120 Wedding Quotes That Capture the Love You Feel for Your Future Spouse (2024)

As exhilarating as it is to be newly engaged, it can be all too easy to get swept up in the wedding-planning process and lose sight of what those endless checklists are actually about: celebrating the love between you and your partner. Because your profound connection and affection for one another is the reason why you're attending many meetings with your vendors and making countless design and logistical decisions, why not include messages about love in your wedding?

Maybe you're hoping to express how head over heels you are for your partner by including a romantic quote about love in your nontraditional wedding vows, or perhaps you're looking for short-and-simple wedding quotes to engrave on all of your big-day paper goods. Whatever you decide, incorporating phrases that honor your love for your future spouse will make the wedding festivities even more meaningful. Plus, if you're not entirely sure how to articulate just how much your significant other means to you, wedding quotes about love will attempt to grasp the significance of your relationship.

Wondering where to find these wedding quotes? Written works and motion pictures are filled with inspiration: Look to books, poems, songs, TV shows, movies, the Bible, and any other impactful medium for phrases that encapsulate your love. These messages will be particularly touching if they have sentimental value, like a line from your favorite series or a biblical passage that you frequently reference. There are also plenty of wedding quotes across various categories to choose from, whether you're on the hunt for a romantic, inspirational, or funny tone.

Ready to start your search? Here are 110 of our favorite wedding quotes to express your love for your future spouse on your special day, whether you add these words to your save-the-dates, personalized vows, newlywed toast, cocktail napkins, or any other big-day element. With the inspiration ahead, you'll be well on your way to creating the most heartfelt event.

Romantic Wedding Quotes

A romantic wedding quote about love is the perfect way to add meaningful prose to your nuptials, whether the words are part of your vows or your décor. When choosing yours, celebrant Alisa Tongg recommends selecting ones that feel authentic and natural.

• "In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine." — Maya Angelou
  
• "Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without." — William Parrish
  
• "If I know what love is, it is because of you." — Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
• "I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• "You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." — Dr. Seuss
• "Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century." — Mark Twain
• "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
• "Love is the thing that is always having the last word—even when those words are 'I'm sorry,' or 'Forgive me,' or 'I love you no matter what.'" — Cleo Wade
• "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you directly, without problems or pride: I love you like this because I don't know any other way to love, except in this form in which I am not nor are you, so close that your hand upon my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my dreams." — Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII
• "You are the love that came without warning; you had my heart before I could say no." — Unknown
• "The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
• "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." — Judy Garland
• "How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That’s what love does: It changes everything." — Lauren Bacall
• "I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.” — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
• "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get—only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything." — Katharine Hepburn
• "Loving you never was an option. It was a necessity." — Truth Devour, Unrequited
• "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." — Oscar Wilde
• "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever." — Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Inspirational Wedding Quotes

An inspirational wedding quote that hints at your unique love and connection is a great option for someone hoping to include a sentiment that's uplifting and compelling.

• "To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous." — Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
• "Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• "Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever." —Audre Lorde
• "It is love that makes the impossible, possible." — Indian Proverb
• "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is 'love.'" — Sophocles
• "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." — Lao Tzu
• "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." — Maya Angelou
• "You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments where you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." — Henry Drummond

Simple Wedding Quotes

A one-liner can certainly go a long way. Plus, short wedding quotes are ideal for stationery engravings, whether it's on your invitations, welcome sign, or menu cards. You can also use these short phrases as a jumping-off point that helps you flesh out your handwritten vows.

