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 24 hours.
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 on the trail. She had the map.
She let him find his way to her anyway.
That's the whole story in miniature —
two people who learned how to be found by each other.
Love, when it works, is mostly this:
not the arrival but the navigation,
the willingness to look up from the path and say
I don't know exactly where I am,
but I know where I want to be.
Today you choose the same direction.
May you always know how to find your way home.
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 for the right one
with the patience I privately doubted
and publicly defended.
I watched him take his time —
longer than necessary, everyone agreed —
and eventually arrive at the conclusion
the rest of us had reached two Christmases ago.
I have known you since the beginning.
I have watched you become this person —
the one who stands here today, ready, certain.
It suits you completely.
I'm so glad he finally figured it out.
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 of watching you become yourself —
we know this person. We've always known her.
The particular stubbornness. The particular warmth.
The way you love things all the way through.
Whoever he is, he gets to learn
what we've always known.
That is the whole gift, in our view.
We are happy to share it.
Go make a life that fits you.
It will. You always find a way.
Call us Sunday. Bring leftovers.
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 exactly
what annoys the other one,
and choosing to stay
for the particular pleasure of it.
He asked during an argument about dinner.
She said yes before he finished the question.
This is, it turns out, all the proof you need
that someone is the right person —
that yes comes faster than the question.
May it always be this easy to choose each other,
and this worth it to keep choosing.
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 learned what love costs.
You know the weight of a wrong fit,
the particular silence of a house
that holds two people going different directions.
You chose again anyway —
not despite knowing, but because of it.
That's not hope. That's something better:
the clear-eyed decision of two people
who know exactly what they're agreeing to.
Here's to the beginning that comes after enough.
Here's to the brave and uncommon thing:
starting again, knowing what it's worth.
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. A Custom poem (three stanzas, fully bespoke) normally costs $45. The Signature tier, written personally by Luc Bonnell with a 24-hour turnaround, normally costs $85. Both are available at no charge while the platform opens.
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