Inspiring Wedding Quotes For Bride, Groom, Couple & Friend

These wedding quotes will inspire you. A wedding is a ceremony where two people are united in marriage. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes. Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of marriage vows by the couple, presentation of gifts.

A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging wedding quotes, wedding sayings, and wedding wishes.

Best Wedding Quotes

1. “Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.” ~ Zig Ziglar
2. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
3. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
4. “What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

5. “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

6. “Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.” ~ Saint Augustine
7. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” ~ Maya Angelou
8. “In marriage, every day you love, and every day you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness” ~ Bill Moyers
9. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin

10. “May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.” ~ Marianne Williamson

11. “Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.” ~ James Dobson
12. “What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.” ~ George Eliot
13. “A marriage…makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.” ~ Mark Twain
14. “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

15. “grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.” ~ Robert Browning

16. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.” ~ Oscar Wilde
17. “I love you for the part of me that you bring out.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
18. “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
19. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn, Is just to love and be loved in return.” ~ Eden Ahbez

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

21. “A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise.” ~ Richard Bach
22. “When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.” ~ Joseph Campbell
23. “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
24. “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” ~ Henry Ford

25. “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

26. “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 , Wedding quotes for couple
27. “Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.” ~ Robert Frost
28. “One word
    Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
    That word is love.” ~ Sophocles
29. “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

30. “There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” ~ Martin Luther

31. “We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.” ~ John Lennon
32. “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.” ~ Rumi
33. “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.” ~ Agatha Christie
34. “Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.” ~ Timothy Keller , Wedding quotes for friend

35. “Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.” ~ Maggie Gallagher

36. “Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.” ~ Lisa Kleypas
37. “I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It’s not about a production number, it’s about a meaningful moment between two people that’s witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.” ~ Jane Seymour
38. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
39. “He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.” ~ William Shakespeare

40. “Love is like a friendship caught on fire.” ~ Bruce Lee

41. “He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
42. “One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.” ~ Robert Breault
43. “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
44. “Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.” ~ Ryan Gosling

45. “True love stories never have endings.” ~ Richard Bach

46. “You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” ~ Henry Drummond
47. “There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.” ~ Ronald Reagan
48. “Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.” ~ Maryon Pearson
49. “Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” ~ Roy M. Goodman

50. “It’s not the men in my life that count, it’s the life in my men.” ~ Mae West

51. “We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.” ~ Walter Rauschenbusch
52. “Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.” ~ Emily Dickinson
53. “a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
54. “The surest way to be alone is to get married.” ~ Gloria Steinem

55. “A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.” ~ Zsa Zsa Gabor

56. “When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.” ~ Vera Wang , Wedding quotes for bride
57. “I don’t know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain’t even never been to a wedding.” ~ Mike Epps
58. “We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.” ~ Luciano De Crescenzo
59. “Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house.” ~ Jean Kerr

60. “Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.” ~ Billy Connolly

61. “People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.” ~ Erma Bombeck
62. “Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.” ~ Mark Twain

63. “One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.” ~ M. M. Musselman

64. “Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.” ~ George Carlin
65. “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” ~ Rumi

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