My great aunt recently asked me about the personalized wedding poems. She wanted to know, “where do you find all the lovely dovey words?”
That’s a good question.
Writing personalized wedding poems involves inspiration from clients’ answers to the questionnaires, things I’ve seen and heard and even my own experiences.
Teaching poets will often discuss the “emotional truth” of a poem. In order to write something that rings true to more than the folks who experienced something, it is essential to call upon an “emotional truth.” This is the connection that brings humans, with different experiences, together.
Therefore, I can remember an emotion that I’ve felt or seen expressed and then imbue a poem with that emotion through details relating to someone else’s experience. This approach also helps to make the poem more accessible to readers who might not know the couple as deeply. The poem is a vehicle to not only get to know the couple better, but also share something about humanity.
Advice:
When you order a personalized wedding poem, please try to offer as many details as possible. For example, if you were relaying the story about how you first met, the story might be slightly stale because you’ve told it so many times and you’ve started to summarize it, instead of really sharing all of the details (the weather, what s/he was wearing, etc.) Try to remember when it happened and call upon your five senses in order to best describe it. I won’t be able to include all of the details in the poem, but the details that I do include will be most vivid.
I might also be able to find connections between various experiences and weave something more closely related to the couple than I could otherwise. Your physical and emotional details will help me to offer an emotional truth to your readers.
