{"id":17302,"date":"2011-04-18T05:16:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T09:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.5starweddingmagazine.com\/?p=17302"},"modified":"2018-12-24T20:01:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T20:01:03","slug":"romantic-poems-for-your-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/romantic-poems-for-your-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Romantic Poems For Your Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/listing\/wedding-venues-london-marriott-county-hall.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">London Marriott County Hall<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> is celebrating the nation\u2019s mood for <strong>romance, love and marriage<\/strong>, by revealing the winning poems from their recent Marriott Love Poems search.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The best poems have been handpicked by the search\u2019s judges; editor of Poetry Review magazine, Fiona Sampson, and poet Matt Harvey, from the hundreds of poems submitted from all corners of the UK.\u00a0 The winning poems will be published in \u2018Marriott Love Poems \u2013 A Collection Inspired by Love, Weddings and Romance\u2019, a poetry book reflecting modern marriage and weddings.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17305\" style=\"width: 757px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17305\" title=\"Hanbury Manor, A Marriott Hotel &amp; Country Club\" src=\"http:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Hanbury-Manor.jpg\" alt=\"Manor House Wedding Venues Hertfordshire\" width=\"757\" height=\"525\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17305\" title=\"Hanbury Manor, A Marriott Hotel &amp; Country Club\" src=\"http:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Hanbury-Manor.jpg\" alt=\"Manor House Wedding Venues Hertfordshire\" width=\"757\" height=\"525\" \/><\/noscript> Hanbury Manor, A Marriott Hotel &amp; Country Club<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From blushing brides in organisation mode, to frantic fathers-of-the-bride preparing to walk their little girls down the aisle, the search invited everyone inspired by love and weddings to put pen to paper, resulting in a final collection featuring touching, romantic, funny and serious poems, all evoking the myriad emotions around weddings in a unique way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Overwhelmed by the quality of poems received, Fiona Sampson commented, \u201cThe Poems we\u2019ve read have been very well written examples of vernacular in verse.\u00a0 These are poems on a big theme by real, ordinary people.\u00a0 They are not literary works, but part of our nation\u2019s vibrant community culture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Highlights from the winning poems include an ode to The Simpsons\u2019 Homer in \u2018Be My Homer\u2019 by Kent resident CJ Munn;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cBe My Homer,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I want to be your Marge<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If I\u2019m your Norfolk Broads<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Will you be my Barge?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A heartfelt letter to the heart in \u2018Dear Heart\u2019;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I\u2019d like it if you\u2019d tell me<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How you measure love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do you deal in ounces and quarters?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Or stroke it with kid gloves?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And a tearful tale of losing a son to his bride in \u2018My Son\u2019s Bride\u2019<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI\u2019m losing my boy<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And I know that I oughta<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Be jumping with joy<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That I\u2019m gaining a daughter<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But\u2026 \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Full of poetic inspiration for wedding celebrations for many years to come, \u2018Marriott Love Poems\u2019 will be published on 18th April and distributed across the 54 Marriott Hotel &amp; Country Clubs in the UK. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Copyright\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">5 Star Weddings<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Marriott County Hall is celebrating the nation\u2019s mood for romance, love and marriage, by revealing the winning poems from their recent Marriott Love Poems search. 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