Need a meaningful quote for your ceremony program? Some couples use a quotes they’ve heard a family member say in the past, a meaningful snippet from their favorite novel, or a humorous line from a movie or TV show.
Here are a few of our favorite wedding, marriage and love quotes – please feel free to incorporate them into your wedding ceremony program, a reception speech or toast, etc. Or, you can even use many of them as anniversary quotes in the years ahead. 😉
Wedding Quotes
All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.
― Ed Sheeran
From this day forward,
You shall not walk alone.
My heart will be your shelter,
And my arms will be your home.
― from “Illuminata”, Marianne Williamson
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.
― Robert Browning
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. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
― Roy Croft
If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.
― Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
― from “Romeo and Juliet”, William Shakespeare
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.
― Nicholas Sparks
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
― Arrigo Boito
You are my today and all of my tomorrows.
― Leo Christopher
Marriage Quotes
A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed all the sweets of life.
― from “The Spectator”, Joseph Addison
A marriage is a gift. It should be opened up and enjoyed.
― Greg Evans, American Writer
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
― Mignon McLaughlin
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.
― Barnette Brickner
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
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
― from “Table Talk”, Martin Luther
Funny Marriage Quotes
In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
― Woody Allen
It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
― Rita Rudner
Anniversary Quotes
As we grow older together, as we continue to change with age, there is one thing that will never change… I will always keep falling in love with you.
― Karen Clodfelder
Forever is a measure of time used by people who share an ordinary love. Our extraordinary love is immeasurable… for us, forever just won’t do.
― Steve Maraboli
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
In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.
― Virginia Woolf
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
― Zane Grey
Real love stories never have endings.
― Richard Bach
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
― Audrey Hepburn
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
― Henry David Thoreau
Love Quotes
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
― Elbert Hubbard
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
―Lao Tzu
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.
― from “100 Love Sonnets”, Pablo Neruda
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
― Herman Hesse
Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.
― from “A Walk to Remember”, Nicholas Sparks
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
― from “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Robert A. Heinlein
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
― Maya Angelou
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
― from “Nature Boy”, Nat King Cole
The heart that loves is always young.
― Greek Proverb
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
― from “The Truth About Forever”, Sarah Dessen
Where there is love there is life.
― Mahatma Gandhi
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
― Dr. Seuss
Wedding Quotes FAQ
What are wedding quotes?
Quotes that reference marriage or love are often incorporated into a wedding. They can be anything from a quote that a family member has said in the past to a meaningful snippet from a favorite novel, movie or TV show.
How are quotes used in a wedding?
Wedding quotes can be incorporated into a couple's wedding vows, printed in a wedding ceremony program, or used by a family member during a reception speech or toast.
What are some famous wedding quotes?
Robert Browning's 'Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be' is a popular wedding ceremony quote, as is Marianne Williamson's 'From this day forward, You shall not walk alone. My heart will be your shelter, And my arms will be your home.'
How many wedding quotes should I use?
A single quote or two chosen by the bride and groom or loved ones can add a very meaningful touch to the wedding ceremony, but more quotes could be incorporated into speeches or toasts at the wedding reception.