Best Wedding Quotes and Marriage Sayings

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Marriage is probably the most important relationship in a person’s life. A wedding is the coming together of not just two people, but two families and their friends and relatives. Besides its social importance, marriage has its natural and universal importance. Philosophers and great men and women have always said great things about the institution of marriage. Weddings are associated with true love, best friends, and longevity in this lasting relationship.

Here are some of the best wedding quotes that you can share with your to-be-spouse or friend who is about to get married to make them feel special!

Wedding Quotes and Sayings

Marriage is an authentic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity–everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.
Sir Thomas Moore

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.
Criss Jami

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
Simone Signoret

Best Wedding Quotes

A marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s the way you love your partner everyday.
Barbara De Angelis

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
Socrates

May love and laughter light your days, and warm your heart and home.
Irish Proverb

It is such a happiness when good people get together – and they always do.
Jane Austen

Marriage is love personified.
Phoenix Flame

So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me… everyday.
Nicholas Sparks

If I get married, I want to be very married.
Audrey Hepburn

Marriage is just a fancy word for adopting an overgrown male child who cannot be handled by his parents anymore.
Unknown

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

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin

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Wedding Sayings

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Lord Byron

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.
Robert Frost

I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
Emerson

Happiness [is] only real when shared
Jon Krakauer

Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
I Corinthians 13:7

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
André Maurois

A great marriage is not when the perfect couple comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
Dave Meurer

Good Wedding Quotes

Marriage–a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.
Beverly Nichols

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Robert Quillen

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.
Erma Bombeck

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de Balzac

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Joseph Barth

Some relationships are like Tom and Jerry, they argue and disagree all the time, but they still can’t live without each other.
Unknown

Weddings remind us that our lives have meaning and that love is the strongest bond, the happiest joy, and the loveliest healing we can ever experience.
Daphne Rose Kingma

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
Joseph Campbell

This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.
L. Ron Hubbard

To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
John Lennon

Marriage Quotations

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer

Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
Millicent Carey McIntosh

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

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.
Jennifer Smith

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.
Ogden Nash

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
Anne Taylor Fleming

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.
Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen

Marriage is getting to have a sleepover with your best friend, every single night of the week.
Christie Cook

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
Ring Lardner

The most important four words for a successful marriage: I’ll do the dishes.
Unknown

Wedding Bell Blues Sayings

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Oscar Wilde

Marriage is not just spiritual communion; it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Dr. Joyce Brothers

The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.
Robert C Dodds

You don’t marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as a result of being married to you.
Richard Needham

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Sir Harold George Nicolson

Inspirational Wedding Quotes

May joy and peace surround you, contentment latch your door. And happiness be with you now—and bless you evermore.
Irish Proverb

No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is not saying.
Unknown

Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.
Tom Mullen

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each morning and night.
Irish Proverb

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Barbara De Angelis