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Make your guests laugh AND cry with these unique wedding readings! We’ve got funny wedding readings, whimsical wedding readings, and tons of other unique wedding reading ideas. Check our Ceremony Advice archive for more tips on how to create your wedding ceremony.

Wedding readings from books as seen on @offbeatbride

17 wedding readings from literature for bookish couples

Bookish couples: we know you and we love you. So we’re sharing a whole new batch of killer wedding readings just for you. We’ve got wedding readings from literature including the classics, children’s books, and even some young adult novels. Yep, love inspiration is errrrrywhere on bookshelves these days. Let’s get to these academic, erudite, and downright adorable wedding readings.

Romantic wedding readings as seen on @offbeatbride

Ultra romantic wedding readings (with some real talk) from some of our favorite offbeat weddings

We trawled through our archives to find romantic wedding readings (and some with some real talk) that we hadn’t yet featured in our pretty substantial archive of wedding readings. Boy did we find some. From vacuum cleaners and mashed potatoes to onions and Bob Marley, love means a lot of things to a lot of people. See if any of these readings strike the right chord for your ceremony.

Fantasy and sci-fi wedding readings as seen on @offbeatbride

Getting our pon farr on: 8 nerdtastic fantasy and sci-fi wedding readings

We’ve covered a TON of geeky love quotes that you can nab for your vows and ceremony, but what about sci-fi and fantasy wedding readings? We’ve found some geeky, science-y, and fantasy-loving readings to fill your nerd heart with joy. Get ready for Neil Gaiman, Phillip Pulman, Douglas Adams, and more of your speculative fiction specialists extolling the virtues of lurve. Let’s get our pon farr on.

Announce that all are welcome with this simple wedding greeting

If you’re searching for a way to show solidarity with loved ones or simply a way to announce that your wedding is a safe space for all, steal this greeting.

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Proudfeet! Turning Bilbo’s birthday speech into geektacular vows

Remember Proudfeet from Bilbo’s birthday speech in Lord of the Rings? Heather and John, instead of using traditional vows, decided to adapt the awesome speech for their ceremony, including a perfectly-timed shout-out to “Proudfeet.” See how they did it!

nature themed ceremony alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

A ceremony script that harnesses the power and the beauty of nature

In particular, I wanted to highlight the importance of nature and beauty in my ceremony, and I couldn’t find anything that addressed that. So, I decided to write those sections myself. If other couples are looking for something similar, I wanted to offer what I came up with as inspiration. Feel free to copy or use this as a basis for your own ceremony scripts…