Unique Wedding Readings

If you have been to enough weddings to mouth along to 1 Corinthians, this is the collection for you. These are readings that are rarely heard at weddings but deserve to be: a Jacobean wedding song, a Quaker founder’s advice, the myth that gave us “my other half,” a nineteenth-century Black poet from Charleston echoing the marriage vows.

Unfamiliar doesn’t mean obscure for its own sake. Every piece here reads clearly the first time a guest hears it, and every note gives your reader enough context to introduce it in a sentence if they want to.