8 Underrated Pop Culture Wedding Ceremony Readings

The wedding world is full of moving ceremony readings to include in your own wedding ceremony. You’ve likely searched for something that fits your personalities and come across a lot of classics. Since you found your way here, we wanted to shine a light on some of our favorite pop culture monologues that would make incredible wedding ceremony readings.

1. This Is Us, Randall Pearson

“Accept the fact that there’s zero point in trying to control the future because nobody knows where we’ll be. Not even a year from now. But what we can control are the people we choose. Choosing our people are the closest we come to controlling our destiny. Because while everything else may change, if you choose right your people will stay the same. Whether that’s tonight or a year from now or ten years from now - when I look at you I know in my bones that in choosing each other, you have chosen perfectly.”

2. This Is Us, Randall Pearson

“I’ve been thinking a lot today about time. Like how when you’re young … a year is like a fifth of your existence. And so maybe when you’re younger, time seems to move a little bit slower. Summer vacation is a lifetime. But the older we get, the faster time just seems to come at us. All of us. You know, the years just keep flying by, faster and faster. It can give a guy whiplash just thinking about it. And while I would love nothing more than to stay in this moment as long as humanly possible, to celebrate our favorite newlyweds, sadly I have yet to build a remote that pauses life. DAMN. That doesn’t mean there aren’t still summer vacations to be enjoyed. Still good conversations to be had. And still love to be shared. 

It just all happens much faster. In moments like this, when you’re around all your favorite people, celebrating a really special day, time does slow down ever so much. So I’m grateful to Kate and Philip for that! And I’m filled with comfort as I look around this room, knowing that all of you will be on this speeding train with me, slowing down for the occasional special stop. All the way till the very end. So, um, cheers!”

3. The Fosters, Lena Adams

“Love isn’t perfect. It isn’t a fairytale or a storybook and it doesn’t always come easy. Love is overcoming obstacles and facing challenges. Love is fighting to be together. Holding on and never letting go. It is a short word, easy to spell, difficult to define and impossible to live without. Love is work but most of all, love is realizing that every hour, every minute, every second of it was worth it - because you did it together.”

4. Schitts Creek, Moira Rose

“We are gathered here today to celebrate the love between two people whose lives were ostensibly brought together by the fated flap of a butterfly wing. It is all but impossible to explain why things happen the way they do. Our lives are like little baby crows carried upon a curious wind and all we can wish for our families, for those we love is that that wind will eventually place us on solid ground and I believe it’s done just that for my family here in this little town in the middle of nowhere.”

5. Madam Secretary, Henry McCord

“This is what I know about marriage and life - you win summa, you lose summa. But the true test of character is how you celebrate the victories and endure the losses. Believe me when I tell you, both are better when shared with someone that you love. . . This is your first day as ‘wife and husband’. Begin this journey with caring and patience and love and laughter and passionate curiosity. Be each other’s teachers. And know that you are surrounded by people in this room who love you, who will teach you”

6. Sensate, River Asal-dowanee

“It is in this unfamiliar realm, we find possibility. A wedding is a celebration which can also be understood as a union of two families. In this case, this union takes on an even deeper significance. For me, this wedding is proof that for all the differences between us and all the forces that try to divide us. They will never exceed the power of love to unite us.”

7. Brooklyn 99, Captain Holt

“Marriage is a contract

but it’s much more than that.

Marriage is love, it’s commitment, it’s joy, it’s understanding,

it’s patience, it’s anger, it’s reconciliation, it’s everything.

It’s like oatmeal. It sustains you.”

8. One Tree Hill, Lucas Scott

“Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always. A promise. Like a reward for persisting through life so long alone. A belief in each other and the possibility of love. A decision to ignore, simply rise above the pain of the past. A covenant, which at once binds two souls and yet severs prior ties. A celebration of the chance taken and the challenge that lies ahead. For two will always be stronger than one, like a team braced against the tempest civil world. And love will always be the guiding force in our lives. For tonight is a mere formality. Only an announcement to the world of feelings long held. Promises made long ago. In the sacred spaces of our hearts.”