• "Love is like a friendship caught on fire." — Jeremy Taylor
• "There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage." — Martin Luther
• "For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
• "I can conquer the world with one hand, as long as you’re holding the other." — Unknown
• "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." — Audrey Hepburn
• "When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too." — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
• "You don't marry the person you can live with—you marry the person you can't live without." — Unknown
• "The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now." — Rick Warren
• "I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet, I know I will tomorrow." — Leo Christopher
• "Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive." — Unknown
• "You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." — Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
• "A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you." — Unknown
• "My love for you is a journey, starting at forever and ending at never." — Unknown
• "There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved." — George Sand
• "A life without love is like a year without summer." — Lithuanian Proverb
• "Who, being loved, is poor?" — Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
• "You're something between a dream and a miracle." — Elizabeth Barret Browning
• "Where there is love, there is life." — Ghandi
• "The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun." — Charles de Leusse
• "I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes." — Unknown
• "When I look at you, I see everything I've ever wanted." — Anonymous
• "You are every lovely word I could think of." — Unknown
• "Once in a while,right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.” — Anonymous

Funny Wedding Quotes

Want to inject a bit of humor into your special day? Consider embedding a funny wedding quote that encapsulates your love for your partner. Whether you add these words to your vows, toasts, or signage, including a comical phrase is guaranteed to bring laughter and lightness to your affair.

• "If I get married, I want to be very married." — Audrey Hepburn
• "May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise." — Rumi
• "Romance is the icing, but love is the cake." — Unknown
• "Great love affairs start with Champagne." — Honoré de Balzac
• "People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love." — Dr. Seuss
• "I'm married to a very unusual person, but maybe it took a very unusual person to be willing to marry me." — Fiona Shaw
• "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me." — Winston Churchill
  
• "Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are." — Will Ferrell
• "Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat." — Joanne Woodward
  
• "The secret to a good marriage is to be a little deaf."— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• "Love is a two-way street constantly under construction." — Carroll Bryant
• "Love is a lot like a backache; it doesn't show up on X-rays, but you know it's there." — George Burns

Wedding Quotes About a Loving Marriage

Celebrate your future marriage with these wedding quotes about a loving partnership. Incorporating a quote about the bond of your union is a great way to add depth to your big day, while focusing on your best friend for life.

• "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." — Mignon McLaughlin
• "The great marriages are partnerships; it can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership." — Helen Mirren
• "I would not wish any companion in the world but you." — Shakespeare, The Tempest
• "The greatest marriages are built on teamwork, a mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace." — Fawn Weaver
• "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time." — Julia Child
• "Remember, we all stumble; every one of us. That is why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand." — Emily Kimbrough
• "Walking with your hands in mine and mine in yours, that’s exactly where I want to be, always." — Fawn Weaver
• "Love is not about staring at each other, but staring off in the same direction." — Antoine de Saint Exupéry
• "Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited." — Gloria Steinem
• "It's amazing how one day someone walks into your life, and suddenly, you can't remember how you lived without them." — Anurag Prakash Ray
• "Marriage flourishes when the couple works together as a team: when both husband and wife decide that winning together is more important than keeping score. Good marriages don't just happen. They are a product of hard work." — Michelle Obama
• "To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness." — Robert Brault

Wedding Quotes From Books and Plays

Who says you can't incorporate a quote that dives a little deeper into romance? Wedding quotes about love from literature are perfect for the person who really wants to make a statement (or for someone who loves reading!).

• "You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you." — Jane Austen, Persuasion
• "And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you." — Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars
  
• "For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you." ―Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
• "They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered." — F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
  
• "To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves." — Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
• "The very essence of romance is uncertainty." ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
• "Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches." — William Goldman, The Princess Bride
• "I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
• "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite." — Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
• "Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." — E.E. Cummings, You are My Sun, My Moon, and All My Stars
• "If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you." — A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
• "You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones." — Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising
  
• "He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began." — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
• "I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever." ―Robert Browning, Pauline: The Fragment of a Confession
  

Wedding Quotes From Poetry

Adding a few lines from your favorite poem is a great way to embrace a meaningful quote at your wedding. Lines of a poem and other lyrical messages from pop culture can be easy to relate to and can beautifully sum up what love means. "Just that little phrase from a favorite song or poem or movie is enough to bring with it a treasure chest of other feelings, promises, memories, and hopes for the future," Tongg says.

