270 Wedding Quotes to Make the Big Day Unforgettable

Wedding quotes capture what vows, toasts, and cards often struggle to say: the gravity and the joy of two lives becoming one. From Shakespeare and Jane Austen to modern voices, the best wedding quotes distill centuries of wisdom about love, marriage, and commitment into lines worth borrowing.

This collection gathers 270 verified wedding quotes across 14 sections — romantic lines for vows, short quotes for invitations, funny quotes for toasts, movie lines, celebrity words, scripture, and timeless blessings. Wedding customs vary across cultures and centuries (history of weddings), but the impulse to mark the day with memorable words is universal. Every attribution below has been checked against a reputable source; widely-circulating lines with uncertain origins are labeled “Attributed to.”

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Classic Literary Wedding Quotes

1. “And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts," Miss Jenny struck in, flushed, "she is proud.” — Charles Dickens
2. “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)” — e.e. cummings
3. “Hail, wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else!” — John Milton
4. “The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle— Why not I with thine?” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
5. “Love is my religion—I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.” — John Keats
6. “My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me.” — Christina Rossetti
7. “My true-love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given: I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss; There never was a better bargain driven.” — Sir Philip Sidney
8. “Blessed be the day, and the month, and the year, And the season, and the time, and the hour, and the moment, And the beautiful country, and the place where I was joined To the two beautiful eyes that have bound me.” — Petrarch
9. “For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
10. “The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.” — Dante Alighieri
11. “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs, That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms, In life after life, in age after age, forever.” — Rabindranath Tagore
12. “But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee—” — Edgar Allan Poe
13. “I might call him A thing divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble.” — William Shakespeare
14. “Open the temple gates unto my love, Open them wide that she may enter in, And all the posts adorn as doth behove, And all the pillars deck with garlands trim, For to receive this saint with honour due, That cometh in to you.” — Edmund Spenser
15. “True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, Gazing on many truths;” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
16. “Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good-fame, Plans, credit and the Muse,— Nothing refuse.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. “No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever—or else swoon to death—” — John Keats
18. “She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair;” — William Wordsworth
19. “Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.” — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
20. “Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” — W. B. Yeats
21. “Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;” — Matthew Arnold
22. “Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Or woods or steepy mountain yields.” — Christopher Marlowe
23. “One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.” — Edmund Spenser
24. “Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass,— The finger-points look through like rosy blooms: Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms 'Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass.” — Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Kahlil Gibran on Marriage

1. “Then Almitra spoke again and said, And what of Marriage, master?” — Kahlil Gibran
2. “Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.” — Kahlil Gibran
3. “But let there be spaces in your togetherness.” — Kahlil Gibran

Romantic Quotes for Wedding Vows

1. “I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.” — William Shakespeare
2. “O my luve's like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June.” — Robert Burns
3. “Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” — Leo Tolstoy
4. “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.” — Nicholas Sparks
5. “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” — Vladimir Nabokov
6. “Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” — Friedrich Halm
7. “Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.” — Katharine Lee Bates
8. “A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.” — Pearl S. Buck
9. “I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” — Henry Ward Beecher
10. “I love you more than yesterday but less than tomorrow.” — Rosemonde Gérard
11. “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” — Nicole Krauss
12. “Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls brought me here, and where was I before the day that I first saw your lovely face? Now I see it every day, and I know that I am, I am, I am the luckiest.” — Ben Folds
13. “I'd rather fight with you than make love with anyone else.” — Nick Mercer
14. “I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die, till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.” — Bayard Taylor
15. “I love you more than my own skin, and even though you don't love me the same way, you love me anyways, don't you? And if you don't, I'll always have the hope that you do, and I'm satisfied with that.” — Frida Kahlo
16. “I found him whom my soul loveth.” — King James Bible
17. “Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.” — John Donne
18. “Love is my religion—I could die for that—I could die for you.” — John Keats
19. “No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, but as truly loves on to the close.” — Thomas Moore
20. “When soul meets soul on lovers' lips.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
21. “I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go” — Song of Solomon 3:4 (KJV)
22. “For one is both and both are one in love.” — Christina Rossetti

