Wedding Readings from Science & the Cosmos

If love is chemistry, marriage must be quantum entanglement.

These readings are for couples who see beauty in equations, wonder in the stars, and poetry in the precision of science.

Each passage captures love not as magic, but as an extraordinary natural phenomenon, the same force that holds atoms, galaxies, and people together.

Whether you’re inspired by Einstein’s relativity, Sagan’s star stuff, or the poetry of transformation, these readings celebrate love as the most elegant law of the universe.

1. Relativity — Albert Einstein

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute.
That’s relativity.

2. Reading Inspired by Carl Sagan

“The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding...
...The sum of all our evolution, our thinking and our accomplishments is love.
A marriage makes two fractional lives a whole. It gives to two questioning natures a renewed reason for living.
It brings a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.”

3. Summer and Austin Have Left Their Apartment for a House — Romie Stott

(Poetic excerpt — leave full text as in your version)

I meant to write that you were aligned together in the same quantum state,
and could not be contained.
...It was a long time building, only seeming the same, like boiling water,
as you transformed into something that rises.

4. Quote — Neil deGrasse Tyson

“We are all connected;
To each other, biologically.
To the earth, chemically.
To the rest of the universe atomically.”

5. Love in Science — compiled from Tyson, Einstein, and Sagan

“Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is a tiny blue dot that we humans call home...
We are made of star stuff. We are the mechanism by which the universe can comprehend itself...
The sum of all our evolution, our thinking, and our accomplishments is love.
That’s relativity.

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I’d love to help you design a ceremony that’s equally cosmic and heartfelt.