Every week, we love to bring you a new and unique ceremony reading, and this one is inspired by a wedding reading from Princess Eugenie's royal wedding. The bride married her long-time beau, Jack Brooksback at Windsor, and her sister, Beatrice, read an excerpt from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Despite the iconic book being one of the defining novels of the 1920s, it's a modern choice for a royal bride, as the story drenched in excess, adultery and debauchery. But there's no denying it's a great love story too, and this excerpt is a romantic choice, that would work for any wedding!

Excerpt from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favour. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey. Precisely at that point it vanished - and I was looking at an elegant young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd. Some time before he introduced himself I’d got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care."

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