53 Beautiful Wedding Quotes About Love For Your Big Day

Katie Strasberg Rousso
·7 min read

Express your love to your honey-to-be with these romantic, sincere, sweet, and funny quotes to include in your wedding, from invites to vows to speeches.

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Looking for the perfect wedding quote that expresses your commitment to unconditional love on your Big Day? These quotes—from authors and actors, to TV shows and the Bible—offer something for everyone. 

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Wedding Quotes From Movies And TV

  • "When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you and I'm home."—Dory, "Finding Nemo"

  • "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"

  • "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."—Harry, "When Harry Met Sally"

  • "There are dreamers and there are realists in this world. You think the dreamers would find the dreamers and the realists would find the realists, but more often than not, the opposite is true. See, the dreamers need the realists to keep the dreamers from soaring too close to the sun. And the realists? Well, without the dreamers, they might not ever get off the ground."—Cameron, "Modern Family"

  • “I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once-in-a-lifetime love.”—Leo, "The Vow"

  • “True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”—Nicholas Sparks, "Message in a Bottle"

  • “You are, and always have been, my dream."—Nicholas Sparks, "The Notebook"

Wedding Quotes From Songs

  • "I don't know where I'd be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You're my best friend."—Tim McGraw

  • “One love, one heart, one destiny.”—Bob Marley

  • “And, in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”—Paul McCartney

  • "You're the only one and only
    My heart's beating for
    I love you, need I say more."—George Strait

  • "You're my bread when I'm hungry,
    You're my shelter from troubled winds 
    You're my anchor in life's ocean 
    But most of all, you're my best friend."—Don Williams

  • "Take my love. I'll never ask for too much. Just all that you are. And everything that you do."—Whitney Houston

  • "So tell me when you look in my eyes, can you share all the pain and happy times? 'Cause I will love you for the rest of my life."—Pink

  • "I love you just the way you are."—Billy Joel

  • "Life's a dance you learn as you go, sometimes you lead sometimes you follow, don't worry about what you don't know."—John Michael Montgomery

Funny Wedding Quotes

  • "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."—Winston Churchill

  • "The things that you have done for me, to help me, support me, surprise me, to make me happy, go above and beyond what any person deserves. You're all I need. I love you and I like you."—Leslie, "Parks and Recreation"

  • "People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love."—Dr. Seuss

Romantic Wedding Quotes

  • "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 that you are making of me."—Roy Croft

  • "We loved with a love that was more than love." Edgar Allan Poe

  • “I will follow you to the ends of the world.”—Khaled Hosseini, "A Thousand Splendid Suns"

  • “If I know what love is, it is because of you.”—Hermann Hesse

  • "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."—Audrey Hepburn

  • “I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.”—Jamie McGuire, "Beautiful Disaster"

  • “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach”—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

  • “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"

  • "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."—Leo Tolstoy

  • "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."—Emily Brontë

  • "Happiness is anyone and anything at all, that's loved by you."—Charlie Brown

Inspirational Wedding Quotes

  • "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."—Lao Tzu

  • "Where there is love there is life."—Mahatma Gandhi

  • "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."—Maya Angelou

  • "…true love is never blind, but rather brings an added light."—Phoebe Cary

  • "There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."—Sarah Dessen

  • "You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments where you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."—Henry Drummond

  • “Love is a luxury. No. Love is an element. An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.”—Laini Taylor, "Daughter of Smoke & Bone"

  • "Two hearts in love need no words."—Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  • "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

Wedding Quotes About Marriage

  • "Grow old with me! The best is yet to be."—Robert Browning

  • "The highest happiness on earth is marriage."—William Lyon Phelps

  • "Marry someone who laughs at the same things you do."—J.D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

  • "Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are."—Will Ferrell

  • "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."—Mignon McLaughlin

  • “I don't want someone to make me happy, I want someone to build happiness with me.”―Augusto Branco

Bible Verses For Weddings

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  • "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance."—Corinthians 13:7

  • "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs."—1 Corinthians 13:4-5

  • "Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life."—Psalm 143:8

  • "And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them."—1 John 4:16

  • "Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame."—Song of Songs 8:6

  • "Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned."—Song of Songs 8:7

  • "For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies."—Psalm 57:10

Let's face it: When it comes to love, words often fall short, but these heartfelt wedding quotes will make your heart flutter with joy.

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