Wedding poem for gay couple

It was believed that Emily Dickinson was romantically linked to her childhood friend and sister-in-law Susan Gilbert. Dickinson wrote roughly 1, poems in her lifetime, but many were published after her death. Unfortunately, it is speculated that Gilbert was purposefully left out of Dickinson's work by her publisher.

Inspiration

Reading work by these queer writers felt like a way of incorporating these other families into the ceremony -- the family of writers and their work, and the family we've created around it. I emailed Kristen Nelson who I'd not previously met beforehand to ask if she was comfortable having her poem read in the context of a wedding ceremony, and she was thrilled, as an officiate herself.

11 Vow Quotes and Ceremony Readings for LGBTQ+ Weddings

The Readings for Our Lesbian Wedding

As a woman in a lesbian relationship , there are plenty of ways you can reference your relationship and your orientation in your wedding vow quotes and ceremony readings, as subtlety or as boldly as you want to. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove O no!