Time In a Bottle by Jim Croce

Time In A Bottle by Jim Croce is actually a song but it works so well as wedding reading because of the beautiful lyrics of the song. The song is about capturing time and wanting to spend every moment of time with the one person you love above all else. The lines “If I had a box just for wishes / And dreams that had never come true / The box would be empty / Except for the memory of how they were answered by you” reflects how every dream and wish has come true because they get to spend time with their true love. Because this wedding reading is also a song, you could play an instrumental version of the song at the same time as the speaker reads it out or is sung at your ceremony. If this wedding reading is the one for you, you can download a PDF of the reading for free. 

Time In a Bottle

By Jim Croce

If I could save time in a bottle

The first thing that I'd like to do

Is to save every day 'til eternity passes away

Just to spend them with you

If I could make days last forever

If words could make wishes come true

I'd save every day like a treasure, and then

Again, I would spend them with you

But there never seems to be enough time

To do the things you want to do once you find them

I've looked around enough to know

That you're the one I want to go through time with

If I had a box just for wishes

And dreams that had never come true

The box would be empty

Except for the memory of how they were answered by you

But there never seems to be enough time

To do the things you want to do once you find them

I've looked around enough to know

That you're the one I want to go through time with

Time In A Bottle by Jim Croce is one of the more romantic wedding readings we included in our roundup of modern wedding readings. If you’re a fan of big romantic declarations of love, you’ll also like our 16 wedding readings about love.