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.
You should indeed have longer tarried
By the roadside before you married.
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing,
That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
So bent on self-sanctifying,—
That she never thought of trying
To save her poor husband as well.
To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.
...the madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings...