50 Wedding Quotes to Remind You of Your Special Day

“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

“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

“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”– Andre Marois

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”– Sophocles

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”– Blaise Pascal

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”– Charles M. Schulz

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”– E.E. Cummings

“This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you.”– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.”– Dr. Seuss

“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

“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

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”– Albert Einstein

“Romance is the glamor which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”– Elinor Glyn

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“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, Me: Stories of My Life

“When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.”– John Lennon

“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

“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”– Oscar Wilde

“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

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”– Tom Bodett

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”– Rumi

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”– Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Airman’s Odyssey

“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

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”– David Viscott

“We can do no great things; only small things with great love.”– Mother Teresa

“Where there is love there is life.”– Mahatma Gandhi

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow–this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”– Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“If I get married, I want to be very married.”– Audrey Hepburn

“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 than when I fall asleep your eyes close.”– Pablo Neruda

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

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

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

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”– Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”– Alfred Tennyson

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”– Lao Tzu

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness–and call it love–true love.”– Robert Fulghum, True Love

“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”– Helen Keller

“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life–to strength 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

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”– Edgar Allan Poe

“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

“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

“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”– Marilyn Monroe

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“What is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”– Victor Hugo

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Arrigo Boito

“Who, being loved, is poor?”– Oscar Wilde

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

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

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”– Henry David Thoreau