Here are some lyrics, poems and prayers you might like to use for your special day – wedding or civil union, rainbow or straight couple. You’re welcome to use them in whole or in part, and to adapt them with acknowledgement.

Faith of Metaphor and Mystery – song lyrics
Adapted for the wedding of a Kiwi and a Korean, emphasizing the bringing together of different cultures and families
Love that weaves two lives together Sense and senses, heart and head Spanning distance, honouring difference Patterns drawn with rainbow thread…

Be With Me – A wedding day prayer
Be air of spirit, body in spaces between cells / breathe in me—dry hot tears and fill cool clefts with laughter 

Rainbow Trinity prayer
Acknowledging the god-ness of all people
Creative spirit, Goddess and Gaia, we see ourselves in the god-ness of others, and ourselves in their image of you. Christ who manifests in rainbow ways, as ancient wisdom and holy fool, as genderqueer, cis and bi, ungendered, straight: diverse and beautiful; as rabbi, story-spinner, joker and sage…

Wedding Wish – a poem
A wish for friends’ happiness
The bluebird is a fragile creature… More than happiness, more than love I wish you

Love is the difficult decision – a poem about everyday love
…Love means never having to say you’re sorry. Love means saying you’re sorry anyway. Love sometimes means acting like you’re sorry until you are—and then saying it… 

Prayer of Celebration and Thanksgiving
Creative Spirit, May the promises they make in public, the loving they share in private,
the concern and care they pledge to one another spill out into the world around them…

Blessing and dismissal
Go in peace. Know that you are loved—and in that knowing, envision a bright future, work for justice: love as you are loved.