Wedding Quotes
Wikiquote has no wedding page of its own to draw on, so this one is a blend of the marriage, love and romance pages. Only one quote in the data is filed under weddings directly: Ambrose Bierce’s entry in The Devil’s Dictionary (1911), a definition of the ceremony as a joke about who ends up as nothing. It is funny and it is not for a toast.
For a reading or a speech, the love and romance material is the better bet. Shakespeare and Byron are both here. Look at the source line under each quote before you print it on anything.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water.
Girls we love for what they are;
Young men for what they promise to be.
O that it might remain eternally green,
The beautiful time of youthful love.
At lovers' perjuries Jove laughs and throws them idly to the winds.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Matrimony must be like a sound flogging, for it makes the veriest block-heads learn something.
The chain of marriage is so heavy that it takes two to carry it—sometimes three.
Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.
A virtuous wife when she obeys her husband obtains the command over him.
Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.