Feel free to choose your favourite or use one of your own. If you're feeling adventurous use some artistic licence and modify an existing poem or verse. (See the example to the right).

Many people use a phrase from a verse or part of a poem incorporated into the wedding ceremony itself. This way your wedding candle will have a special significance to your day.

Longer poems can be included on the reverse side of the candle.

Here are just a few verses which have become popular over the years.

This Day I Marry My Friend - Author unknown

Together, Always & Forever - Author Unknown

From this day forward,
You shall not walk alone.
My heart will be your shelter,
And my arms will be your home.

From This Day Forward - Author unknown

Because to the depths of me, I long to love one person.
With all my heart, my soul, my mind, my body...

Why Marriage? - Author unknown

True love is a sacred flame,
That burns eternally.
And none can dim its special glow,
Or change its destiny.

True Love - Author Unknown

Our family is a circle of love and strength.
With every birth and every union, the circle grows.
Every joy shared adds more love.
Every obstacle faced together makes the circle stronger.

Our Family - Author unknown

I'll paint a sun to warm your heart,
Knowing that we'll never part.
I'll draw the years all passing by,
So much to learn, so much to try.

The Colour of My Love - David Foster and Arthur Janov

True love is a sacred flame,
That burns eternally.
And none can dim its special glow,
Or change its destiny.
True love speaks in tender tone,
And hears with gentle ear.
True love gives with open hear,
And true love conquers fear.
True love makes no harsh demands,
It neither rules nor binds.
And true love holds with gentle hands,
The hearts that it entwines.

True Love - Author Unknown