One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight;
Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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 wisest man the warl' e'er saw,
He dearly loved the lasses, O.
Got only one heart/One heart with no spares/Must save it for loving/Somebody who cares
Love is either rewarded with reciprocation, or with secret contempt.
Socrates … said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved.
God recommends his own love to us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.