Sonnets for Weddings
Celebrate your love story with the elegance and beauty of sonnet poetry at your wedding! 📜 Let the timeless words of Shakespearean sonnets add a touch of romance and sophistication to your special day. 💍 Make your wedding unforgettable with the power of poetic expression - because your love deserves to be immortalized in verse!
Poems
On the wedding
The Bishop co-ordinating
Called in the groom
Only awaiting the bride
Hymns going up in the air
Half hour passed
And yet she is unarrived
"What is delaying you?"
The groom yelled at the Bishop
"Your bride isn't here"
With a dimple from the groom's cheek
Loke side way at his bride
"He has long arrived
I am gay"
dated May
There is a wedding in old London town
A handsome man and his radiant bride
Ivory silk made up her graceful gown.
A merry throng had gathered in the street
To see the carriage in which they would ride
They cheered to the rhythm of marching feet
The bells are ringing out the happy news
To tell the world a prince now has a wife
With waving flags of red, white and blues
The man who shall be king has found his queen
And together they stand in love and life
As one to face the joys as yet unseen
There is a wedding in old London town
The bells are ringing out the happy news
A vow of lies I should never have said,
Two words I wish I’d saved for me and you;
My wasted innocence on the wedding bed
Defiled the words of love that say ‘I do’.
A distant regret now haunts my mind, you see,
While watching you walking down towards me;
My vision of taffeta, lace and silk
Tainted by a past of the devil’s milk.
I seek your smile beneath the bridal veil,
My comfort before promises are made
And I give my heart as regrets now fade.
Later when I sip from your holy grail
And yield to the power of loving spells
I recall the joy of our wedding bells.
near ritual fire with holy chants,
dressed I sat in my stylish western suit,
day heat reading celsius forty two!
unbearable were tailored woollen pants,
my pouring sweat looked for an exit route,
where to?
if you wed in India, wear light dress,
you sweat less and look colourful and cute,
in your new suit you feel like a hot stew!
in summer heat I fainted in a mess,
no clue!
1st placement
The Speaker contest
sponsor Sara Kendrik
Written 25/10/20
11 lines abc abc dbc dc rhyme
with 10,10,10,10,10,2,10,10,10,10,2 syllable count on soup syllable counter
Two doves perchèd upon the throne of God
Fore'er indebted in wedlock'd bond.
True love cannot be measured with a rod.
Like ripples on the Lord's celestial pond.
Bouquet of wild aster both shall pick
In gardens, both share harvest of their love
with children who will compliment them quick
We bless them both with light from Heav'n above
As love has taken hold of man and wife
And may that bond be blessèd with glad cheer
Together they will start their Christian life
And let us not shed ev'n single tear
Love's purity is like the fallen snow
Part not until they tread where angels go.
At a church wedding
All the guest arrive
The pew's are all filled
With the families
Everyone anxious
Waiting- for the bride
Flower girls dresses
Are white an purple
Now the music starts
Bride maid's dressers purple
They walk down the aisle
One bride maid teary eye
her tears are flowing
Losing control she sobs
A few tears are shed
Only she knows why
Everyone knows her
She is known to cry
She is so well known
For her emotions
She has a nick name
It Is The Emotional Bride's Maid
Words in a vow for bride and groom,
Embark with zest a journey quest;
Dance here and now that happy bloom,
Deep lovely fest to live your best;
In-sync with feel of mind and heart,
Notes that attest a song of grace;
Glimpse and reveal a couple's start.
Blessings to vest you face to face,
Abide love true in all seasons;
Niche faith and hope in warm embrace,
Quiz love's bright hues beyond reason;
Urge sculpts bold scope to meet life's pace,
Ebb and flow here in lovely chimes,
Touch love that steers warm space and time.
Leon Enriquez
28 June 2015
Singapore
You were never a choice,
You were never an option,
You were the only one,
The only receiver of the token.
Your dulcet voice,
opens doors to various imaginations.
Your deep-set eyes,
place where lies my nation.
Your alluring magnanimious face,
admired for infinite duration.
The words can't embrace,
your appealing expression.
