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.
The song within your heart could never rise
Until love bade it spread its wings and soar.
My true love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given.
You say to me-wards your affection's strong;
Pray love me little, so you love me long.
I loved you ere I knew you: know you now,
And, having known you, love you better still.
Alas! the love of women! it is known
To be a lovely and a fearful thing!
The garlands fade, the vows are worn away;
So dies her love, and so my hopes decay.
Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himself
That hideous sight,—a naked human heart.