Irish Wedding Poetry

Invocations to the Elements

May the gentle breeze bear witness to this ritual and carry its message to all lands
May the sun, warm their hearts, and its ever-burning fire fuel their desire for each other.
May the sea provide for them from its bounty, and comfort their souls with her sounds.
May the earth lend its strength, and reveal its mysteries.

Come and Be One

Come and Be One
Come And Be One
Become One, Be One
Be

Love for Love

God above increase our love.
Let love and friendship reign.
I long to be made one with thee.

Time shall tell I love thee well.
God’s blessing on thee and me.
Love for love.

Welsh Love Poem

In was sweet, sweetheart, a while
Beneath the birchgrove's shade to live.
To cuddle up was even sweeter,
In the wood's retreat close hidden,
Wandering hand in hand along the sea shore
Lingering hand in hand along the wood shore...
Lying beside each other in the grove,
Mutually shunning folk, complicit in complaint,
Living together with kindness, quaffing mead,
Resting in each other's love, one heart,
Keeping tryst with love's secret.

by the Welsh love-poet Dafydd ap Gwylym (1320-70)

Blessing of a Lover (from Gaelic Scotland)

You are the star of each night,
You are the brightness of every morning
You are the story of each guest
You are the report of every land

No evil shall befall you
on hill nor bank,
In field or valley
On mountain or in glen

Neither above nor below
Neither in sea nor on shore
In skies above
Nor in the depths

You are the kernel of my heart
You are the fact of my sun
You are the harp of my music
You are the crown of my company.

The Invocation of the Graces

I bathe thy palms
In showers of wine,
In the lustral fire,
In the seven elements,
In the juice of the rasps,
In the milk of honey,
And I place the nine pure choice graces
In thy fond face,
The grace of form,
The grace of voice,
The grace of fortune,
The grace of goodness,
The grace of wisdom
The grace of charity,
The grace of choice maidenliness,
The grace of whole-souled loveliness,
The grace of goodly speech.

Thou are the joy of all joyous things
Thou art the light of the beam of the sun
Thou art the door of the chief of hospitality
Thou art the surpassing star of guidance
Thou art the step of the deer of the hill
Thou art the step of the steed on the plain
Thou art the grace of the swan of swimming
Thou art the loveliness of all lovely desires.

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