There’s something magical about weddings. They are filled with love, joy, and the promise of a new beginning. As two hearts come together, words spoken at weddings have a special power. They don’t just fill the air; they touch the soul.
Wedding quotes can add that perfect touch to a ceremony, a toast, or a wedding speech. They can make a moment unforgettable. Whether you’re looking for words to express your feelings or to capture the essence of the day, the right quote can be just what you need. Here’s a collection of some of the best wedding quotes to inspire and celebrate love.
Wedding Quotes for Romance
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” —Emily Brontë
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” —David Viscott
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” —Dr. Seuss
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” —Audrey Hepburn
“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
“True love stories never have endings.” —Richard Bach
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” —Maya Angelou
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” —Aristotle
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.” —Plato
“To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.” —Mark Twain
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” —”Moulin Rouge”
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.” —Rumi
“Two souls with but a single thought; two hearts that beat as one.” —John Keats
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” —Voltaire
“Where there is love, there is life.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“Nunc scio quit sit amor.” (“Now I know what love is.”) —Virgil
“Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.” —Robert Browning
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” —Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” —Pablo Picasso
“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
“And I will make thee beds of roses, and a thousand fragrant posies.” —Christopher Marlowe
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” —Mignon McLaughlin
“The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.” —Josiah G. Holland
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” —Judy Garland
“Love is friendship that has caught fire.” —Ann Landers
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” —Blaise Pascal
“To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” —David Viscott
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” —Janos Arany
“The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.” —William Shakespeare
“They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.” —Bil Keane
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” —Edgar Allan Poe
“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born—you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” —E.E. Cummings
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” —Robert A. Heinlein
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.” —”Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
Timeless Marriage Quotes
“Love believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.”
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
“Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.”
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
“The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person who you cannot live without.”
“A great marriage isn’t something that just happens; it’s something that must be created.”
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
“Where there is love there is life.”
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”
“True love stories never have endings.”
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”
“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.”
“Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“When I am with you, the only place I want to be is closer.”
“Love is not something you look for; love is something you become.”
“The highest happiness on earth is marriage.”
“You are my today and all of my tomorrows.”
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”
“Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.”
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
“Two souls with but a single thought; two hearts that beat as one.”
“The best proof of love is trust.”
Funny Wedding Quotes
“Marriage is a workshop… where the husband works and the wife shops.”
“My wife, Mary, and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.”
“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
“Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.”
“Before marrying someone, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.”
“Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.”
“Marriage is like a walk in the park… Jurassic Park.”
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”
“We were married for better or worse. I couldn’t have done better and she couldn’t have done worse.”
“Marriage: when dating goes too far.”
“I now pronounce you man and wife. You may now update your Facebook status.”
“In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.”
“Marriage is like a deck of cards. In the beginning, all you need is two hearts and a diamond. By the end, you wish you had a club and a spade.”
“Marriage is the bond between a person who never remembers anniversaries and another who never forgets them.”
“Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.”
“For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.”
“You know there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time… Husband!”
“Marry a man your own age; as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.”
“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”
“Marriage lets you annoy one special person for the rest of your life.”
“Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.”
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
“Getting married is like trading the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.”
“Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.”
“The most important four words for a successful marriage: I’ll do the dishes.”
“Marriage is like vitamins: We supplement each other’s minimum daily requirements.”
“My husband and I fell in love at first sight… maybe I should have taken a second look.”
“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”
“Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings and lawyers.”
“Husbands are like wine; they take a long time to mature.”
“Every day I fall more in love with you. Except on those days when you really annoy me.”
“A wedding band is the smallest handcuff ever made, and I’m happy to be locked up for life.”
“Marriage is like a phone call at night: first the ring, and then you wake up.”
Inspirational Wedding Quotes
“You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry someone you cannot live without.”
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.”
“Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.”
“Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.”
“A good marriage is one where each partner secretly suspects they got the better deal.”
“The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.”
“Two souls with but a single thought; two hearts that beat as one.”
