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.
Better to have the poet's heart than brain,
Feeling than song.
How could I think the brief years were enough
To prove the reality of endless love?
The more we love a mistress, the nearer we are to hating her.
Better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all. (Free translation).
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day
When I shall ask the banns and when be married.
Some dish more sharply spiced than this
Milk-soup men call domestic bliss.