Another really popular wedding reading these days is "i carry your heart with me" by e.e. cummings, who had a penchant for writing in lower case letters and liberal use of parenthesis.

The reading was popularized when Cameron Diaz read it at her sisters wedding in the movie, "In Her Shoes."

It is lovely and romantic, but hard to read for the average person because it is difficult to decide where one thought ends and another begins. So, with apologies to e.e., I usually sort through the sentences and put them into easy to read groupings when a bride asks a friend or relarive to read this at her wedding.

Here's what we did for Michael and Jessica's wedding last weekend. The groom's twin sisters shared the reading, alternating back and forth. The effect was terrific!

Introduction: Now the groom’s sisters Angelina and Stephanie read I Carry Your Heart With Me, by e.e. cummings.

Angelina: i carry your heart with me
(i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it

Stephanie: (anywhere i go you go,my dear;
and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)

Angelina: i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)
i want no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true)

Stephanie: and it's you who are whatever a moon has always meant.
And whatever a sun will always sing is you.

Angelina: here is the deepest secret nobody knows

Stephanie: (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)

Angelina: and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)