Wedding planning is hard when you are not interested in any of the traditional wedding stuff. Searching for wedding 'aisle' alternatives brings up 'rose petals' instead of aisle runners.... ?!!
What if I don't want to walk down an aisle alone in a white dress. Then what?
The answer is, i make my own rules. But still our wedding is getting way more wedding-y than i anticipated.
We've asked our good friend, Juan, to be our officiant. Searching for 'alternative' wedding readings seems to be a little easier.
There's some good ones here: http://weddings.about.com/od/yourweddingceremony/a/NovelReadings.htm
and here: http://weddingreadings.blogspot.com/2008/08/wedding-readings-from-literature-movies.html
This one From "The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams makes me cry. I had to read it over a few times to really understand and feel its power.
"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
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