50 Engagement Quotes to Help Announce Your Big News

50 Engagement Quotes to Help Announce Your Big News

A wedding engagement is a major milestone and unforgettable occasion for many couples. It’s a declaration of love and commitment that symbolizes the start of a new life together. Whether your engagement was a complete surprise, or you saw it coming, it’s a memorable experience that just about every couple cherishes. Now that you’ve said “yes!” and plan to take a walk down the aisle, celebrate the wonderful news with romantic engagement quotes.

If your family and friends weren’t present when the big question was popped, you’ll want to spread the word about your upcoming nuptials as quickly as possible. They say good news travels, right? If that’s the case, there’s no better way to get the message out than on social media. Posting engagement quotes on Instagram or Facebook is a great way to grab attention and let all the people in your online orbit in on your exciting plans.

Not a fan of sharing personal news on public platforms? No worries. These engagement quotes also work well as handwritten notes to loved ones or can even be incorporated into wedding toasts if you’re not the soon-to-be newlyweds. They can also serve as tender messages to accompany thoughtful wedding or bridal shower gifts.

Need some inspiration? Don’t worry, we’ve rounded up some of the best engagement quotes from famous authors to popular poets to commemorate the big step towards wedded bliss. From endearing sayings about marriage to inspiring messages of commitment, you’ll fall in love with every word.

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  • “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach

  • “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” – Anonymous

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

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

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

  • “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • “You don’t marry someone you can live with—you marry the person you cannot live without.” — Anonymous

  • “The best proof of love is trust.” — Joyce Brothers

  • “Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.” — Leo Buscaglia

  • “True love is the best thing you’ll ever find.” — Anonymous

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

  • “Thee lift me, and I lift thee, and we’ll ascend together.” — Quaker proverb

  • “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • “Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.”— Albert Einstein

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

  • “Engagement marks the end of a whirlwind romance and the beginning of an eternal love story.” — Rajeev Ranjan

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  • “Wherever you are is my home, my only home.” — Jane Eyre

  • "There is no cure for love other than marriage." — Irish love proverb

  • “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

  • “And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.” — Kiersten White

  • “Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.” — Michael Leunig

  • "Once you've found the right person, you just know." — Sophie Turner

  • “Love reminds you that nothing else matters.” — Amy Bushnell

  • “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

  • “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

  • The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller

  • “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — Carl Jung

  • “We may have started as individuals, but now we are as one.” — Bryon Pulsifer

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

  • “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • “Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.” — Anonymous

  • “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Bronte

  • “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” — Ernest Hemingway

  • “I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me.” — Kamand Kojouri

  • “What is done in love is done well.” — Vincent van Gogh

  • “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

  • “I would bend my knee a million times to stand by you.” — Jordan Kimball

  • “Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.” — Dante Alighieri

  • “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle

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  • “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  • “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 happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” — Ruth Bell Graham

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

  • “Marriage is not kick-boxing, it’s salsa dancing.” — Amit Kalantri

  • “I’ve found someone who refuses to let me be anything but myself.” — Hayley Paige

  • “Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.” — Unknown

  • “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

  • “We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.” — St. Bernard of Clairvaux

  • "Marriages, like a garden, take time to grow. But the harvest is rich unto those who patiently and tenderly care for the ground." — Darlene Schach

  • "Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." — Franklin P. Jones

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