Traditional Chinese Wedding Vows
Groom, are you willing to take Bride, as your wife, in sacred marriage together for life? Whether she has sickness or health, poverty or wealth, beauty or is plain, in good times and in bad, are you willing to love her, to comfort her, to respect her/him, and protect her/him? And willing to be forever loyal to her/him? Bride, are you willing to take Groom, as your husband, in sacred marriage together for life? Whether he, has sickness or health, poverty or wealth, beauty or is plain, in good times and in bad, are you willing to love him, to him, to respect him, and protect him? And willing to be forever loyal to him? I do not claim to be the original author of this script. I am sharing it like this to make it easier for anyone to use. Click here for more Asian Wedding Readings Excerpt from Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu Without words, without even understanding, lovers find each other. ...The moment of finding is always a surprise, like meeting an old friend never before known. I do not claim to be the original author of this script. I am sharing it like this to make it easier for anyone to use. Click here for more Asian Wedding Readings Excerpt from Tao Te Ching
Explore and discover that which is within. When we find ourselves, we are more easily found by others. I do not claim to be the original author of this script. I am sharing it like this to make it easier for anyone to use. Click here for more Asian Wedding Readings When Two People Are at One
from I Ching by Fu Xi When two people are at one in their inmost hearts They shatter even the strength of iron or of bronze And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts Their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids. I do not claim to be the original author of this script. I am sharing it like this to make it easier for anyone to use. Click here for more Asian Wedding Readings Prayer for Peace
by Lao-Tse If there is to be peace in the world, There must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, There must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors, There must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart. I do not claim to be the original author of this script. I am sharing it like this to make it easier for anyone to use. Click here for more Asian Wedding Readings Plucking the Rushes
A boy and a girl are sent to gather rushes for thatching Green rushes with red shoots Long leaves bending to the wind – You and I in the same boat Plucking rushes at the Five Lakes. We started at dawn from the orchid-island: We rested under elms till noon. You and I plucking rushes Had not plucked a handful when night came! I do not claim to be the original author of this script. I am sharing it like this to make it easier for anyone to use. Click here for more Asian Wedding Readings Oath of Friendship by Anonymous, China, 1st Century BC I want to be your friend For ever and ever without break or decay. When the hills are all flat And the rivers are all dry, When it lightens and thunders in winter, When it rains and snows in summer, When Heaven and Earth mingle Not 'til then will I part from you. I do not claim to be the original author of this script. I am sharing it like this to make it easier for anyone to use. Click here for more Asian Wedding Readings Chinese Wedding Poem
I want to be your friend forever and ever When the hills are all flat And the rivers run dry When the trees blossom in winter And the snow falls in summer When heaven and earth mix Not till then will part from you. I do not claim to be the original author of this script. I am sharing it like this to make it easier for anyone to use. Click here for more Asian Wedding Readings |
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