happen every time

Did this help you find some funny wedding readings?

If that round-up of funny wedding readings isn’t enough for you, we have also recorded an entire Rock My Wedding Podcast episode about Wedding Readings here. Enjoy! And here are those funny wedding readings pins we promised you.