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.
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Scarcely a tear to shed;
Hardly a word to say;
The end of a Summer's day;
Sweet Love is dead.
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
As the birds do love the spring,
Or the bees their careful king.
One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, and ten
Money can't buy you back the love that you had then.
Love is a circle that doth restless move
In the same sweet eternity of love.
’Tis love, not years or limbs that can
Make the martyr, or the man.
Love of peace, and lonely musing,
In hollow murmurs died away.
Your eyes were filled with love, Kate Vane;
Ah, would that we were young again!
Thou canst not pray to God without praying to Love, but mayest pray to Love without praying to God.
The sun has burst the sky
Because I love you
And the river its banks.
Forth we went, a gallant band—
Youth, Love, Gold and Pleasure.