Wedding Invitation Wording Ideas with Poems

To My Sister on Her Day

Today Is the Wedding

Today is the birth
Of a new family:
One that will fashion
The one I will be.

And so as we welcome
A new man and wife,
I welcome a father*
Whose love changed my life.

I welcome a future
Together as three:
My mother and father
United with me.

*Feel free to change to "mother."

We Are a Family Now

I do not love you differently,
Nor would I give up less
Of all that life has given me
To bring you happiness.

There is no limit to my love,
No boundary you might cross,
No price you might be asked to pay,
No need to fear its loss.

We are now one, the four of us,
Windows of one home.
As long as I have life and breath,
You'll never be alone.

Wedding Vows

I vow to tell you what is true
That you might touch whom you embrace
Because I love and cherish you.

I vow to put aside my view
And paint my portrait from your place:
These things I promise I will do.

And when you must your dreams renew,
I vow to give you ample space
Because I love and cherish you.

I vow to make our battles few
And love the child behind the face:
These things I promise I will do.

And that we might make one of two,
Too deep to know, too vast to trace,
Because I love and cherish you,
These things I promise I will do.

2. These things I promise I will do
That life may grant you ample grace
Because I love and cherish you:

I vow to treasure what is true
That I might touch whom I embrace:
These things I promise I will do.

I'll build a garden in your view
That with sweet fruit will stone replace
Because I love and cherish you.

I vow to love each day anew,
For love must dance through time and space:
These things I promise I will do.

I vow to make your terrors few
And then with you those demons face
Because I love and cherish you.

And now, as we make one of two,
A passage we cannot retrace,
These things I promise I will do
Because I love and cherish you.

You Are Our Knight in Shining Armor

You are the pillar of our hopes,
The deep bass of our song,
The strength that underlies our strength,
The calm for which we long.

You came into our house of dreams
And turned it into truth,
Entering at just the point
Where yearning shatters youth.

What could motivate someone
To bear another's load
But that most beautiful of lights,
The inner lamp of love.

Your Love Must Be an Ocean and a Stream

Your Presence Is Requested

You will witness something more
Than ordinary life:
The transformation of two souls
Into a man and wife.

Your Wedding Is a Morning and an Evening

So life turns, and so our fond rejoicing
Has always the sweet pungency of time.
We come and go within a tidal longing
That sweeps our hearts beyond what we can be.

So beautiful a moment is forever!
We are in awe, and know not what it means.
Time parts around the rock of celebration
On which we stand to wish you joy and love.

To My Sister on Her Wedding Day

Today's a Day of Love Not Just for Us

Vested in Your Heart Is All My Hope

We Met as Merely Words upon a Screen

We fell in love the best way, sight unseen,
Pure hunger that nor feast nor flesh could sate,
Two hidden flames fair fed by phrases burning.

Most find their way by sight into the heart,
Loving first what must most quickly change
And only then what will the years endure.

We did the opposite, though not by art,
Taking steps that we did not arrange
Along a path both passionate and sure.

Welcome to Our Family

Dear lover of the child we love,
Whom we now love as if our own,
Come share with us what time will prove
And make our house and hearts your home.

Whom we now love as if our own
Because on you our own has smiled,
Come make our house and hearts your home
And be to us another child.

Because on you our own has smiled,
Come join us in what is to be
And be to us another child.
Welcome to our family!

When You Were Just a Lad of Twenty

Well, that was but eight years ago,
And here you are today:
The partner of a lovely bride,
A groom in full array!

A thousand dollars is my prize
Now you've been proven wrong.
The moral is: it's never wise
To think you are too strong

To be touched by the beauty of
An unrestrained affection.
You lost your bet, but won your love:
Now here's to your selection!

You Are the Mirror of My Past

You are yourself, of course, no less,
But also you are mine,
The light of all my treasured days,
The gift for which I pine.

Long may we this closeness share,
This place where memories play,
And if our friendship needs repair,
May love reveal the way.

And now that you're to be a wife
With loves and passions new,
May you find in your sweet life
The joy I have in you.

You Finally Found Each Other

How can you know the someone whom
You'll cherish throughout life?
What indices identify
A husband or a wife?

Sometimes there's a gravity:
Sudden, fierce, obsessed;
As if you're falling towards some star,
By its strong pull possessed.

Or sometimes there's a childhood sense
Of unselfconscious grace
Sustained within the safety zone
Of unprovoked embrace.

Sometimes there's the terror of
The searing pain of grief,
As if the loss of love were death:
Sheer scream without relief.

Or there's a sense of loveliness
Too precious to be lost:
A gift of all that makes life good,
Beyond constraint or cost.

Whatever signs you read, they all
Point in the same direction:
The self that lies beyond the self
In love and shared affection.

True love lies far beyond the will,
Yet you must choose to love:
Each day to put aside the self
And with the angels move.

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