A Blessing for a Marriage Wedding Reading
A Blessing for a Marriage by James Billet Freeman is a wonderful wedding reading that is all about the well wishes and hopes the speaker has for the couple as they go into their marriage together. This wedding reading is more of a modern take because as much as it is romantic, optimistic and hopeful, it still speaks about the couple maintaining their individuality. It points out healthy boundaries and positive affirmations that the couple stick with each other out of love and not out of weakness or lack. If this is the wedding reading for you, download our PDF below, so you can print it off and take it straight to your ceremony.
Blessing for a Marriage
By James Billet Freeman
May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.
May you always need one another – not so much to fill your emptiness as to help you to know your fullness.
A mountain needs a valley to be complete;
the valley does not make the mountain less, but more;
and the valley is more a valley because it has a mountain towering over it.
So let it be with you and you.
May you need one another, but not out of weakness.
May you want one another, but not out of lack.
May you entice one another, but not compel one another.
May you embrace one another, but not out encircle one another.
May you succeed in all important ways with one another,
and not fail in the little graces.
May you look for things to praise, often say, “I love you!”
and take no notice of small faults.
If you have quarrels that push you apart, may both of you hope to have good sense enough to take the first step back.
May you enter into the mystery, which is the awareness of one another’s presence — no more physical than spiritual,
warm and near when you are side by side,
and warm and near when you are in separate rooms or even distant cities.
May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy.
May you have love, and may you find it loving one another.
If you like A Blessing for a Marriage by James Billet Freeman, then you’ll like our modern wedding readings roundup with 13 more readings similar to this one. You may want to use this wedding poem as inspiration for your wedding vows. The beautiful and poetic language that speaks on promises and hopes for the future is ideal for using as inspo if you’re writing your own personalised wedding vows or in any speeches!
