Let's talk about romantic love poems. Whether they're expected or unexpected on your big day, our hearts skip a beat when we hear them during wedding ceremonies. Choosing the right love poem that best represents you both is probably one of the BEST ways to make your wedding ceremony personalised to you (aside from reading your personal vows or letters to each other). A love poem can not only set the tone of your wedding ceremony, but also gives your wedding videographer additional content to use in your highlights video, adding an immense amount of value to your wedding film. Here's an example to give you an idea

Now, with all of that aside, here are some of the most unique and romantic love poems to read at your wedding ceremony.

1. "From Beginning to End" Robert Fulghum

   "You have known each other from the first glance of acquaintance to this point of commitment.

   At some point, you decided to marry. From that moment of yes to this moment of yes, indeed, you have been making promises and agreements in an informal way.

   All those conversations that were held riding in a car or over a meal or during long walks—all those sentences that began with “When we’re married” and continued with “I will and you will and we will”—those late night talks that included “someday” and “somehow” and “maybe”—and all those promises that are unspoken matters of the heart.

   All these common things, and more, are the real process of a wedding. The symbolic vows that you are about to make are a way of saying to one another, “You know all those things we’ve promised and hoped and dreamed—well, I meant it all, every word.”

   Look at one another and remember this moment in time. Before this moment you have been many things to one another—acquaintance, friend, companion, lover, dancing partner, and even teacher, for you have learned much from one another in these last few years.

   Now you shall say a few words that take you across a threshold of life, and things will never quite be the same between you. For after these vows, you shall say to the world, this—is my husband, this—is my wife.

2. "Slow Me Down, Lord!," Wilferd A. Peterson

   “Let me look upward

   into the branches of the towering oak

   and know that it is great and strong

   because it grew slowly and well.

   Slow me down, Lord,

   and inspire me to send my roots deep

   into the soil of nature’s enduring values

   that I may grow towards the stars

   of my greater destiny.”

3. "In One Another’s Souls," Rumi

   “The moment I heard my first love story

   I started looking for you,

   not knowing how useless that was.

   Lovers don’t meet somewhere along the way.

   They’re in one another’s souls all along.”

4. "Untitled" Christina Rossetti

   "What is the beginning? Love.

   What the course. Love still.

   What the goal. The goal is Love.

   On a happy hill Is there nothing then but Love? Search we sky or earth

   There is nothing out of Love Hath perpetual worth; All things flag but only Love, All things fail and flee; There is nothing left but Love Worthy you and me"

5. "The Promise" Heather Berry

   “Within this blessed union of souls

   where two hearts intertwine to become one, there lies a promise.

   Perfectly born, divinely created, and intimately shared, it is a place where the hope and majesty of beginnings reside.

   Where all things are made possible by the astounding love shared by two spirits.

   As you hold each other’s hands in this promise, and eagerly look into the future in each other’s eyes, may your unconditional love and devotion take you to places where you’ve both only dreamed.

   Where you’ll dwell for a lifetime of happiness, sheltered in the warmth of each other’s arms.”

6. "I’ll Be There For You" Louise Cuddon

   I’ll be there my darling, through thick and through thin

   When your mind’s in a mess and your head’s in a spin

   When your plane’s been delayed, and you’ve missed the last train.

   When life is just threatening to drive you insane

   When your thrilling whodunit has lost its last page

   When somebody tells you, you’re looking your age

   When your coffee’s too cool, and your wine is too warm

   When the forecast said “Fine”, but you’re out in a storm

   When your quick break hotel, turns into a slum

   And your holiday photos show only your thumb

   When you park for five minutes in a resident’s bay

   And return to discover you’ve been towed away

   When the jeans that you bought in hope or in haste

   Just stick on your hips and don’t reach round your waist

   When the food you most like brings you out in red rashes

   When as soon as you boot up the bloody thing crashes

   So my darling, my sweetheart, my dear…

   When you break a rule, when you act the fool

   When you’ve got the flu, when you’re in a stew

   When you’re last in the queue, don’t feel blue’cause

   I’m telling you, I’ll be there"

7. "I Carry Your Heart With Me" e.e. cummings

   "I carry your heart with me (I carry it inmy heart)

   I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)

   I fearno fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)

   I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

   Here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud-and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows-higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

   I carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)"

As you're researching for the right love poem that represents you both as husband and wife to be, something you should bear in mind is hiring a photographer that also offers filmmaking. We've put a guide together for you which talks in-detail about why you should opt in for a creative service that does both photo+video.