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Getting married is, of course, a huge responsibility of the \u201creal\u201d world, but deep inside everyone...","datePublished":"2012-09-12","dateModified":"2021-07-08","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/author\/admin\/#Person","name":"Equally Wed","url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/author\/admin\/","identifier":787,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ca62cf123aaaf135c80b055249bacbda79de9226e11cdfcde6529bedf89683de?s=96&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ca62cf123aaaf135c80b055249bacbda79de9226e11cdfcde6529bedf89683de?s=96&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Equally Wed","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"http:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/equally-wed-lgbtq-weddings-logo.jpg","url":"http:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/equally-wed-lgbtq-weddings-logo.jpg","width":218,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gay-wedding-planning-childrens-literature-winnie-the-pooh.jpg","url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gay-wedding-planning-childrens-literature-winnie-the-pooh.jpg","height":454,"width":496},"url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/5-pieces-of-childrens-literature-to-quote-in-your-wedding\/","about":["Planning"],"wordCount":765,"articleBody":" By Alyssandra BarnesDoes anyone ever really grow up? Getting married is, of course, a huge responsibility of the \u201creal\u201d world, but deep inside everyone is still a kid at heart, no matter what happens in life. To honor that inner child, many couples have chosen to include excerpts from beloved children\u2019s books in the ceremony and reception. Lauren and Lauren, featured in our Real Gay Weddings, included a reading from The Velveteen Rabbit. Nick and Paul, also from our Real Gay Weddings, also included an excerpt from The Velveteen Rabbit along with a passage from The Dance by: Oriah Mountain Dreamer.Children\u2019s authors just have a way of explaining love and friendship so simply and beautifully. Here are our top five children\u2019s fiction quotes to include in your wedding.\u00a0Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne  It\u2019s a classic series of stories that evokes deep emotions of an eternal bond. You can\u2019t blame us for selecting two quotes instead of one.\u201cIf you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.\u201d\u201cI think we dream so that we don\u2019t have to be apart for so long. If we\u2019re in each other\u2019s dreams, we can be together all the time.\u201d\u00a0The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettBurnett was never one for short sentences like those in Pooh, but this passage describes perfectly an endless love.\u201cOne of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one\u2019s head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one\u2019s heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun\u2014which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so. And one knows it sometimes when one stands by oneself in a wood at sunset and the mysterious deep gold stillness slanting though and under the branches seems to be saying slowly again and again something one cannot quite hear, however much one tries. The sometimes the immense quiet of the dark blue at night with millions of stars waiting and watching makes one sure; and sometimes a sound of far-off music makes it true; and sometimes a look in someone\u2019s eye.\u201d\u00a0Anne of Avonlea by LM Montgomery   This is the second of the nine book series of Anne of Green Gables. The talkative and opinionated Anne has a flare for the dramatic and poetic, but this is perfect for the understated couple.\u201cPerhaps, after all, romance did not come into one\u2019s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one\u2019s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music; perhaps\u2026 perhaps\u2026 love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank BaumAh, the romance of marriage. Once you tie the knot with you hubby, you\u2019ll (literally) never have to look far to find comfort, love or hope.\u201cIt I ever go looking for my heart\u2019s desire again, I won\u2019t look any farther than my own backyard. Because if it isn\u2019t there, I never really lost it to begin with.\u201d\u00a0The Search by Shel SilversteinThis poem is a bit odd, like most Shel Silverstein works are, but it has a wonderful message. What you have wanted and searched for so long (the love of your life) is now yours. What fun things will you be searching for next?\u201cI went to find the pot of goldThat\u2019s waiting where the rainbow ends.I searched and searched and searched and searchedand searched and searched and then-There it was, deep in the grass,under an old and twisty bough.It\u2019s mine, it\u2019s mine, it\u2019s mine at last\u2026What do I search for now?\u201dPhoto: winniethepoohpictures.blogspot.com; desertgirlsvintage.blogspot.com; alephbet.com; Graphic Tales; thesecularparent.com"},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"5 Pieces of Children\u2019s Literature to Quote in Your Wedding","item":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/5-pieces-of-childrens-literature-to-quote-in-your-wedding\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]