Sonnet CX VI by William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. Or bends with the remover to remove O no! it is an ever fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken It is the star to every wand’ring bark Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks But bears it out even to the edge of doomv If this be error and upon me proved I never writ, nor no man ever loved. This reading is suitable for a civil ceremony. Return to Weddings - Readings index page.