Weddings are timeless ceremonies that celebrate the union of two individuals and the love they share. They mark the beginning of a new chapter in life, filled with dreams, hopes, and joy. Quotes about weddings and love can encapsulate the myriad emotions associated with this special day. Our collection of happy wedding quotes spread across ten diverse categories will help you convey the beauty and significance of this occasion. From romantic whispers to humorous anecdotes, each quote is carefully selected to resonate with the essence of love and commitment. Whether you are a bride, groom, or wedding attendee, these quotes can enrich the experience and provide inspiration. Prepare to explore a spectrum of sentiments that reflect on the profound unity and lifelong commitment symbolized by marriage. Let these quotes guide you in expressing heartfelt emotions and sharing timeless wisdom about love and happiness.
Romantic Wedding Quotes
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." - Eden Ahbez
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." - Maya Angelou
"You don't marry someone you can live with, you marry the person you cannot live without." - Unknown
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
"In dreams and in love, there are no impossibilities." - Janos Arany
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle
"A wedding is a start of togetherness, of walks in the rain, basking in the sunshine, shared meals, caring for one another, and sensing the love that a marriage carries." - Unknown
"True love stories never have endings." - Richard Bach
"Where there is love there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one." - Friedrich Halm
Humorous Wedding Quotes
"Marriage is a workshop… where the husband works and the wife shops." - Unknown
"The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret." - Henny Youngman
"A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes into it." - Unknown
"My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way." - Henny Youngman
"Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are." - Will Ferrell
"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash." - Joyce Brothers
"Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener." - Pauline Thomason
"I love being married. It's so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." - Rita Rudner
"Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway." - Joey Adams
"There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again." - Clint Eastwood
"Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn’t they’d be married too." - H. L. Mencken
"Getting married is like trading the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one." - Mae West
Inspirational Wedding Quotes
"The highest happiness on earth is marriage." - William Lyon Phelps
"Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairytale." - Unknown
"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same." - Helen Keller
"Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person." - Sophia Bush
"A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers." - Ruth Bell Graham
"Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Franklin P. Jones
"A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time." - Anne Taylor Fleming
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." - Oscar Wilde
"The secret to a long marriage is staying married." - Charles Swindoll
"Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story." - Jennifer Smith
"You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
"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." - Barbara De Angelis
Quotes about Love and Marriage
"To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence." - Sydney Smith
"The perfect marriage begins when each partner believes they got better than they deserve." - Unknown
"Marriage is a bond between a person who never remembers anniversaries and another who never forgets them." - Unknown
"Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling." - Unknown
"Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." - Karl Menninger
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"We love because it’s the only true adventure." - Nikki Giovanni
"The essence of love is kindness." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"There is no remedy for love but to love more." - Henry David Thoreau
"Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself." - Andre Breton
"Love is not something you feel; it is something you do." - David Wilkerson
"Marriage is getting to have a sleepover with your best friend every single night of the week." - Christie Cook
Sentimental Wedding Quotes
"I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, and all you’re yet to be." - Unknown
"Forever is a long time, but I wouldn’t mind spending it by your side." - Unknown
"Take my hand, and my whole life too, for I can't help falling in love with you." - Elvis Presley
"There are no regrets in life, just lessons." - Jennifer Aniston
"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew." - Arrigo Boito
"You are the best thing that’s ever been mine." - Taylor Swift
"To me, you are perfect." - Mark Darcy, Love Actually
"I knew I loved you before I met you." - Savage Garden
"Love me and the world is mine." - David Reed
"The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship." - Jacqueline Kennedy
"It’s amazing how one day someone walks into your life, and suddenly, you can’t remember how you lived without them." - Anurag Prakash Ray
"I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day." - Nicholas Sparks
Classic Wedding Quotes
"The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss." - Unknown
"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." - Dr. Seuss
"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?" - George Eliot
"And I knew exactly how old Walt Disney’s Cinderella felt when she found her prince." - Elizabeth Young
"Where there is love there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Who, being loved, is poor?" - Oscar Wilde
"There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage." - Martin Luther
"They say marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning." - Clint Eastwood
"A wedding is a celebration of a marriage, a joining of hearts, a unity of souls." - Unknown
"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 beauty of marriage is not always seen from the very beginning—but rather as love grows and bonds them as one." - Unknown
"To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with." - Mark Twain
Famous Wedding Quotes
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take." - Madeleine L’Engle
"Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife." - Franz Schubert
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Bronte
"I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart." - Alice Walker
"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
"Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Franklin P. Jones
"Love is not only something you feel, but it is also something you do." - David Wilkerson
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." - Audrey Hepburn
"The best time to love with your whole heart is always now." - Oprah Winfrey
"I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and 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
"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
Personalized Wedding Quotes
"When I look into your eyes, I know I’ve found the mirror of my soul." - Unknown
"You have my whole heart for my whole life." - Unknown
"All that you are is all that I’ll ever need." - Ed Sheeran
"I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone." - J.R.R. Tolkien
"Your love shines in my heart as the sun that shines upon the earth." - Eleanor Di Guillo
"I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love." - William Blake
"Enthralling and wonderful was the day that united us, into one heart becoming one soul." - Unknown
"You make me want to be a better man." - Melvin Udall
"It is not love that makes a relationship complicated; it’s the people in it who do." - Unknown
"Everything happens for a reason, and that reason is you." - Unknown
"True love is the greatest adventure." - Unknown
"I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever." - The Vow
Modern Wedding Quotes
"You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person who you cannot live without." - Unknown
"In the end, there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to." - Robert Brault
"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." - Nicholas Sparks
"I have found the one whom my soul loves." - Song of Solomon 3:4
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen
"In a happy marriage, it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape." - Unknown
"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others." - Sophie Swetchine
"There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage." - Martin Luther
"Marriage is a thousand little things... it’s giving up your slice of pie so your loved one can have it. It’s resisting the urge to scream over the burnt toast." - Anonymous
"Love is friendship that has caught fire." - Ann Landers
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." - Audrey Hepburn
"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever." - Alfred Tennyson
Forever Love Quotes
"Forever is a long time, but I wouldn’t mind spending it by your side." - Unknown
"Our love is like the wind. I can’t see it, but I can feel it." - Nicholas Sparks
"You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you." - Jane Austen
"How wonderful life is, now you’re in the world." - Elton John
"I want to be with you until the sun falls from the sky." - Unknown
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Hermann Hesse
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way." - Pablo Neruda
"My love for you is a journey; starting at forever, and ending at never." - Unknown
"Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will." - Unknown
"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
"A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you." - Unknown
"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." - Angelita Lim
Final words
As we conclude this exploration of wedding quotes, we are reminded of the timeless power words hold in articulating love and commitment. Each quote serves as a beacon, guiding newlyweds and those witnessing the ceremony through the spectrum of emotions that marriage encompasses. From the romantic to the humorous and the classic to the contemporary, these expressions capture the essence of what it means to love fully and be loved in return. These curated sayings are not just decorations of speech but are imprints of human connection, sentiment, and understanding. Embracing these messages helps nurture the marital journey and provides comfort in knowing others have traversed similar paths. Whether these quotes adorn wedding vows or offer a moment of reflection among guests, they undoubtedly contribute to the rich tapestry that makes wedding days so unforgettable. Let these words buoy the spirit of love through its many waves—cherishing the laughter, joy, and profound beauty that marriage brings to our lives. May these quotes not only celebrate weddings but enrich the bonds formed that day, sowing seeds of happiness and memories for many anniversaries to come.