Choosing a reading for your wedding can be one of the most challenging tasks on your to-do list. How do you find a passage that totally encompasses your love" (And how do you make sure that it’s not something 1,000 other couples have used") To help with this monumentally romantic task, we’ve pulled together seven of our favorite passages about love. Some of these are from writers you’d expect to see on the list, such as Shakespeare, but some might surprise you or your guests. All of them are supremely romantic, so maybe grab a tissue or two before you read through.

1. Maya Angelou, Touched By an Angel

We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.
Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.
We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love’s light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.

2. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
3. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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