Short Wedding Quotes

1. “Love is patient, love is kind.” — 1 Corinthians 13:4 (KJV)
2. “My heart is, and always will be, yours.” — Jane Austen
3. “Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” — Ben Hecht
4. “Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
5. “In dreams and in love there are no impossibles.” — János Arany
6. “Journey's end in lovers meeting.” — William Shakespeare
7. “Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.” — Soren Kierkegaard
8. “Above all, love each other deeply.” — 1 Peter 4:8 (KJV)
9. “Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality.” — José Ortega y Gasset
10. “Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” — Robert Frost
11. “You can't blame gravity for falling in love.” — Attributed to Albert Einstein
12. “With this ring I thee wed.” — Book of Common Prayer (1662)
13. “My heart is ever at your service.” — William Shakespeare
14. “Whither thou goest, I will go.” — Ruth 1:16 (KJV)
15. “All you need is love.” — The Beatles
16. “Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
17. “I love you right up to the moon—and back.” — Sam McBratney
18. “You had me at hello.” — Jerry Maguire
19. “At last, my love has come along.” — Etta James
20. “Home is wherever I'm with you.” — Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
21. “Omnia vincit amor.” — Virgil
22. “Love is friendship set on fire.” — Jeremy Taylor
23. “It's always better when we're together.” — Jack Johnson
24. “To have and to hold.” — Book of Common Prayer

Funny Wedding Quotes

1. “The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.” — Oscar Wilde
2. “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” — Will Ferrell
3. “My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce.” — Joyce Brothers
4. “I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” — Rita Rudner
5. “I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.” — Rita Rudner
6. “Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.” — Erma Bombeck
7. “Take my wife… please!” — Henny Youngman
8. “Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.” — Helen Rowland
9. “A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.” — Helen Rowland
10. “Love is blind — marriage is the eye-opener.” — Pauline Thomason
11. “Love is a lot like a backache: it doesn't show up on X-rays, but you know it's there.” — George Burns
12. “My wife is really sentimental. One Valentine's Day I gave her a ring and to this day she has never forgotten those three little words that were engraved inside — "Made in Taiwan."” — Leopold Fechtner
13. “Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.” — Evelyn Hendrickson
14. “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.” — Benjamin Franklin
15. “When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.” — Prince Philip
16. “A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.” — Samuel Johnson
17. “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.” — Agatha Christie
18. “To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.” — Ogden Nash
19. “Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.” — Albert Einstein
20. “A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.” — Grace Hansen
21. “Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.” — Billy Connolly
22. “Marriage is like a game of chess, except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke, and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.” — Jerry Seinfeld
23. “Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on X-rays, but you know it's there.” — George Burns
24. “The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.” — Groucho Marx

Wedding Toast Quotes

1. “Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious: both are disappointed.” — Oscar Wilde
2. “Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.” — Attributed to Groucho Marx
3. “Take my wife—please!” — Attributed to Henny Youngman
4. “My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.” — Attributed to Rodney Dangerfield
5. “Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.” — Attributed to Mae West
6. “Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.” — Attributed to Oscar Wilde
7. “A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, you will go to the bottom together.” — Attributed to David Reuben
8. “Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.” — Attributed to Honoré de Balzac
9. “There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.” — Homer
10. “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.” — Martin Luther
11. “Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Attributed to Franklin P. Jones
12. “A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.” — Attributed to Paul Sweeney
13. “Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprised at the large number that re-enlist.” — James Garner
14. “I am a marvelous housekeeper: every time I leave a man, I keep his house.” — Attributed to Zsa Zsa Gabor
15. “A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.” — André Maurois
16. “May the roof above you never fall in, and those gathered beneath it never fall out.” — Irish blessing
17. “May your love be like the misty rain, gentle coming in but flooding the river.” — African blessing

Wedding Card Quotes

1. “The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.” — Attributed to William Lyon Phelps
2. “I swear I couldn't love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” — Attributed to Leo Christopher
3. “I love her, and that is the beginning and end of everything.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. “In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” — Jane Austen
5. “Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” — Attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes
6. “Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” — Attributed to Karl Menninger
7. “Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.” — Ben Hecht
8. “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald
9. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” — Sophocles
10. “Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.” — Iris Murdoch
11. “We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” — Attributed to Dr. Seuss
12. “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
13. “Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” — Germaine de Staël
14. “Happy marriages begin when we marry the one we love, and they blossom when we love the one we married.” — Attributed to Tom Mullen
15. “I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.” — Cassandra Clare
16. “Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.” — Paulo Coelho
17. “Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.” — Attributed to Lisa Hoffman
18. “In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.” — Virginia Woolf
19. “I don't want to live – I want to love first, and live incidentally.” — Zelda Fitzgerald
20. “So they are no longer two, but one flesh.” — The Bible
21. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” — Max Muller

