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Creating an Ambience Through Your Venue

Choosing a wedding venue is important, not least because one’s choice of venue sends a message about the type of wedding experience you and your guests will enjoy. Consider the ambiances created by these different venues – the beach, a manor house in the Winelands or a bush lodge in Mpumalanga. The beach suggests laid-back [...]

A Handy Resource for Wedding Music, Poems and Quotes

Music is an integral part of any celebration, and weddings are no different. But finding the right music for your ceremony can be a headache. Let The Wedding Directory make it easier for you! Go to our Music pages to browse our selection of the finest wedding music. Incorporating poetry into your big day is [...]

How Can I Use Poetry at My Wedding?

For centuries, poems have been used to convey special messages. Poetry is intensely personal, and speaks straight to the heart – your chosen verses should resonate with you and express the sentiments you feel about life and love. Your can use poetry in a variety of ways: As an inspiration for the theme of your [...]

Romantic Poems Part I

Whether you’re looking for the drama of Byron, the sensuality of Shelley, the passion of Keats or the quirky unconventionality of cummings, you’ll find the perfect poem for your wedding right here. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, [...]

Romantic Poems Part II

The Wedding Directory’s collection of romantic poems continued… Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his [...]

Romantic Poems Part III

The Wedding Directory’s collection of romantic poems continued… To My Dear and Loving Husband If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov’d by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me ye women if you can. I prize thy love more then whole Mines [...]

Romantic Poems Part IV

The Wedding Directory’s collection of romantic poems continued… Ghazal You with the dark burly hair and the breathtaking eyes, your inquiring glance that leaves me undone. Eyes that pierce and then withdraw like a blood-stained sword, eyes with dagger lashes! Zealots, you are mistaken – this is heaven. Never mind those making promises of the [...]

Romantic Poems Part V

The Wedding Directory’s collection of romantic poems continued… Love Song: I and Thou Nothing is plumb, level or square: the studs are bowed, the joists are shaky by nature, no piece fits any other piece without a gap or pinch, and bent nails dance all over the surfacing like maggots. By Christ I am no [...]