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Top trending wedding readings #WeddingTok #PoetryTok
With wedding season upon us, and many people looking for reading inspiration, the experts at Poem Analysis have found the top trending (and least cheesy) wedding readings on TikTok!
There are 140.4 million views for the search 'best wedding readings' so you're not the only one if you're struggling with the right words to say on your big day! What's more, there's been 2.6 billion views and counting on #PoetryTok and #WeddingTok has 7.4 billion views and rising with advice for every element of your big day, and 140.4 million of those views are for the search 'best wedding readings'.
Our Souls Are Mirrors, by Rupi Kaur tiktok.com/@smelltheflowers_/video/7237415313250241810 (21.7k views)
Rupi Kaur is one of the most well-known modern poets and is always popular on TikTok - #rupikaur has 290 million views. Her poem Our Souls Are Mirrors is the perfect, romantic way to describe how you feel about your other half.
god must have kneaded you and I
from the same dough
rolled us out as one on the baking sheet
must have suddenly realised
how unfair it was
to put that much magic in one person
and sadly split that dough in two
how else is it that
when i look in the mirror
i am looking at you
when you breathe my own lungs fill with air
that we just met but we have known each other our whole lives
if we were not made as one to begin with.
Rupi Kaur is one of the most well-known modern poets and is always popular on TikTok - #rupikaur has 290 million views. Her poem Our Souls Are Mirrors is the perfect, romantic way to describe how you feel about your other half.
god must have kneaded you and I
from the same dough
rolled us out as one on the baking sheet
must have suddenly realised
how unfair it was
to put that much magic in one person
and sadly split that dough in two
how else is it that
when i look in the mirror
i am looking at you
when you breathe my own lungs fill with air
that we just met but we have known each other our whole lives
if we were not made as one to begin with.
The Passion & Written on the Body, by Jeanette Winterson tiktok.com/@clairelawrencecelebrant/video/7226087677915909403 (12.5k views)
This TikToker, who is a wedding celebrant and has many videos with suggestions of readings, has taken two pieces by Jeanette Winterson and put them together. She says it's good for couples who want something romantic that captures the all-encompassing nature of love, without being clichéd.
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean?
It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling
It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read
Wordlessly, she explains me to myself
Like genius, she is ignorant of what she does
In the heat of her hands I thought,
This is the campfire that mocks the sun
This place will warm me, feed me and care for me
I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms.
The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm.
This TikToker, who is a wedding celebrant and has many videos with suggestions of readings, has taken two pieces by Jeanette Winterson and put them together. She says it's good for couples who want something romantic that captures the all-encompassing nature of love, without being clichéd.
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean?
It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling
It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read
Wordlessly, she explains me to myself
Like genius, she is ignorant of what she does
In the heat of her hands I thought,
This is the campfire that mocks the sun
This place will warm me, feed me and care for me
I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms.
The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm.
from She is the Poem: sapphic poetry, by June Bates tiktok.com/@soul.words/video/7228683962674154757 (1.3m views)
June Bates book, She Is The Poem: sapphic poetry on love and becoming is described as a 'love letter to women', with topics including coming out, finding yourself, and femininity. With 1.3 million views, this short piece is extremely popular, describing the comfort of real love.
The first time I really let myself
fall in love with a woman,
I didn't feel butterflies.
I never felt nervous.
The moment I was in her arms,
I knew
I was home.
June Bates book, She Is The Poem: sapphic poetry on love and becoming is described as a 'love letter to women', with topics including coming out, finding yourself, and femininity. With 1.3 million views, this short piece is extremely popular, describing the comfort of real love.
The first time I really let myself
fall in love with a woman,
I didn't feel butterflies.
I never felt nervous.
The moment I was in her arms,
I knew
I was home.
The hot priest speech, Fleabag tiktok.com/@consultingshauna/video/7108599410665327877 (443.9k views)
The hot priest stole everyone's hearts in 2019, and his perfect description of how rough love can be is still filling TikTok with romantic hope four years later.
