35 Best Wedding Quotes to Celebrate Your Big Day
Much like true love, these quotes just get better with time.
When it comes to your wedding, no detail is too small—especially the words chosen for your nuptial vows, toasts, and even the short quote used as a decorative element on the programs. So as you plan the finishing touches, from the perfect cake topper to the bouquet and first dance song selection, keep an eye out for wedding quotes that hold particular meaning for you and your bride or groom. To make your search just a little easier, we’ve created this list of our favorite contenders.
Whether your occasion is modern-chic or country-sweet (we’re going to drop this link to country wedding ideas here, no pressure), these moving quotes about love and marriage will set just the right tone for your celebration. If you are looking to weave some wisdom from the Good Book into your big day, keep these verses about marriage in mind too. As the years go by, these words will only become more meaningful as your relationship grows—the ultimate happy wedding anniversary quote to pen to your one and only.
Loved ones of the happy couple, from best friends to dear siblings and parents, will also find plenty of inspiration here for that all-important speech. Also, don’t miss our tips for what to write in a wedding card as well as the best wedding Instagram captions for the epic photos of the ceremony and reception that are sure to follow.
Best Wedding Quotes for Couples
André Maurois
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
Maya Angelou
“Love recognises no barriers, it jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.”
Olaf, Frozen
"Some people are worth melting for."
Beyonce Knowles
"If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you."
Tom Mullen
“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.”
Phoebe Cary
"…true love is never blind, but rather brings an added light."
The Beatles
"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
Audrey Hepburn
“If I get married, I want to be very married.”
Jane Austen
"It is such a happiness when good people get together—and they always do."
Robert Brault
“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.”
Blake Shelton
"On my own I’m only half of what I could be."
Mignon McLaughlin
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
Judy Garland
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
Unknown
"You don't marry the person you can live with—you marry the person you can't live without."
J. R. R. Tolkien
"I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."
Dwight Moody
"Faith makes all things possible. Love makes all things easy."
Lao Tzu
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Pearl S. Buck
"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love."
Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee"
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
Jeremy Taylor
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire."
Leah Hall is currently a digital producer and writer for Country Living. She is based in Huntsville, Alabama.
Terri Robertson is the Senior Editor, Digital, at Country Living, where she shares her lifelong love of homes, gardens, down-home cooking, and antiques.
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