Wedding Quotes from Movies

1. “Mawwiage. Mawwiage is what bwings us togethew today.” — Impressive Clergyman, The Princess Bride (1987)
2. “You complete me.” — Jerry Maguire, Jerry Maguire (1996)
3. “You make me want to be a better man.” — Melvin Udall, As Good as It Gets (1997)
4. “I love you. I knew it the minute I met you. I'm sorry it took so long for me to catch up. I just got stuck.” — Pat Solitano, Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
5. “Love means never having to say you're sorry.” — Oliver Barrett IV, Love Story (1970)
6. “I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” — Anna Scott, Notting Hill (1999)
7. “To me, you are perfect.” — Mark, Love Actually (2003)
8. “If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.” — David, Love Actually (2003)
9. “You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.” — Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind (1939)
10. “Here's looking at you, kid.” — Rick Blaine, Casablanca (1942)
11. “I think I'd miss you even if we'd never met.” — Nick Mercer, The Wedding Date (2005)
12. “So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you.” — Noah Calhoun, The Notebook (2004)
13. “I love you very much, probably more than anybody could love another person.” — Henry Roth, 50 First Dates (2004)
14. “You had me at hello.” — Dorothy Boyd, Jerry Maguire (1996)
15. “Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.” — Westley, The Princess Bride (1987)
16. “I will love you my whole life. You and no other.” — William Wallace, Braveheart (1995)
17. “You are my greatest adventure.” — Mr. Incredible, The Incredibles (2004)
18. “If you're a bird, I'm a bird.” — Noah Calhoun, The Notebook (2004)
19. “I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.” — Noah Calhoun, The Notebook (2004)
20. “You jump, I jump.” — Jack Dawson, Titanic (1997)

Quotes About Marriage

1. “What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.” — Leo Tolstoy
2. “It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
3. “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” — Ruth Bell Graham
4. “Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
5. “Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.” — Sydney Smith
6. “Successful long-term relationships are created through small words, small gestures, and small acts.” — John Gottman
7. “Nothing can bring a sense of security into the home as true love can.” — Billy Graham
8. “When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
9. “I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable.” — G. K. Chesterton
10. “The future of humanity passes by way of the family.” — Pope John Paul II
11. “It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God.” — Fulton Sheen
12. “Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.” — Phyllis Diller
13. “Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.” — Joyce Brothers
14. “If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.” — Zig Ziglar
15. “We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations — we're doing everything to keep our marriage together.” — Rodney Dangerfield
16. “Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.” — Jane Austen
17. “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” — Winston Churchill
18. “Marriage: Love is the reason. Lifelong friendship is the gift. Kindness is the cause. Til' death do us part is the length.” — Fawn Weaver
19. “Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.” — James C. Dobson
20. “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.” — Simone Signoret
21. “The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.” — Peter De Vries
22. “Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.” — Joseph Barth
23. “The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.” — Robert C. Dodds

Quotes About Commitment and Partnership

1. “When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're not sacrificing to the other, you're sacrificing to the relationship.” — Joseph Campbell
2. “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” — Sam Keen
3. “Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
4. “When we love we can let our hearts speak.” — bell hooks
5. “Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
6. “I become through my relation to the Thou; as I become I, I say Thou. All real living is meeting.” — Martin Buber
7. “To love somebody is not just a strong feeling—it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.” — Erich Fromm
8. “I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.” — M. Scott Peck
9. “Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.” — Fred Rogers
10. “Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.” — Emily Dickinson
11. “Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.” — Zora Neale Hurston
12. “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.” — Katharine Hepburn
13. “A good marriage isn't something you find, it's something you make, and you have to keep on making it.” — Gary Thomas
14. “A good marriage must be created. In the art of marriage the little things are the big things. It is never being too old to hold hands. It is never going to sleep angry.” — Wilferd Arlan Peterson
15. “You have known each other from the first glance of acquaintance to this point of commitment. At some point, you decided to marry. From that moment of yes, to this moment of yes, indeed, you have been making commitments in an informal way.” — Robert Fulghum
16. “These are the hands of your best friend, young and strong and full of love for you, that are holding yours on your wedding day, as you promise to love each other today, tomorrow, and forever. These are the hands that will work alongside yours, as together you build your future.” — Rev. Daniel L. Harris
17. “Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” — Margery Williams
18. “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
19. “No road is long with good company.” — Turkish proverb
20. “My friends are my “estate.” Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.” — Emily Dickinson
21. “Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” — Vince Lombardi
22. “All for one and one for all.” — Alexandre Dumas
23. “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?” — Henry David Thoreau

