Wedding Readings For Grandparents

Miss Manners by Judith Martin
“While exclusionary interest in one other human being, which is what we call courtship, is all
very exciting in the stages of discovery, there is not enough substance in it for a lifetime, no
matter how fascinating the people or passionate the romance. The world, on the other hand,
is chock full of interesting and curious things.
The point of the courtship – marriage – is to secure someone with whom you wish to go
hand in hand through this source of entertainment, each making discoveries, and then
sharing some and merely reporting others. Anyone who tries to compete with the entire
world, demanding to be someone’s sole source of interest and attention, is asking to be
classified as a bore. ‘Why don’t you ever want to talk to me?’ will probably never start a
satisfactory marital conversation. ‘Guess what?’ will probably never fail.”