Love is awful. It's awful. It's painful. It's frightening. It makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life. It makes you selfish. It makes you creepy, makes you obsessed with your hair, makes you cruel, makes you say and do things you never thought you would do. It's all any of us want, and it's hell when we get there. So no wonder it's something we don't want to do on our own. I was taught if we're born with love then life is about choosing the right place to put it. People talk about that a lot, feeling right, when it feels right it's easy. But I'm not sure that's true. It takes strength to know what's right. And love isn't something that weak people do. Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope. I think what they mean is, when you find somebody that you love, it feels like hope.
The hot priest stole everyone's hearts in 2019, and his perfect description of how rough love can be is still filling TikTok with romantic hope four years later.
Love is awful. It's awful. It's painful. It's frightening. It makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life. It makes you selfish. It makes you creepy, makes you obsessed with your hair, makes you cruel, makes you say and do things you never thought you would do. It's all any of us want, and it's hell when we get there. So no wonder it's something we don't want to do on our own. I was taught if we're born with love then life is about choosing the right place to put it. People talk about that a lot, feeling right, when it feels right it's easy. But I'm not sure that's true. It takes strength to know what's right. And love isn't something that weak people do. Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope. I think what they mean is, when you find somebody that you love, it feels like hope.
Vows for a New Generation, by K. C. Kennings tiktok.com/@k.c.kennings/video/7016545560354196741 (423.7k views)
A beautiful and unconventional twist on the usual vows, Vows for a New Generation is a short but beautiful way to modernise your 'I Dos'.
I take you for better, for worse,
In sickness and in health,
and chaos and conflict,
Through heaven and hell.
Should this world end, in atom bomb flashes,
we will watch it together,
through rose tinted glasses
A beautiful and unconventional twist on the usual vows, Vows for a New Generation is a short but beautiful way to modernise your 'I Dos'.
I take you for better, for worse,
In sickness and in health,
and chaos and conflict,
Through heaven and hell.
Should this world end, in atom bomb flashes,
we will watch it together,
through rose tinted glasses
Crazy in love, Beyoncé tiktok.com/@welcometoplot146/video/7015897760662555910 (11.3k views)
Bring a little of the Renaissance World Tour to your big day with a spoken word rendition of Beyoncé's Crazy In Love, as this TikToker did at a friend's ceremony.
I look and stare so deep in your eyes
I touch on you more and more every time
When you leave, I'm begging you not to go
Call your name two, three times in a row
Such a funny thing for me to try to explain
How I'm feeling and my pride is the one to blame
'cause I know I don't understand
Just how your love can do what no one else can.
Bring a little of the Renaissance World Tour to your big day with a spoken word rendition of Beyoncé's Crazy In Love, as this TikToker did at a friend's ceremony.
I look and stare so deep in your eyes
I touch on you more and more every time
When you leave, I'm begging you not to go
Call your name two, three times in a row
Such a funny thing for me to try to explain
How I'm feeling and my pride is the one to blame
'cause I know I don't understand
Just how your love can do what no one else can.
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No Planets Collided In The Making Of This Love, by Claire Lawrence tiktok.com/@clairelawrencecelebrant/video/7231554192769436955 (21.7k views)
The poet describes this as "really great for somebody who's got a really slow burning love"; it's a beautiful poem about how love can happen slowly, through every day life, rather than love at first sight.
No planets collided in the making of this love
No stars aligned
No meteors shrieked across a wish-laden sky
Only two people climbing a mountain of life
Holding out a hand when one fell behind
Shining with pride when one forged ahead
And finding that there was space for two to climb in unison
Building togetherness on the level spaces of quiet moments
Of takeaway decisions, rainy day coffees, online forms, and lost keys
Amidst specks of dazzling joy-rained bliss
And unexpected kisses in the softness of sleep
Reaching heights they could never reach alone
Climbing higher
Until all around them the stars came out
Illuminating their love
