BTW, that is paraphrased.  The entire quote is:

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then--whether you were man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether you ranked with royalty and wore a glittering crown or in humble obscurity bore the toil and heat of the day, whether your name will be remembered as long as the world stands and consequently as long as it stood or you are nameless and run nameless in the innumerable multitude, whether the magnificence encompassing you surpassed all human description or the most severe and ignominious human judgment befell you--eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not, whether you have despaired in such a way that you did not realize that you were in despair, or in such a way that you covertly carried this sickness inside of you as your gnawing secret, as a fruit of sinful love under your heart, or in such a way that you, a terror to others, raged in despair. And if so, if you have lived in despair, then, regardless of whatever else you won or lost, everything is lost for you, eternity does not acknowledge you, it never knew you--or, still more terrible, it knows you as you are known and it binds you to yourself in despair.

Kev, I normally like most of your stuff, but I've gotta go with Eno on this one.  As beautiful of a quote as that is, I'm not sure it's really wedding oriented.  It seems kinda like the end of something, ya know?

Visually, it's awesome.  Just not sure about that quote.

Ok, I've got to get a new quote.  But I don't want anything wedding-oriented or all smarmy.  I just need something NICE. 

No hurry.  I have until Christmas...    Just mothing too Weddingish please. 

I've always been fond of Shakespeare's Sonnets..particularly Sonnet 18:

Quote:

Crap, you recognized it, eh?  lol j/k


Yes, that is a line from R&J, however the emotion behind it is the most touching and passionate you'll find...


I'll continue my search.  lol

I think I have it.  Thanks to Romulus for the inspiration.    What do you guys think now?

That's much better.

I think Eno is right about the tombstone but what do I know? You should know more than anyone what would appeal your brother & his wife.

PS. I just spotted the 2nd one with the candles. That's a very touching quote but it seems a tad morbid again. I'm not sure it suits the occasion.