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Wednesday Wedspiration: long readings for your wedding that DON’T suck
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Wednesday Wedspiration: long readings for your wedding that DON’T suck

By Mell 3rd of October, 2018

Our wedspiring wedding readings mini-series has looked at romantic wedding readings that aren’t cheesy, wedding reading ideas from children’s books, and geeky readings, with references to zombies, time travel, and, erm, three-ways. (Edit for your own audience as required!)

Today, we carry on with some long, non-traditional wedding readings. Nothing sappy. Nothing soppy. And nothing you’ll have heard at the past five weddings you went to.

Long non-traditional wedding readings

  • All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulgham
  • Excerpt from The Sandman, Volume 9 by Neil Gaiman
  • Yes, I’ll Marry You by Pam Ayres
  • An excerpt from the notebook of Charles Darwin

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Title image by Ashley Schulze.

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