THE WEDDING CEREMONY OF
Alexa Chung
&
Benedict Timothy Cumberbatch
2 May 2015
Bocconoc Parish Church
Lostwithiel, Cornwall
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Performed by Guy Garvey & band
Greeting
Reading
I Carry Your Heart by E.E. Cummings
read by Timothy Carlton
Reading
Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda
read by Jamie Chung
Exchanging of vows and rings
Lighting of the unity candle
Presentation of the bride and groom
Recessional
Cold War Kids - Finally Begin
by E.E. Cummings
read by Timothy Carlton
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
by Pablo Neruda
read by Jamie Chung
I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries
hidden within itself the light of those flowers,
and thanks to your love, darkly in my body
lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving
but this, in which there is no I or you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.
