Wedding Readings from Literature
Wedding readings from novels and letters — Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Mark Twain, Tolstoy and Hawthorne — printed in full with context.
A passage from a novel can say something about marriage that no poem quite manages, because novelists have room to show what love looks like after the wedding: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane, ten years married; George Eliot on what greater thing there is for two human souls; Adam’s last words over Eve in Mark Twain’s diary. These are readings for couples who met in a bookshop, or who simply read.
Each excerpt is cut at a natural point so it can be read aloud without explanation, and each note tells you where it comes from and what is happening in the story, so the reader knows what they are saying.