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tree_and_leafWas wandering round the second hand bookshops in town today, when I came across a little book of "Readings for your Wedding" (in English).
I think they'd been chosen, in many cases, by googling 'Love', because the section suggested for 'highlighting the spiritual aspect of your marriage' started off with a bit of Dante (on the beatific vision), before to proceeding to Walt Whitman (fair enough in one sense, but it's obviously queer and the book was published pre-civil partnerships), then to 'The Good Morrow' (OK, it's about the start of a relationship you mean to be permanent and important - but it's also about waking up after your first night together, and regardless of my love for Donne, and regardless of whether or not I might have slept with my hypothetical husband before marriage, I do not want it read in a situation where assembled hordes of elderly relatives are gathered, and I don't suppose they'd particularly want to contemplate my sex life either), before (passing over the usual suspects from the Prophet) concluding, crashingly, with Herbert's "Love bade me welcome."
Wrong sacrament, guys.
I think they'd been chosen, in many cases, by googling 'Love', because the section suggested for 'highlighting the spiritual aspect of your marriage' started off with a bit of Dante (on the beatific vision), before to proceeding to Walt Whitman (fair enough in one sense, but it's obviously queer and the book was published pre-civil partnerships), then to 'The Good Morrow' (OK, it's about the start of a relationship you mean to be permanent and important - but it's also about waking up after your first night together, and regardless of my love for Donne, and regardless of whether or not I might have slept with my hypothetical husband before marriage, I do not want it read in a situation where assembled hordes of elderly relatives are gathered, and I don't suppose they'd particularly want to contemplate my sex life either), before (passing over the usual suspects from the Prophet) concluding, crashingly, with Herbert's "Love bade me welcome."
Wrong sacrament, guys.
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Date: 2008-07-13 10:01 pm (UTC)"Oh, for God's sake cut out the League of Nations!"
Date: 2008-07-14 07:09 am (UTC)I haven't been to all that many weddings, but an amazingly high proportion of them had 'All things Bright and Beautiful' as the second hymn. I suppose this is what happens when people haven't been to church (except possibly at Christmas) since childhood, and fall back on their memories of school assemblies....
Re: "Oh, for God's sake cut out the League of Nations!"
Date: 2008-07-14 08:32 am (UTC)