Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières

My sister and brother-in-law featured this one in their wedding ceremony last year (Happy Anniversary to them this month BTW!), and (while I'm a crier at the best of times) this was the moment that really got everybody choked up.īy the time their friend Becky had finished reading, there wasn't a dry eye in the room.Ĭaptain Corelli's Mandolin is a book (or the film, if you're not a big reader) with a beautiful love story set on a Greek island during World War II.

Photo by Elaine Palladino Photography via Bridal Musings Corellis Mandolin works on many levels, as a love story, a war story, and a deconstruction of just what determines the facts that make it into the history books. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from. It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. It's an adapted excerpt from Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is a sweeping narrative set in equal parts war, love, history, and philosophy. Penguin Random House, 2011 - Cephalonia (Greece : Municipality) - 534 pages. So as you may know, we like to share some unique/poignant/beautiful ceremony readings from time to time to inspire you guys for your own all important nuptials, and today I'm sharing one that's especially close to my heart. Hello dear readers, Claire (BM ed) here, I hope you guys are having an awesome weekend so far? Corelli’s Mandolin is a work of romantic historical fiction by Louis de Bernières.