My favourite wedding reading

I tell couples when they ask about wedding readings that I am more than capable of creating an awesome wedding ceremony without a reading, so if you're going to have one, let it be awesome and read by someone who gets it and can read it with excitement.

And my favourite wedding reading is by Dr Seuss: Oh The Places You'll Go.

Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the two who’ll decide where to go.
You’ll look up and down streets. Look’em over with care. About some you will say, “I don’t choose to go there.” With your heads full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down a not-so-good street.
And you may not find any you’ll want to go down. In that case, of course, you’ll head straight out of town. It’s opener there in the wide open air.
Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as you.
And when things start to happen, don’t worry. Don’t stew. Just go right along. You’ll start happening too.
Oh! The Places You’ll Go!

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And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.)
Kids, you’ll move mountains!
So…be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ale Van Allen O’Shea {insert the couples name here}, you’re off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So ... get on your way!

💍 Josh Withers is an Australian wedding celebrant based in Hobart who travels the world every week creating meaningful, fun, and honest marriage ceremonies for adventurous couples just like you.

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