Deep red intoxicating wine encased,
The Day of our declaration.
If ever I am old, and all alone,
I shall have killed one grief, at any rate;
For then, thank God, I shall not have to wait
Much longer for the sheaves that I have sown.
The devil only knows what I have done,
But here I am, and here are six or eight
Good friends, who most ingenuously prate
About my songs to such and such a one.
But everything is all askew to-night,—
As if the time were come, or almost come,
For their untenanted mirage of me
To lose itself and crumble out of sight,
Like a tall ship that floats above the foam
A little while, and then breaks utterly.
Author: Edwin Arlington Robinson
Please wait for me until I can be, right there by your side.
Our life begins, our new life awaits,
When we step through those chapel gates.
To take the vow to marry thee,
When I get down on bended knee.
I pledge my love,I would give my life,
The moment you said you would be my wife.
Tomorrow when our new life begins,
And we exchange are wedding rings.
After family and friends are gone,
And we are left here all alone.
I will take you home so we can be
Man and wife, for the rest of our life,
For all eternity!
a kyrielle sonnet
Our lighthouse casts its light to guide;
a role it plays in fam'ly pride.
Through many times of gath'ring near,
a record traces ev'ry year.
In wedding dress up Trundle's stairs,
our lens first caught it unawares.
Our fam'ly's seen through photos here,
a record traces ev'ry year.
The cam'ra toiled as fam'ly grew
preserving mem'ries we pursue.
Our albums shine like chandeliers,
a record traces ev'ry year.
Our lighthouse casts its light to guide
a record traces ev'ry year.
Overview
A sonnet brings a compact, carefully shaped form to wedding poetry. Traditionally, it has fourteen lines, often arranged around a pattern of rhyme and rhythm, but contemporary sonnets may loosen those rules while keeping the poem’s sense of balance and turn. This makes the form well suited to vows, ceremony readings, keepsake gifts, or a private note exchanged before the celebration.
Wedding sonnets can hold both tenderness and thought. Rather than simply praising love, a strong sonnet may explore what commitment asks of two people, recall a small shared moment, or look toward the life still to come. The form’s limited space encourages precise images and memorable language. Writers can choose an English-style structure with three quatrains and a closing couplet, an Italian-style octave and sestet, or a flexible fourteen-line design. What matters most is that the poem sounds sincere when spoken and reflects the couple’s distinct relationship.
Meaning and Symbolism
The sonnet can symbolize devotion shaped by attention: feeling is not diminished by form, but given a place to gather and deepen. Its fourteen-line frame suggests wholeness without pretending that love is simple. A sonnet’s turn, or volta, can also mirror a meaningful shift—from individual life to partnership, from memory to promise, or from uncertainty to trust.
Rhyme and repeated rhythm may evoke steadiness, making the form a fitting expression of commitment. Yet a wedding sonnet need not present marriage as perfect or fixed. Its symbolism can lie in the meeting of freedom and structure: two voices remain distinct while creating a shared pattern. A final couplet or closing thought can offer resolution, blessing, or an open-hearted glimpse of what comes next.
Wedding Poem Writing Ideas
Use the sonnet’s small space to focus on one clear emotional journey rather than trying to tell the couple’s entire story.
- Begin with a specific moment: Describe a familiar gesture, place, sound, or object that carries meaning for the couple.
- Plan the turn: Shift near the middle or toward the end from memory to promise, question to answer, or separate paths to a shared future.
- Choose a manageable pattern: Try three quatrains and a couplet, an octave and sestet, or simply fourteen unrhymed lines.
- Write for the ear: Read each draft aloud and favor natural phrasing over forced rhyme or overly formal language.
- Let the ending deepen the poem: Use the final lines to reveal a fresh understanding, make a promise, or leave the couple with a vivid image.
Sample Wedding Poem Lines
Morning gathers softly at the edge of your shared name.
I knew your kindness first in ordinary hours.
Two separate roads now learn a single weather.
Let every year add music to the promise made today.
Our future opens quietly, like a door toward light.
Related Wedding Words
volta, quatrain, couplet, octave, sestet, meter, rhyme, vow, devotion, union