53 Perfect Wedding Quotes for Your Special Day

It’s not always easy to find the right words to express your feelings for your partner. Thankfully there are many poets, authors, philosophers, and actors who have conveyed their odes to love before. For the record, it’s not cheating to get a little help from the pros when declaring your love. We put together this list of perfectly heartfelt wedding quotes that you can use to emphasize the beauty of your love on your special day.

Quotes for Between Partners

1. “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
2. "I swear I couldn't love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow." – Leo Christopher
3. “I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, and all that you are yet to become.” – Ernest Hemingway
4. “Home is wherever I’m with you”. – Flame Adora
5. “A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.” – Anonymous
6. "Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." — E.E. Cummings, You are My Sun, My Moon, and All My Stars
7. "I would not wish any companion in the world but you." — Shakespeare, The Tempest
8. "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you directly, without problems or pride: I love you like this because I don't know any other way to love, except in this form in which I am not nor are you, so close that your hand upon my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my dreams." — Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII
9. “You are my best friend, my human diary, and my other half. You mean the world to me, and I love you.”- Anonymous
10. “If I know what love is, it’s because of you.” – Herman Hesse
11. “Grow old along with me! The rest is yet to be...” – Robert Browning
12. "Our love will bloom always fairer, fresher, more gracious, because it is a true love." — Honoré de Balzac 
13. “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
14. “I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want… a steady hand. A kind soul.” - Shana Abe
15. “I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” – Paul Coelheo, The Alchemist
16. “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
17. “The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.” – H. L. Mencken

Quotes About Love

1. “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
2. “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” – Madonna
3. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." – Maya Angelou
4. “Faith makes all things possible. Love makes all things easy.” – Dwight Moody
5. “There is never a time and place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” – Sarah Dessen
6. “Love is what happens when two hearts find their happy place right beside each other.” – Anonymous
7. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Bronte
8. “Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.” – Henry David Thoreau
9. “Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance.” Corinthian 13:7
10. “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
11. “And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.” – Kahlil Gibran
12. “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
13. "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
14. "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
15. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tsu
16. “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
17. "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
18. “Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairytale.” – Anonymous
19. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

Quotes About Marriage

1. “Marriage, like a garden, takes time to grow, but the harvest is rich unto those who patiently and tenderly care for the ground.” – Darlene Schatch
2. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
3. “Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.” – Dalai Lama
4. “A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.” – Pearl S. Buck
5. “Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.” – Tom Mullen
6. "Marry someone who laughs at the same things you do." – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
7. “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company, than a good marriage.” – Martin Luther
8. “A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.” Andre Maurios
9. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
10. “Marriage is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.” – Khalil Gilbran
11. “There is no such thing as a perfect man or a perfect marriage. But the one I have is perfect for me.” – Fawn Weaver
12. “Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.” – Barbara De Angelis
13. “The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.” – William Lyon Phelps
14. “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It’s threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.” – Simone Signoret
15. “It’s not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Fredrich Nietzche
16. “Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.” – Jennifer Smith
17. “Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.” – Harville Hendrix

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