I am often asked if I know of a good poem to be read at a wedding, and here’s one by James Bertolino, from his new and selected poems, “Ravenous Bliss.” Bertolino lives in Washington state and I have ...

They must of course reflect your own feelings about each other and your own experience as a couple, but the best wedding poetry also expresses a more universal understanding of the importance of love ...

You’ve heard of the jilted bride. Now consider the instantly abandoned husband. In Federico García Lorca’s “Blood Wedding,” the wife runs off with her former lover minutes after the ceremony that ...

Now that I'm in my 20s, not a year goes by without a flood of wedding invitations, and with each ceremony I attend comes new ideas for my own special day. I've already decided that my dress will be ...

As I was searching for poems on the Internet and my bookshelf, I sadly realized that most poems about marriage are either a) depressing, or b) super-, super-corny. Poems are often written as ways to ...

"The wedding day came, and the shining water," goes one of the characteristically succinct and pungent lines in Federico Garcia Lorca's mournful "Blood Wedding." Garcia Lorca based this 1933 play on a ...

As women make their mark in every field, Sangeeta Kampani’s new book of poems, My Daughter’s Wedding, offers us a peep into the lives of Indian women: some shrugging off sexism, some slaving away in ...

Poor Chelsea Clinton, at last escaping from her parents to the happy hunting ground of marriage, only to have her choice of wedding poem mocked. There's nothing wrong with The Life that I have. It is ...