Modern Celebrity Wedding Quotes

1. “The best thing I ever did was marrying Rosalynn. That's the pinnacle of my life.” — Jimmy Carter
2. “We don't even say we're married anymore. We refer to ourselves as 'life partners,' where you get into that space where you realize you are literally with somebody for the rest of your life.” — Will Smith
3. “But we do have a great respect and admiration for each other. We both have a great sense of humor. So, we have a lot of fun.” — Dolly Parton
4. “I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?” — Paul Newman
5. “We get old and get used to each other. We think alike. We read each others minds. We know what the other wants without asking. Sometimes we irritate each other a little bit. Maybe sometimes take each other for granted. But once in awhile, like today, I meditate on it and realize how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met.” — Johnny Cash
6. “We actually thought we were going to be the black Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, but we were going to stay together!” — Samuel L. Jackson
7. “The success of our relationship was a matter of timing, maturity, and our willingness to have an intimate connection. When I married Rita, I thought, 'This is going to require some change on my part.'” — Tom Hanks
8. “I would not be the woman I am if I did not go home to that man. It just gives me such a foundation.” — Beyoncé
9. “The difference between a house and a home, it's a big difference. You can buy a house, but that doesn't make it a home — and not to say a man can't make a home a home, but my wife has made our house a home, and raised these beautiful kids and protected them and sacrificed for them, she did the heavy-lifting.” — Denzel Washington
10. “Whatever I treasure and enjoy — this home, our ranch, the sight of the sea — all would be without meaning if I didn't have you. I live in a permanent Christmas because God gave me you.” — Ronald Reagan
11. “For people like us, the marriage certificate wasn't going to create anything that otherwise we wouldn't have.” — Kurt Russell
12. “I'm lucky I found my wife. And I guess maybe, if there's any secret, it's to feel lucky.” — Matt Damon
13. “It has to be a true partnership, and you have to really, really like and respect the person you're married to, because it is a hard road.” — Michelle Obama
14. “The best decision I ever made in my entire life was to hitch my wagon to Danny Moder.” — Julia Roberts
15. “I got down on my knee and said, 'I couldn't imagine spending the rest of my life without you.'” — George Clooney
16. “My favorite thing about David is probably his smile. Yes, he can cook. And yes, he can throw a party. And yes, he's an amazing dad. And yes, he can dance. And yes, he can sing better than most. But look at those pearly whites.” — Neil Patrick Harris
17. “I want to thank my wife, Blake, who is sitting right there, who is everything to me. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me. You make everything better. You make everything in my life better.” — Ryan Reynolds
18. “Portia and I constantly say to each other, 'We are so lucky.' Sometimes it's lying in bed at night before I go to sleep, and I just say thank you to whatever, whoever is out there.” — Ellen DeGeneres
19. “Michelle — for the past 25 years, you have not only been my wife and mother of my children, you have been my best friend. You took on a role you didn't ask for and you made it your own, with grace and with grit and with style and good humor.” — Barack Obama

Inspirational Wedding Quotes for the New Chapter

1. “May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.” — James Dillet Freeman
2. “Within this Christian vision for marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse of the person God is creating.” — Timothy Keller
3. “Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon.” — E. M. Forster
4. “Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink nor slumber nor a roof against the rain.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay
5. “Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
6. “O my Luve's like a red, red rose that's newly sprung in June; O my Luve's like the melodie that's sweetly played in tune.” — Robert Burns
7. “If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.” — W. H. Auden
8. “What will survive of us is love.” — Philip Larkin
9. “That best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” — William Wordsworth
10. “True love is eternal, infinite, always like unto itself; it is equable, pure, without violent demonstration; white hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.” — Honoré de Balzac
11. “For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.” — Dag Hammarskjöld
12. “And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” — The Bible
13. “He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.” — The Bible
14. “We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell
15. “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.” — Edith Lovejoy Pierce
16. “You know also that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.” — Plato
17. “Do not wait; the time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” — Napoleon Hill
18. “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” — Vern McLellan
19. “He says the best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost
20. “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” — C. S. Lewis

