So many couples look for ceremony readings from books or films and this one kind of covers both! It's an excerpt from Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and it makes the loveliest wedding reading. Before Eat, Pray, Love was the film known best for Julia Roberts eating her weight in pizza, it was a book hailed for embracing independence, and loving yourself before you find love. Fitting messages for kicking off married life, don't you think? This might be an alternative wedding reading for many, but if that's what you're looking for, it could be the one!

An Excerpt from Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”

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