Wedding Quotes

“You know what a wedding feast is like after the guests and the loving couple have left. The dawn’s twilight pillories the abandoned mess. The broken earthenware, the tables thrown around, the extinguished embers, all bear the traces of a swirling vortex frozen into stillness. But no matter how you try to read these traces,” my father said, “you will learn nothing about love from them.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Sorry everyone, we made a mistake, I didn’t want this guy. I hope you had fun at my wedding, come to my divorce party tomorrow! Thanks, kisses!”

– Vavyan Fable

“I could promise to love and cherish you, to be with you in sickness and in health, I could say ’til death do us part, but I won’t. Only optimistic couples say such things. Full of hope, but I’m not standing here at my wedding optimistically, nor full of hope. I’m not optimistic, nor do I hope, I’m determined, rock solid, and I know I’m a man of heart. I take them apart and put them back together, I hold them in my hand. I’m a man of heart. One thing is certain: you are my partner, my love, and my best friend. My heart, my heart beats for you, and on this day, our wedding day, I can promise one thing: I promise to give you my heart, I give myself to you.”

– Grey’s Anatomy

“Fate very much wanted this wedding to take place on time. The road smoothed evenly and seamlessly under their feet, and the obstacles, like feathers blown by the wind, easily floated away from them.”

– Ara Rauch

“A wedding is like a work contract. The work only begins after the contract is signed!”

– Marie Clarence

“I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but my image of the perfect wedding is constantly changing. One day I want white roses, the next day lilies. First a harpist, then a string quartet. Only one thing is constant, and that’s you.”

– Desperate Housewives

“Marriage is not good for the complexion, it ages one. The wedding is depressingly simple. The registrar gives the wife to her husband, how flat a thing! The crude nature of marriage creates a final situation, deprives man of his will, of the possibility of choice, it has a syntax like grammar, it replaces inspiration with spelling, it degrades love into a written paper, it destroys the mystery of life, it makes obvious the periodic, inevitable things – a naked woman is no longer a heavenly sight – it devalues the rights of both the one who exercises them and the one who submits to them, it disturbs the charming balance of the strong sex and the powerful not by tilting the scales. For in marriage the lord stands before his servant, where before the queen ruled over her slave. To make the bed prosaic all the way to propriety, could there be a cruder conception? Is it not a foolish thing in itself that it is no longer a sin to love each other?”

– Victor Hugo

“A wedding, despite all its weaknesses, is an expression of optimism, a bold declaration by a couple that they will succeed. In every wedding there is the courageous determination that this couple will defy the divorce statistics.”

– Michelle Richmond

“Have you ever wondered what comes after ‘happily ever after’? (…) After the wedding is over, everyone goes home, and the couple unpacks all the gifts with gold-crested monograms? Because that’s where fairy tales end. After all the trials, courtship, and trauma. From then on, they just sit in the castle, polishing the many toasters they received as wedding gifts.”

– Jennifer Crusie

“Photographing victory is much like photographing a wedding in a church ten minutes after the newlyweds have left. Some confetti still glittered in the mud of the square, but the empty-stomached wedding guests had quickly dispersed, and everyone was already wondering if the newlyweds would be at each other’s throats tomorrow.”

– Robert Capa

“We, that is women, are terribly fond of getting married. From the time we are little girls, we admire beautifully dressed dolls, we learn from weddings what a great party it is, and that it is the most beautiful day in the lives of the fairytale brides. Of course, we constantly crave this! Unlike men. You are raised among different stereotypes, you lose your freedom, you are caught by harpies, the groom gets a slipper on his wedding day. And yet, whatever you do, we hunt you down again and again. There is no escape! But once we have hunted down the prey, we still ponder the consequences. Is it worth the fancy ceremony, the outrageously expensive, envied dress, the mile-long veil, the diamond ring? Is it worth what follows the next day? The next day and after? For years, for a lifetime?”

