Wedding Invitations

Verses For Wedding Invitations

The etiquette is defined as the practice or form prescribed by a social convention or by authority.

Some might know or some might not, but the etiquette applies even in the case of wedding ceremonies and more exactly in sending the wedding invitations.

There is a strong wording etiquette for wedding invitations, inherited from medieval times. The tradition of sending wedding invitation cards dates back several centuries ago, more exactly in the eighteen century, when English aristocracy had the custom of sending matrimonial cards to the queen, the king or some other members from the high society.

The text on the wedding could either be hand-written, giving it a classic appearance, or engraved. The rules for writing a wedding invitation are less strict today, even if you choose to have a classic or a less conventional wedding ceremony.

The wedding invitation should contain the basic information about the couple who is about to get married, the name of their families, the exact date, time and location of the wedding ceremony; it’s up to you if you want to use the formal wording which applies in your case or a simple one. Even if you follow the wording etiquette or not you can always add a personal touch to your wedding invitations by writing some poetry lines, verses or favorite quotes.

Below I’ll give some examples of poems and verses you can always choose for the wedding invitations.

If you like English classic literature, here are some verses from Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe:

The passionate Shepherd to his love by Christopher Marlowe
”Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That valleys, groves, hills and fields,
Woods or steepy mountains yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses,
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool,
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair-lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs;
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.

The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning;
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.”

Shall I compare thee? by W. Shakespeare

“Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?
Thou are more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d:

But thy eternal Summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

The Chinese philosophers and classic writers have some wise sayings, but they are also very good in describing powerful feelings such as love; Kuan Tao-Sheng lived in the 13^th century and wrote one of China’s most beautiful love poems: Married Love.

“You and I
Have so much love
That it
Burns like a fire,
In which we bake a lump of clay
Molded into a figure of you
And a figure of me.
Then we take both of them,
And break them into pieces,
And mix the pieces with water,
And mold again a figure of you,
And a figure of me.
I am in your clay.
You are in my clay.
In life we share a single quilt.
In death we will share one bed.”

The verses fit for a wedding invitation are so many that the list could go on without stopping. Above I mentioned just a few of those important love poems, withstanding the changes of time.