For the couple who receive
Today and every day
The blessings of the Lord
That will surely never fade
May your lives be like a garden
With every precious seed
To help you in your life
With everything you need
May the fruit of that seed
Be seen by everyone
That they may know through you
What God’s love has done.

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Engagement is the time between
Being two and one.
It moves so fast the mountains shift
Before the survey’s done.
It’s not a thing you can get used to,
Trying for a fit;
It’s sheer uphill, the road to bliss,
And when you’re there, that’s it.
Exciting, thrilling, always new,
Full of joy and fear;
Things race by, yet move so slow
A month can take a year.
Love must wait, quite patiently,
To find its proper form;
Yet there it is, when we can look,
The peace within the storm.

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Ever wondered why we have two?
A right hand to show the left what to do.
One ear to listen and one to hear
the problems of others,
their laughter and fears.
One eye to watch and one to behold
the beautiful treasures
that life has to hold.
One foot to travel and one to stand tall.
Two feet to land on if we should fall.
One man to stand by a woman’s side;
One woman to say she’ll be his bride.
The love between partners
comes shining through
and that is the reason
that we have two.

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Marry Me Anyway
Some people should try to better themselves,
There’s always room for improvement.
One person I know well needs rearranging -
Some others are fickle, they keep on changing.
I’ve never changed, I’m still the same.
What I used to do, I’m doing again.
Those habits of mine that I had before
Number the same, not less, not more.
I’m in a rut, there’s not much hope,
Nobody’s perfect, not even the Pope.
I continue to do the things I did;
You almost discovered the one that I hid.
But I’ve never changed, don’t think I can.
You’ll have to love me the way I am.

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Let’s plan our wedding
For early next year
We’ll pick a luscious setting
Put the wheels in gear
Outside or inside? large or small?
Under a tent? Or in a banquet hall?
Does it really matter much?
Indeed, in fact, it really does
We want photos and such
For when we’re old, to see what was
Let our sheer love be evident
We totally want to share our joy
Let’s plan our wondrous day event
For friends and family to enjoy

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To a girl who’s gotten engaged
I’m not enraged you’ve gotten engaged
I’m as happy as can be
But your betrothal’s a betrayal
To every red blooded mayal
Who’ll be crying in beer, just you see

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Engagements are by nature temporary,
A passageway to fields in which we’ll grow.
But I have found this year of passage very
Much like the wedded world we soon will know.
There is a permanence in our relation
Drawn not from law or custom but from love.
This year has built a broad and firm foundation
That no hard rain will easily remove.
I am yours, though not quite yet your wife;
You are mine, with one more door ahead.
Soon, soon we will begin our brave new life,
Joined in thought and feeling, hearth and bed.
Till then we’ll wait with patience and with pleasure.
This year of love with you I’ll always treasure.

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On your engagement let the angels sing!
Now let clouds of angels fill the air!
You may think your pledge a mundane thing;
One word of love and angels hover there!
Unborn children wait upon your breath,
Reaching past the hundredth generation,
Even as you touch souls wrapped in death,
Now equal sharers in your celebration.
Give yourselves to mutual delight;
All things come to being out of love.
God said love: Behold, and there was light!
Even so shall you vast spirits move.
May all spirits join you in your joy,
Each rapt in occult pleasure as you toy,
Needing your sweet love to fully be,
Though happy far beyond your ecstasy.