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.
I call love the recognizing of yourself in the other, and yourself your essential self.
Love will make men dare to die for their beloved—love alone; and women as well as men.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster which devours everything, that is, familiarity.
Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
The instances that second marriage move
Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
God, the best maker of all marriages,
Combine your hearts in one.
Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle,
The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
What God hath joined together no man shall ever put asunder: God will take care of that.
They'll tell thee, sailors, when away,
In every port a mistress find.
One wife is too much for most husbands to bear,
But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.