112 Wedding quotes for the big day and beyond.

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.”

Will Ferrell

Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there.”

George Burns

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

A good bait and switch is common among cute wedding quotes.

The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.”

E. Joseph Cossman

This funny wedding quote doubles as marriage advice, and it’s perfect for a card.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music, and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.”

Henny Youngman

Funny wedding quotes are often risible because they hold a kernel of truth. Read between the lines, and maybe this quote is saying that it’s OK (and healthy) to do some things apart.

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.”

Paul Sweeney

Some of these funny wedding quotes are perfect for wedding anniversary cards down the line.

A good marriage is like a casserole: only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.”

Unattributed

I married for love but the obvious side benefit of having someone around to find my glasses cannot be ignored.”

Cameron Esposito

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”

Winston Churchill

Wedding invitation quotes revel in the upcoming nuptials as much as they do the couple’s decision to get hitched.

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.”

Chris Rock

If you’re decorating for a wedding shower or another related event, funny wedding quotes come in handy for posters and banners.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”

George Bernard Shaw

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you’re offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone’s feelings.”

David Sedaris

I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.”

Elizabeth Evans

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The art of love...is largely the art of persistence.”

Albert Ellis

If you can stay in love for more than two years, you’re on something.”

Fran Lebowitz

There are certain perfect funny wedding quotes (like this one) for the couple who took their time getting married.

Love me when I least deserve it because that is when I really need it.”

Swedish Proverb

Who knew? Proverbs can be funny, too.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

Mignon McLaughlin

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

Remix this famous Tolkien quote to make it ultra-wedding-centric by saying: “I would rather share this one day with you than the ages of this world alone.”

A great marriage is not when the “perfect couple” comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”

Dave Meurer

Wedding advice quotes are timed perfectly when given in cards or letters on the big day, because as soon as that wedding is over, the work of being married starts.

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 — and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.”

Barbara de Angelis

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”

André Maurois

Speaking of short, this compact wedding quote can easily fit onto posters and banners.

This is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible beings who do not run away from life.”

Paul Tournier

Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Even at a happy occasion like a wedding, it’s important to remember that hard times are inevitable. The nuptials are just another tool in the toolbox to overcome future challenges.

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.”

Harville Hendrix

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.”

Christian (Ewan McGregor), Moulin Rouge

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

Bruce Lee

This quote is most often seen in a truncated form, using only the first line, “love is like a friendship caught on fire.” The rest of the quote gives the message a new (and beautiful) meaning, though.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

Rumi

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.”

Diane Sawyer

Some of the best marriage advice is simple.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but not make a bond of love: Let it be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

Kahlil Gibran , The Prophet

It is such a happiness when good people get together — and they always do.”

Jane Austen

This is a perfect message for a wedding card to congratulate the couple.

A marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s the way you love your partner every day.”

Barbara De Angelis

Wedding advice quotes celebrate the nuptials then help the couple focus on what starts immediately thereafter.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning a handspring, or eating with chopsticks: It looks easy until you try it.”

Helen Rowlan

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

Dr. Seuss

A little Dr. Seuss in your wedding announcement quotes can add a touch of sweetness.

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. ”

William Shakespeare

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”

Mignon McLaughlin

Imagine this quote in a photo collage of the couple’s favorite pictures.

When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”

Arrigo Boito

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.”

Roy Croft

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

Not just all the time, but forever more. This is a classic among wedding invitation quotes.

Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.”

Tom Mullen

If you’re looking for wedding shower quotes for an couple you’re about to see, this quote aptly says, “you’re obviously in love; you’re at your best, and I’m happy for you.”

To be fully seen by somebody then and be loved anyhow — this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”

Nicholas Sparks , A Walk to Remember

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”

Alfred Tennyson

Not all wedding quotes are from friends or family. This quote could be a message from one soon-to-be-spouse to the other, helping them each remember the “why” behind all the planning.

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 Brault

This quote says that it’s not the wedding day that makes the magic, it’s the relationship.

For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

Stephanie Perkins , Anna and the French Kiss

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

Jane Austen

In a card for a wedding shower, this becomes a cheeky message that the betrothed is talking nonstop (and too much) about the wedding. Still, you can add, “that must mean you’re really in love.”

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

Leo Tolstoy

True love stories never have endings.”

Richard Bach

After the hustle and bustle of wedding planning, what’s left? The story doesn’t end there.

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

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.”

Robert Brault

Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.”

Madeleine Elster (Kim Novak), Vertigo

Tag your soon-to-be-wed friends with fun wedding quotes for Instagram like this one. Short but beautiful, this line hits the nail on the head.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.”

Martin Luther

Since the guy who said this was responsible for reforming the Church specifically to allow for more marriage, this quote has a powerful history behind it.

Remember, we all stumble; every one of us. That is why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.”

Emily Kimbrough

The bride and groom — may their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.”

