# I need a great, unique wedding reading

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 28, 2010, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-great-unique-wedding-reading/558636 "2010-10-28T08:23:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-great-unique-wedding-reading/558636/21 "2010-11-02T15:48:52Z")

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Roy Croft … not unique, but wonderful none the less

I love you  
Not only for what you are  
But for what I am  
When I am with you.

[http://thinkexist.com/quotation/i-love-you-not-only-for-what-you-are-but-for-what/1602010.html](http://thinkexist.com/quotation/i-love-you-not-only-for-what-you-are-but-for-what/1602010.html)

Also Anne Bradstreet

If ever two were one, then surely we.  
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;  
If ever wife was happy in a man,  
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.

[http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215687/Anne%20Bradstreet.htm](http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215687/Anne%20Bradstreet.htm)

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**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-great-unique-wedding-reading/558636/22 "2010-11-02T16:28:19Z")

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Well, if you’re feeling that ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ are kind of narrow baggage-laden definitions of how two people can be together, here’s Jonathan Richman on it:

When I say ‘wife’  
it’s cause I can’t find another word  
for the way we be  
but ‘wife’ sounds like you’re mortgaged  
‘wife’ sounds like laundry  
…  
When I say ‘wife’  
it’s cause if you said ‘lover’ every day  
you’re gonna begin to gag  
…  
[Full lyrics at [http://homepage.mac.com/ramonrempel/JoJo/songs/w/whenisaywife.html](http://homepage.mac.com/ramonrempel/JoJo/songs/w/whenisaywife.html)]

Or, similarly but more seriously,  
“Why Get Married At All” by Marge Piercy from her collection “My Mother’s Body”.  
Can’t find it on line, unfortunately, but similar.

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