If you're on the look out for Christmas wedding ceremony readings, you're in luck, because it doesn't get much more festive than A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens! While this timeless tale doesn't exactly scream romance, we were quite taken by a section towards the end of the novella, in which Ebenezer Scrooge celebrates being allowed to change his curmudgeonly ways. It's a really joyful extract that will bring a sense of old-world charm to your ceremony, and get the festive feels flowing too!

Ceremony Reading: Extract from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

His hands were busy with his garments all this time; turning them inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties to every kind of extravagance.

“I don’t know what to do!” cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. “I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world. Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!”

...He was checked in his transports by the churches ringing out the lustiest peals he had ever heard. Clash, clang, hammer; ding, dong, bell. Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clang, clash! Oh, glorious, glorious!

Running to the window, he opened it, and put out his head. No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold; cold, piping for the blood to dance to; Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells. Oh, glorious! Glorious!

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