“And the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
“Where there is love there is life.”
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
“Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.”
“A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.”
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“True love stories never have endings.”
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“Love is the greatest adventure.”
“Marriage is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.”
“In you, I’ve found the love of my life and my closest, truest friend.”
“When I say I love you more, I don’t mean I love you more than you love me. I mean I love you more than the bad days ahead of us, I love you more than any fight we will ever have. I love you more than the distance between us, I love you more than any obstacle that could try and come between us. I love you the most.”
“To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.”
“A true love story never ends.”
Classic Love Quotes
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
“You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry someone you cannot live without.”
“Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
“My soul and your soul are forever tangled.”
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.”
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
“And the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
“You are my today and all of my tomorrows.”
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.”
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
“Where there is love there is life.”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.”
“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”
“True love stories never have endings.”
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”
“When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you, and I’m home.”
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
“I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had.”
“You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.”
“It doesn’t matter where you are going; it’s who you have beside you.”
Celebrity Wedding Quotes
“Where there is love, there is life.”
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”
“I have found the one whom my soul loves.”
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
“You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry someone you cannot live without.”
“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.”
“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.”
“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.”
“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.”
“Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
“True love stories never have endings.”
“A wedding is an event, but marriage is a journey.”
“The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make—not just on your wedding day, but over and over again.”
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
“Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.”
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
“You know you are in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“Marriage is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is Eternity.”
“To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.”
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
“Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.”
“There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.”
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
Religious Wedding Quotes
“Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
“I have found the one whom my soul loves.”
“Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”
“And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
“Let all that you do be done in love.”
“Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.”
“Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.”
“May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.”
“Where you go, I will go, and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.”
“And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”
“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.”
“Love each other as I have loved you.”
“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
“Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.”
“Let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.”
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”
“Do everything in love.”
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”
“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.”
“The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy.”
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.”
“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.”
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.”
“For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back.”
“Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.”
“Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.”
“Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.”
“So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
“Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.”
Quotes for Wedding Vows
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.”
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.”
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.”
“Two hearts in love need no words.”
“I choose you. And I’ll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you.”
“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.”
“Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.”
“You are the love that came without warning; you had my heart before I could say no.”
“I have found the one whom my soul loves.”
“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
“You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had.”
“In a sea of people, my eyes will always search for you.”
“Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.”
“I could make you happy, make your dreams come true. Nothing that I wouldn’t do. Go to the ends of the Earth for you, to make you feel my love.”
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
“Where there is love, there is life.”
“You complete me.”
“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.”
“You are my today and all of my tomorrows.”
“When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
“Our love is like the wind. I can’t see it, but I can feel it.”
“I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.”
“To me, you are perfect.”
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.”
“I promise to always be by your side. Or under you. Or on top.”
“With my whole heart, for my whole life.”
“And in your smile, I see something more beautiful than the stars.”
Heartfelt Wedding Toast Quotes
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“And so they are ever returning to us, the people we love, bringing wholeness of heart to us. May their lives together bring them all that is good, beautiful, and true.”
“The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.”
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.”
“True love stories never have endings.”
“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.”
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”
“Love is not about how many days, months, or years you’ve been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.”
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
“My soul made its way to yours and said, ‘Oh, there you are. I’ve been looking for you.'”
“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
“Love is a partnership of two unique people who bring out the very best in each other, and who know that even though they are wonderful as individuals, they are even better together.”
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.”
“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.”
“Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.”
“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.”
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
“Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.”
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.”
To Sum Up
Finding the perfect wedding quote can add a special touch to your big day. Whether you want something romantic, funny, or insightful, the right words can express your feelings beautifully. These quotes can make your vows, toasts, or invitations even more memorable. They capture the essence of love and commitment in just a few words.
So, take your time to explore different quotes and find the ones that speak to you. The right quote can bring a smile, a tear, or even a little laughter to your wedding. It’s a simple yet meaningful way to celebrate your love and share it with those who matter most.
