Wedding Reading from Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms'

We have loved researching wedding readings for this series, so we’re thrilled to be continuing it in this new year! We’ve said so many times before how much we love the modern approach to wedding readings. The fact that you can borrow someone else’s words for a few moments to express how you feel, and that the limitation on possible readings has almost completely gone, is so refreshing.

We’ve found another beautiful extract that would work perfectly as a wedding reading. Subtle and romantic this is quite possibly our most favourite in the series so far…

This extract comes from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

“At night, there was the feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away; all other things were unreal. We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone. Often a man wishes to be alone and a woman wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. We were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.”

V&C x