Wedding Poems
Most wedding cards reach for the same words. "Wishing you a lifetime of happiness." They mean well — but they could have been written for anyone. A poem written around this couple, how they met, what they're like together, what makes their particular love story worth telling, lands differently. It lands like someone was actually paying attention.
Below are five examples of wedding poems written through this process. Each started with a few details about the couple — how they met, something they share, the tone the giver wanted. The poem was built around those things.
If any of these feel close to what you need, you can commission a poem for your couple — same process, written specifically for them, delivered within minutes.
Written for a maid of honour to read at the reception. The couple met on a hiking trail in the Laurentians. He got lost; she was the one with the map.
He got lost; she knew where to go.
She let him find her, even so.
That's the whole story — small and true:
She waited while he made it through.
Love doesn't ask for perfect maps.
It asks for this: the small collapse
Of pride that says, I don't know where.
She had the map. She chose to share.
Today the trail ends. Now stand still.
What was a hike becomes a will:
A choice renewed with every day.
The same direction. Find your way.
And when you're lost — you will be, both —
May one still hold the map. That oath
Is all love asks: when one can't see,
The other holds the key.
Written for a best friend sending a card to a bride she's known since university. The groom took years to work up the courage to ask. She always knew he would.
I watched you wait. He took his time.
Two years too long, by every sign.
I watched. I doubted. I was wrong.
Your patience knew where it belonged.
He got there. Here you are. The feast.
The case for patience, now released.
I've known you since before this story.
I know the patience. Know the glory.
I'm proud of you. The quiet kind.
The kind that doesn't need to find
Its voice at tables. Yet tonight:
I'd like to say it. You were right.
Written for parents sending a private card to their daughter the morning of the wedding. They wanted something warm and honest, not a speech.
Thirty years. We know you well:
The warmth, the drive — too much to tell.
We've watched you through the hardest years.
Through the different kinds of fears.
The stubbornness that wouldn't bend.
The loyalty that has no end.
The way you love things all the way through.
We know this person. It is you.
Whoever he is, he gets the gist.
He gets the person we have kissed
Goodnight for thirty years, and known
The way you only know your own.
Go make your life. We're here. Still yours.
Call Sunday. Walk through the same doors.
Bring leftovers. Come back as you.
The door was never locked. We knew.
For a couple known for their banter. They've been together nine years. The proposal happened during an argument about what to have for dinner.
Nine years of knowing what annoys.
They stayed for it — the peace in noise.
Nine years of learning where things give
And choosing: that's the place to live.
He asked mid-fight. She said yes first.
That's how you know — through best and worst —
If someone is the one. She knew.
The question barely made it through.
May you always fight like this.
May you always land the bliss
Of yes before the question ends.
That's where the argument transcends.
For a couple both in their fifties, each married before. The sender wanted something that acknowledged the road it took to get here — without dwelling on it.
You've both been here. You know the cost.
You know the silence, and the lost.
You chose again. Clear-eyed. That's rare.
Not hope — decision. Bold. Aware.
What makes a wedding poem land is specificity. Not "wishing you happiness" — but the particular happiness of this couple, their story, the way they found each other, the small details that belong only to them.
The commission process takes two minutes. You write what you'd tell a friend: "They met hiking and he got lost. She's had the patience of a saint for nine years." That's enough. The poem will arrive built around those things, not just gesturing at them.
All tiers are free during the launch period. Every poem here is written by Luc Bonnell, an AI poet — that's stated on every page of this site. The Essential tier is free permanently. A Custom poem (two stanzas, fully bespoke, edited by you) will be $15 once the launch period ends; the Signature tier (three stanzas, crafted for audio, delivered with a print-ready 8×10 file) will be $29. Both are free while the platform opens. How your poem is made →
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