– Vavyan Fable

“You are rudely deceived by both fairy tales and movies! The story does not end at all at the wedding! No, no! The ‘…and they lived happily ever after’ formula is just a cover-up for all the tragic things that follow the solemn, pompous handshake! Aren’t the unsuspecting brides so cute, beautiful, and radiant? Haha! They shine one more time, for the last time! Because from the next day on, the lifelong suck begins! That stamped piece of paper that is issued at the wedding stating that you are also bureaucratically a couple with your heart’s chosen one (listen, a very telling phrase: not the chosen one of your mind, but of your stupid heart!) well, this stamp also seals your sky-high love!”

– Vavyan Fable

“- I love weddings, a celebration of love and hope, and there’s cake. – The bride pretends to be a virgin, the groom pretends he’s found the one, and the parents pretend they like each other. Christmas for liars. – And yet it’s beautiful.”

–  Lie If You Can!

“In most fashionable marriages, the fire of love gradually subsides into affection. After the relationship is sanctified, the vows have been spoken, and the wedding cakes have been deliciously consumed, passionate glances are entitled to give way to friendly looks, and the once fiercely beating hearts also slow down to a more comfortable, pleasant rhythm.”

– Julia Barrett

“- Do you remember the wedding? – Crystal clear. We walked to the registry office to give ourselves one last chance to escape. We ran down the road. Sometimes I wanted to run away, sometimes you did. My dress tore before you dragged me there.”

– Vavyan Fable

“And when evening comes, a warm wind whispers, your veils flutter playfully, and we will watch together the friendly smile of the stars, young married couple.”

– Paul Verlaine

“For a woman, a wedding means that every aspect of her life changes. She moves into a new house, gets a new name, new duties await her. Marriage means that a man singles out a woman from all the others, places her above all other women, chooses her as the object of his love and protection.”

– Karen Essex

“May your burdens be light, your joys overflowing, may fate bless your shared path, and grant these two souls countless peaceful nights and passionate days.”

– J. R. Ward

“Living among people, I heard very early on about the sanctity of marriage and the fairytale atmosphere of weddings, and from the first moment I was enchanted by this topic, even though I didn’t even know what love was… Today, however, I thought that for two compatible souls there could be no more beautiful celebration than the ceremony sealing love with an oath, which – if made with a sincere heart – lasts for eternal life.”

– A. O. Esther

“Weddings seem to attract trouble and all the madness that lurks in the family’s storage. They can bring out the insanity in the participants in many ways.”

– Robert Fulghum

“As long as I live, I will love you, I will own and hold you, You look so beautiful in white, And from now until my last breath, I will cherish this day.”

– Westlife

“Some people think marriage is a challenge. I think getting married is more of a challenge. Once you’re over it, the rest is nothing.” 

– NUMB3RS 

“If I were nothing, our oath would still live, even then take both our hearts to your grave.”

– Glendon Swarthout

“I love weddings! The atmosphere! Everyone is happy, full of anticipation and hope. And unsuspecting. But this is a prerequisite, otherwise it won’t work.”

– Katarina Mazetti

“I promise you that you will always have the best of me that I can give.”

– Jay Crownover

“A wedding is like a driving test. You pass it, of course, but you only learn to drive afterwards. Or you crash.”

– Priceless Love

“Couples should plan their wedding before the ceremony and only go into marriage if they still like each other.”

– Dan Ariely

“I’ve had a big, fancy wedding, and believe me, it doesn’t always end with ‘happily ever after’…”

– Mamma Mia!

“You know what I hate about ‘happily ever after’? (…) That the story ends with happiness, but that’s when the best part comes.”

– Fairy Tale Love

“A woman on her wedding day forgives everyone, they can say anything.”

– Jü Hua

“For my part, I have never seen a wedding photo that was worth framing after the divorce.”

– Dimitri Verhulst

“The wedding is the most beautiful day of our lives, so we decided to get married every day, so our life remains a constant heaven.”

