If you’re looking for a lighter wedding reading that will make your guests smile, The Giraffe and the Monkey by Daniel Thompson is an ideal wedding poem. This wedding reading is all about how love and laughter are all you really need in life. You don’t need money, or a muscled body, or the best style and fashion sense, just someone who loves you despite all of those things. And when you do find someone who loves you no matter what you look like or how much money you have, that’s when you’ve found a true life partner who you know will stick by your side through thick and thin. If you like this wedding reading, download the PDF of the light-hearted wedding poem! 

The Giraffe and the Monkey

by Daniel Thompson

Wherever we go
Whatever we do
Whenever there’s me
I hope that there’s you.

Now Money is Funny, it can make people odd.
You forget to be happy, and you live for your job
And fashion, is a passion, beset with a flaw
You can dress to excess, but you’ll always need more

And a muscle toned body, may sound like a dream
But no body is better, than chocolate ice cream
What I’m trying to say, is that happiness grows
Not through your wages, or body or clothes

But in laughter and love, and in sharing your life.
In the arms of another as husband and wife.
So when you find someone who’s weird just like you
Who laughs when you’re stupid and who makes you laugh too.

When you sit on the sofa, not hiding your flaws.
As imperfectly perfect, as the hand that holds yours.
When the fortune of kings, or purse of a beggar.
Won’t change how it feels, just being together.

When a cuddle and cuppa is all that you need….

Well then…
you’ve found something quite special indeed.

Wherever we go
Whatever we do
Whenever there’s me
I hope that there’s you.

The Giraffe and the Monkey by Daniel Thompson was included in our roundup of 14 wedding readings about friendship because it highlights the importance of unconditional love, a key component of friendship in our eyes. If you like this wedding reading, you’ll love The Relationship Promise by Luke Wright.