Religious and Spiritual Wedding Quotes

1. “Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.” — The Bible (King James Version)
2. “What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” — The Bible (King James Version)
3. “My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.” — The Bible (King James Version)
4. “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” — The Bible (King James Version)
5. “Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” — The Bible (King James Version)
6. “And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.” — The Bible (King James Version)
7. “It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.” — The Bible (King James Version)
8. “And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.” — The Bible (King James Version)
9. “And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.” — The Bible (King James Version)
10. “Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.” — The Bible (King James Version)
11. “So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.” — The Bible (King James Version)
12. “No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.” — The Bible (King James Version)
13. “Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.” — The Bible (King James Version)
14. “For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.” — The Bible (King James Version)
15. “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” — The Bible (King James Version)
16. “Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.” — The Bible (King James Version)
17. “House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.” — The Bible (King James Version)
18. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.” — Rumi
19. “Let the beauty we love be what we do.” — Rumi
20. “Be certain that in the religion of love there are no believers and unbelievers. Love embraces all.” — Rumi
21. “A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.” — Rumi
22. “And among His Signs is this, that He created for you mates from among yourselves, that ye may dwell in tranquillity with them, and He has put love and mercy between your (hearts): verily in that are Signs for those who reflect.” — The Quran (Yusuf Ali translation)
23. “And those who say, 'Our Lord, grant us from among our wives and offspring comfort to our eyes and make us an example for the righteous.'” — The Quran (Sahih International translation)
24. “They are not said to be husband and wife, who merely sit together. They alone are called husband and wife, who have one light in two bodies.” — Guru Amar Das

Timeless Wedding Blessings and Sayings

1. “May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.” — Traditional Irish blessing
2. “Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter to the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other. Now there is no more loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two bodies, but there is only one life before you. Go now to your dwelling place, to enter into the days of your togetherness. And may your days be good and long upon the earth.” — Traditional blessing, often called the Apache wedding blessing
3. “God, the best maker of all marriages, combine your hearts in one.” — William Shakespeare
4. “May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.” — Traditional Irish blessing
5. “May God be with you and bless you. May you see your children's children. May you be rich in blessings and poor in misfortunes. May you know nothing but happiness from this day forward.” — Traditional Jewish wedding blessing
6. “Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.” — Martin Luther

How to Use These Wedding Quotes

• Wedding vows: choose one romantic line as your opening or closing — short quotes land best when spoken aloud.
• Toasts and speeches: open with a funny quote to relax the room, then close with a heartfelt one.
• Cards and invitations: pair a short quote with a personal sentence of your own.
• Ceremony readings: scripture and literary passages work beautifully read by a loved one.
• Social media: match a quote to a photo and credit the author when you post.

More Wedding Quotes to Explore

• heartfelt wedding wishes for the happy couple
• wedding captions for Instagram
• engagement wishes for the newly engaged
• anniversary wishes for your wife
• anniversary wishes for your husband
• love quotes for him
• love captions for Instagram
• Instagram captions for couples
• family quotes
• happiness quotes
• friendship quotes
• faith quotes
• funny quotes
• self love quotes

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a good wedding quote for a card?

Short, warm lines work best in cards — for example, Jane Austen’s “My heart is, and always will be, yours” or Audrey Hepburn’s “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” Add one personal sentence of your own after the quote.

What are some short wedding quotes for invitations?

One-line quotes like Rumi’s “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love” or Shakespeare’s “Journey’s end in lovers meeting” fit invitations, programs, and signage without crowding the design.

What is the most famous wedding quote of all time?

Contenders include Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 (“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds”), the Brontë line from Wuthering Heights, and 1 Corinthians 13 on love’s patience and kindness — all verified and included above.

How do I choose a wedding quote for a toast?

Match the quote to your relationship with the couple and the room’s mood: open with humor (a clean funny quote breaks the ice), then close with something sincere. Keep the attribution handy in case anyone asks.