A Journey down the Aisle

By Jennifer Heapes

Your wedding day is one of the most exciting days of your life.

You’ve decided on a date.

You’ve bought the dress.

You’ve found a perfect colour scheme.

But what about the all-important reading?

If you’re struggling in your search and none of the readings you find seem &lsquo

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rowanvale Books Ltd
• Release date: Sep 30, 2016
• ISBN: 9781910832097

Jennifer Heapes

Jennifer Heapes has always had a passion for writing and enjoys reading many different book genres. Harbouring a soft spot for romance, Jennifer particularly enjoys writing love poems. She married her husband in 2014 and, after online searches failed to produce the perfect wedding reading for the ceremony, she decided to write one herself. Hence, the idea for A Journey down the Aisle: A Wedding Poetry Collection was born. Jennifer hopes this book will make the task of finding a perfect wedding poem less daunting for future brides and grooms. She now lives with her husband in the South East of England. She is currently working on her next project, and hopes that this poetry collection will become the first of many.

Book preview

To my wonderful mother and brother.

To my father, who will always be in my heart.

To my husband, who continues to inspire me every day, and who has always believed in me.

To fall in love

And share your life,

To grow old together,

That’s the ultimate dream…

Introduction

Your wedding day is fast approaching. That dream you’ve always had of that perfect day is finally around the corner. You have already begun planning every detail, and you know exactly how you would like every second of your special day to pan out. Maybe you have been planning this wedding for a few months, or maybe years — or perhaps, like me, you have been planning this wedding longer than you have been with your partner.

Before you immerse yourself in this collection, I would like to tell you a little story. A story about how I started writing poems about love, and about one of the most important days of your life. The story starts many years before my own wedding day…

To say I have been writing poems and stories since I was a little girl would not be entirely accurate. I was born with the imagination for storytelling, but not the confidence to write any of it down. As a child, all my stories where written only in my head as I was afraid of what someone might think of them. What if they didn’t like them? As a result of this, I never really shined during my English classes in primary school.

However, in secondary school I met a teacher who was able to recognise that there were stories inside of me, and this is where my love of poetry began. I wrote stories and poems down on paper, and kept them tucked away in a locked box with a key that was hidden separately. As a teenager I discovered that writing poems was a great way to process feelings and situations. The only stories and poems that made it to the public eye were the ones that were handed in as homework. My teacher nurtured my