– Olivier Bourdeaut

“Gold is the result of a supernova explosion billions of years ago. The ring we wear comes from the collapse of a massive star. We carry the remnants of this stellar catastrophe as a sign of our belonging. It suits us, it is just as deeply rooted in the supposed layers of the universe as we are.”

– Jostein Gaarder

“Simply because something is related to a wedding, the price immediately triples. You want two laurel trees on either side of your front door? Great! Here are two nice trees for a total of fifty pounds. Oh, you need them for the wedding banquet? That’s quite different. Then let me tie some ribbons around the pots, and they’ll immediately cost double.”

– Josie Silver

“Life is being with you. I was given to you and you to me. I will be faithful to you, honest. We are no longer two, but one. We are one. One.”

– The New World

“The wedding usually does not benefit the groom or the bride. Most couples would be satisfied if they could do it together (…). They say a few words to each other and then leave. Weddings are much more rituals of the community.”

– Deborah Harkness

“No matter how elegant or intimate a wedding is, it brings to the surface a flood of complex emotions. Lost loves, unrequited feelings, and a wide range of love, regret, and disappointment sweep over us and disrupt our peace of mind.”

– Dorothea Benton Frank

“You and I, our hands touch, and a new world is born.”

– Jacqueline Carey

“Every bride would like to believe that her wedding was the most wonderful in the world.”

– Julie Garwood

“The wedding is not just about saying ‘yes’. It is a celebration of what marriage means: two people connecting their lives, starting a family.”

– The Goldbergs

“When we say ‘I do,’ we are only making a promise, expressing our trust in the other, but we can only hope to keep our word.”

– Danielle Steel

“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”

– Franklin P. Jones

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

– Mignon McLaughlin

“Marriage is not about ‘you complete me’. It’s about ‘I love you even though you drive me crazy sometimes’.”

 (Unknown Author)

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”

– Moulin Rouge! 

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

– Lao Tzu

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

– Aristotle

“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. That’s what I hope to give you forever.”  

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

Maya Angelou

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”

George Sand

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”

Helen Keller

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

Mignon McLaughlin

“Marriage is not about ‘you complete me’. It’s about ‘I love you even though you drive me crazy sometimes’.”

Anonymus

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”

Robert Browning

“Love is not finding someone you can live with, it’s finding someone you can’t live without.”

Rafael Centeno

“Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.”

Anonymus

“You don’t marry someone you can live with—you marry the person you cannot live without.”

Anonymus

“A marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s the way you love your partner every day.”

Barbara De Angelis

“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.”

Simone Signoret

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

Bruce Lee

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”

David Viscott

“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 – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.”

Barbara De Angelis

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

Dr. Seuss

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

“It’s not enough to say you love them, you have to show it.”

Anonymus

“A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.”

Anonymus

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”

Winston Churchill

“Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.”

Jennifer Smith

“The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.”

William Lyon Phelps

“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.”

Vincent van Gogh

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”

Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“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.”

When Harry Met Sally… (film)

“It’s like in that moment the whole universe existed just to bring us together.”

Serendipity (film)

“You had me at hello.”

Jerry Maguire (film)

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.”

The Notebook (film)

“I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love.”

The Vow (film)

“True love stories never have endings.”

Richard Bach

“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”

Dave Meurer

“The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.”

Woody Allen

“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”

Sam Levenson

“A marriage is a long conversation, interrupted by arguments.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“The most wasted of days is one without laughter.”

E.E. Cummings (This applies well to a happy marriage)

“You are my today and all of my tomorrows.”

Leo Christopher

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”

Roy Croft

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”

Hermann Hesse

“The best view comes after the hardest climb.” (Applies to the challenges of marriage)

Anonymus

“Being someone’s first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.”

Anonymus

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

Audrey Hepburn

“A true love story never ends.”

Anonymus

“Happiness is being married to your best friend.”

Anonymus

“Marriage is a gift. It’s a treasure. It’s a promise.”

Gary Smalley

“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.”

Julia Child

“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”

Mark Twain

“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”

André Maurois

“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”

André Breton

“The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.”

Fawn Weaver