* * * Read by Maid of Honor Anita Mohan: Love Sonnet IX by Pablo Neruda There where the waves shatter on the restless rocks the clear light bursts and enacts its rose, and the sea-circle shrinks to a cluster of buds, to one drop of blue salt, falling. O bright magnolia bursting in the foam, magnetic transient whose death blooms and vanishes— being, nothingness— forever: broken salt, dazzling lurch of the sea. You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness: because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics, galloping water, incessant sand, we make the only permanent tenderness. * * * Read by Groomsman: Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke * * * Sung by Bridesmaid Jenny Little to piano accompaniment of Steven Lubin: "O mio babbino caro" Music: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Lyrics: Giovacchino Forzano O mio babbino caro, mi piace è bello, bello; vo'andare in Porta Rossa a comperar l'anello! Sì, sì, ci voglio andare! e se l'amassi indarno, andrei sul Ponte Vecchio, ma per buttarmi in Arno! Mi struggo e mi tormento! O Dio, vorrei morir! Babbo, pietà, pietà! Babbo, pietà, pietà! * * *