For the ladies: a wedding poem (and a quote)

Some of the greatest public speakers in history have quoted other people. Why not you?

If it is done well, I see no problem with it. But then I am pretty easy going on such things.

seun said:

True. I suppose my worry is using someone else's work might detract from the value of my poem. Even if the quote fits and the book is a classic.

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I don't see how it would detract as long as you write a good poem. Your poem may be better than any quote could hope to be. I am sure seen through the eyes of love your bride has for you, your words will shine the best. You can always ask for a crit of the poem in the poetry forum too, once you write it. Folks there will help you fine tune it, I bet.

My wife just gave me twenty minutes of why you can quote people in poetry, something about poetry being a conversation between poets. She's real good-published and won a few contest good-but I would say after whatever it was that she just said that you're good to go with this.

Four months. Pfah. No problem then.

seun said:

The speech and vows were hard enough. Now a poem as well. And no dirty jokes in any of them.

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Women can be soooo demanding sometimes.

The only thing worse than having to read poetry is actually having it read to you at a wedding.

Christ, think of your guests man and put your boot down.

John Lennon wrote a song called Grow Old With Me. Some of the lines include, "Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be"--from a poem by Robert Browning.

So if he can do it, you can do it.

By the way the song is played at a lot of weddings. It's a beautiful song.

Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem that I believe was called The Betrothed. He said "A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke."

That might be wedding appropriate.

Women seriously want men to do this?

Unless I was marrying Andrew Motion there's no way I'd want my future husband to write a poem. Chances are it'd be shite.

Good luck, though, mate!

Pleasure!

scarletpeaches, who thinks romantic wank should be kept for private moments.

scarletpeaches said:

Pleasure!

scarletpeaches, who thinks romantic wank should be kept for private moments.

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For the bride and groom it is a private moment. It is just a private moment shared.

Well then it's not private any more, is it?

So no, I'm not typically romantic at all.

To be serious, trying to persuade someone to write a poem seems like emotional extortion to me. Surely it would mean more if it was voluntary?

It is a wedding. All spontaneous moments are well planned.

I said voluntary, not spontaneous.

I don't see any emotional extortion in asking the person you are going to marry to help with an aspect of the wedding. Telling a person what you want is not wrong. It is communication.

Adam Sandler - Grow Old with You Lyrics


I wanna make you smile whenever you're sad
Carry you around when your arthritis is bad
All I wanna do is grow old with you.
I'll get your medicine when your tummy aches
build you a fire if the furnace breaks
Oh it could be so nice, growin old with you.
I'll miss you, kiss you, give you my coat when you are cold.
Need you, feed you, I'll even let you hold the remote control.
So let me do the dishes in the kitchen sink
Put you to bed when you've had too much to drink.
Oh I could be the man to grow old with you.
I wanna grow old with you.



CONGRATS and GOOD WISHES---to my favorite Boston fan

That's beautiful, seun and I know you're soon-to-be wife will love it. Just don't mess it up!