70 Wedding Quotes For Invitations, Cards & Toasts

Wedding quotes

A quote embellishes an invitation, congratulations card, or toast to the bride and groom with a touch of sophistication, humor, or affection. Here we offer a generous assortment of memorable remarks about love and marriage spoken or penned by authors, musicians, playwrights, poets, screenwriters, and world leaders from a kaleidoscope of cultures, ancient to modern. For a personalized greeting card, add your favorite quote to a wedding message just for them. You’ll find inspiration in our wedding messages and wishes article. 

“So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:13
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
Albert Einstein
“Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.”
Albert Einstein
“If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
Alfred Tennyson 
“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
Alice Walker
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
Andre Marois
I look at you and I’m home. -Andrew Stanton, Finding Nemo
“I look at you and I’m home.”
Andrew Stanton, Finding Nemo
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Airman’s Odyssey
“Think not because you are now wed, that all your courtship’s at an end.”
Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle
“When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
Arrigo Boito
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.”
Charles Dickens
“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
Dave Meurer
“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
You are my sun, my moon and all of my stars. -E.E Cummings
“You are my sun, my moon and all of my stars.”
E.E Cummings
“All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.”
Ed Sheeran 
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
Edgar Allan Poe 
“Love is two people dancing in a kitchen.”
ehb 
“Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach… “
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“How wonderful life is, now you’re in the world.”
Elton John
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Emily Bronte
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on X-Rays, but you know it's there. -George Burns
“Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn’t show up on X-Rays, but you know it’s there.”
George Burns
“Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.”
Henry David Thoreau
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Henry David Thoreau
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Hermann Hesse
“Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.”
J.D. Salinger
“You have bewitched me, body and soul and I love, love, love you.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly and then all at once.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
All of me, loves all of you.”
John Legend
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
Joseph Campbell
“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
“I would find you in any lifetime.”
Kanye West
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -Khalil Gibran
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
Khalil Gibran
“When someone else’s happiness is your happiness, that is love.”
Lana Del Ray
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
Lao Tzu
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
Leo Christopher
“Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way.”
Pablo Neruda
“Where there is love there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
Mark Twain
“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
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“The bride and groom–May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.”
Minna Thomas Antrim, A Book of Toasts
“…my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“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, The History of Love
“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally
Some people are worth melting for. -Olaf, character from Frozen
“Some people are worth melting for.”
Olaf, character from Frozen
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
Oscar Wilde
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
Oscar Wilde
“Ah me! love cannot be cured by herbs.”
Ovid
“At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
Plato
“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
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
Robert Browning
The goal of marriage is not to think alike, but to think together. -Robert C. Dodds
“The goal of marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.”
Robert C. Dodds
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert Heinlein
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.”
Roy Croft
“One is very crazy when in love.”
Sigmund Freud
“I have found the one whom my soul loves.”
Song of Solomon 3:4
“With a love like that, you know you should be glad.”
The Beatles, She Loves You
“With a love like that, you know you should be glad.”
The Beatles, She Loves You
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Victor Hugo
“Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.”
Will Ferrell
“Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.”
Will Ferrell
“This is true love — you think this happens every day?”
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say 'I love you'. -William Shakespeare
“I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you.”
William Shakespeare
“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”
William Shakespeare