Some love stories begin with friendship, and there's something so special about falling in love with the person who already knows you best. This beautiful wedding ceremony reading is Love Is Friendship Caught Fire by Laura Hendricks, and it's a particularly lovely choice for couples who were friends before they became something more. This version is adapted slightly to make it more wedding appropriate, but if you're looking for a romantic reading, read this one aloud and I have a feeling it might make you well up!

The words are below and we've created a useful print and go download of this poem below.

Love is Friendship Caught Fire (adapted)

Love is friendship caught fire; it is quiet, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times.

It settles for less than perfection, and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present, hopes for the future, and does not brood over the past.

It is the day-in and day-out chronicles of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories, and working toward common goals.

If you have love in your life, any kind of love, it can make up for a great many things you lack.

If you do not have it, no matter what else there is, it is not enough.

Love is friendship caught fire.

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