• "What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life–to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?" — George Eliot, Adam Bede
• "Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar but never doubt thy love." — William Shakespeare, Hamlet
• "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach." — Elizabeth Barret Browning, "How Do I Love Thee?"
• "Love starts as a feeling,
  But to continue is a choice;
  And I find myself choosing you
  More and more every day." — Justin Wetch,"Bending the Universe"
• "Love at the lips was touch
  As sweet as I could bear;
  And once that seemed too much;
  I lived on air." — Robert Frost, "To Earthward"
• "Love
  Is a ripe plum
  Growing on a purple tree.
  Taste it once
  And the spell of its enchantment
  Will never let you be." — Langston Hughes, "A Love Song for Lucinda"
• "Love is not love
  Which alters when it alteration finds,
  Or bends with the remover to remove
  O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
  That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
  It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
  Whose worth is unknown, although his height be taken." — William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116"
• "Our love will bloom always fairer,
  Fresher, more gracious,
  Because it is a true love" — Honoré de Balzac
• "Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be." — Robert Browning, "Rabbi Ben Ezra"
• "I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart). I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)." — E. E. Cummings, I Carry Your Heart With Me

Wedding Quotes From TV Shows and Movies

It might make sense to refer to a few wedding-appropriate quotes from you and your future spouse's favorite TV shows—especially if you love cozying up on the couch to catch up on or rewatch a beloved series.

• "You make me happier than I ever thought I could be, and if you let me, I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way." — Chandler, proposing to Monica on Friends
• "True love is something else entirely: It is when the rest of the world goes quiet. It is not eyes that meet, but souls that dance. Settle into each other. Make room for each other. Until there is nowhere else to hide." — Bridgerton, Season 2
• "Three words. Eight letters. Say it, and I'm yours." — Blair Waldorf,Gossip Girl
• "I believe that when you find love, you hold onto it and you cherish it. Because there is nothing finer, and it may never come again." — George Feeny,Boy Meets World
• "There are dreamers and there are realists in this world. You think the dreamers would find the dreamers and the realists would find the realists, but more often than not, the opposite is true. See, the dreamers need the realists to keep the dreamers from soaring too close to the sun. And the realists? Well, without the dreamers, they might not ever get off the ground." — Cameron, Modern Family
• "For the first time, I see what the rest of my life looks like." —Schmidt, New Girl
• "Not enough for me? You are everything." — Jim to Pam, The Office
• "I love you, and I like you." — Parks and Recreation
• "I love our relationship. I love when you order me pizza. I love when you use words like inventory. I even love those stupid rubber things you put on your fingers because you think they flip the pages faster. They don’t flip the pages faster!” — David to Patrick, Schitt's Creek
• "I could promise to hold you and to cherish you. I could promise to be in sickness and in health. I could say, 'till death do us part.' But I won't. Those vows are for optimistic couples, the ones full of hope. And I do not stand here, on myweddingday, optimistic or full of hope. I am not optimistic; I am not hopeful. I am sure; I am steady. And I know that I am aheartman. So of this I am sure: you are my partner, my lover, my verybest friend, my heart. My heart beats for you. And on this day, the day of our wedding, I promise you this: I promise you to lay my heart in the palm of your hands; I promise you me." — Preston Burke, Grey's Anatomy
• "When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you and I'm home." — Dory, Finding Nemo
  
• "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." — Harry, When Harry Met Sally
  

Wedding Quotes From the Bible

A verse from the Bible or an excerpt from a prayer is a powerful inclusion for couples holding a religious ceremony. Pulling lines that have relevance to your relationship and speak to your faith will help provide guidance for a successful marriage.

• "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs." — 1 Corinthians 13:4-5
• "Do everything in love." — 1 Corinthians 16:14
• "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." — 1 Corinthians 13:13
• "So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” — Matthew 19:6
• "And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity." — Colossians 3:14
• "Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law." — Romans 13:8
• "Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life." — Psalm 143:8
• "I found the one my heart loves." —Song of Solomon 3:4
• "Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.” — John 3:18
• "Two are better than one." — Ecclesiastes 4:9
• "Follow the way of love." — 1 Corinthians 14:1

When it comes down to it, remember that this day—and the words you choose to share during it—is all about the love that you and your partner have for one another. Remember to have some fun while choosing the quotes you want to include! Think about what really made you fall in love with your person, and let that feeling guide you as you select wedding quotes.