Minna Thomas Antrim

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

Plato

If you’re the “still single friend,” you can use this quote in a card and add, in jest, that since you haven’t been made into a poet yet, you had to quote Plato instead.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

Audrey Hepburn

The best wedding quotes for Instagram are short and use memorable metaphors that lend themselves to cute images.

What greater thing is there for two human souls then to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”

George Eliot

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.”

Franz Schubert

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.”

Oscar Wilde

It's not uncommon to celebrate a friend’s second (or third) marriage over the years. There’s a way to celebrate every nuptial, starting with this quote.

Happiness is anyone and anything at all, that's loved by you.”

Charlie Brown

Sometimes, we have a friend whose partner we don’t know that well — yet. Maybe the friend lives far away, or maybe the relationship is new. If you know your friend, though, you know that person found happiness.

When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.”

Julia Roberts

If you’ve seen your friends go through rough relationships before, it’s a beautiful thing to see the journey as a series of steps to get where they are now.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”

János Arany

The role of a friend is sometimes to suspend disbelief. If a happy relationship is borne from tough circumstances, this quote shows unwavering support.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

Maya Angelou

All my friends are getting married. I guess I’m just at that age where people give up.”

Amy Schumer

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.”

Sally Albright (Meg Ryan), When Harry Met Sally

For those weddings that came faster than some expected, throw the newlyweds a bone and remind everyone just how love can make us move.

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

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.”

Franka Potente

You can go on with this logic and then elaborate: to give someone your commitment for life, that’s the greatest representation of time, isn’t it?

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

There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?”

Mary Oliver

This quote strikes with humor, plus subtextual advice: the going won’t be easy, but if you’re in love, it will be worth it.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”

Nicholas Sparks , Message in a Bottle

There are those times when you know two people were made for one another, and this quote fits the moment beautifully.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”

Ruth Bell Graham

Two hearts in love need no words.”

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Speech over.

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

Newlyweds tend to stand up and say a few words, too. This quote is perfect for one of them to say — through smiles or tears (or both) — to the other.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

Sarah Dessen

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”

Mark Twain

You don’t stop loving a person when they’re hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you.”

Kristin Hannah , The Great Alone

In every house of marriage there’s room for an interpreter.”

Stanley Kunitz

If you know the couple intimately and can offer yourself as an ear when their communication falters, this quote is a thoughtful one to put in a card.

But the heart’s not like a box that gets filled up. It expands in size the more you love.”

Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), Her

As a stand-alone, this quote is beautiful. Its context in the movie, however, sends a complicated message. Think about what you want to say with any quote, and don’t hesitate to remix or reframe if the source isn’t “just right.”

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”

Sam Levenson

Love is not something you feel. It is something you do.”

David Wilkerson

Of all the ways you can act out your love, a wedding is a big one.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

Emily Brontë

Accompany this with a photo of the couple at their happiest.

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

Ursula K. LeGuin , The Lathe of Heaven

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.”

Simone Signoret

You are, and always have been, my dream.”

Nicholas Sparks , The Notebook

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

Lao Tzu

This message can go on a photo collage or in a card.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.”

Ann Landers

You can instantly imagine the visuals that could accompany this quote.

For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.”

Rosemonde Gerard

A wedding day will (hopefully) be a magical and memorable one, but it certainly won’t be the day the newlyweds love one another the most. That gets stronger over time.

Oh continue to love me — never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.”

Ludwig van Beethoven

Marriage is a risk; I think it’s a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.”

Cate Blanchett

For the couple that shares the same lifestyle spirit, this message has layered meanings.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.”

Zelda Fitzgerald

Put the immeasurable into words, if only for how incalculable it is.

I don't want someone to make me happy, I want someone to build happiness with me.”

Augusto Branco

The wedding day is the start of building something great together.

Two souls with but a single thought; two hearts that beat as one.”

John Keats

I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.”

Javan

If I get married, I want to be very married.”

Audrey Hepburn

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”

Henny Youngman

This is a cheeky way to say, “take all the advice you get with a grain of salt.” Each couple, ultimately, has to learn their own secrets of a happy marriage.

Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from.”

Nora Ephron

Think not because you are now wed, that all your courtship’s at an end.”

Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza

A little rhyme makes this short wedding quote especially memorable.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage.”

William Lyon Phelps

Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.”

Robert Browning

Where could you surprise your partner with a message like this one right before you tie the knot?

On my own I’m only half of what I could be.”

Blake Shelton

Some people find the “you complete me” language a bit dated, but how about “you make me a better me?”

Where there is love, there is life.”

Mahatma Gandhi

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”

David Viscott

The imagery of this quote is something you can almost feel, and it’s wonderful.

We loved a love that was more than love.”

Edgar Allan Poe

Who, being loved, is poor?”

Oscar Wilde

Any wedding on a shoestring budget can benefit from the message behind this quote.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

Henry David Thoreau

To me, you are perfect.”

Love Actually

This short quote makes for a great photo caption, but for any fans of the movie, consider its context.

You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.”

Margaret Mitchell

Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had.”

Nicholas Sparks

Used in a wedding card, this means that the wedding itself is your “dream come true.”