My wife and I are celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary this year.
And the big wedding season of the year is upon us.
So I thought it would be fun for today’s post to share 125 of the most heartfelt and inspirational wedding quotes for a happy marriage and a love that lasts.
I hope you’ll find something helpful here if you’re getting married this year or if you’re making a toast at a wedding and want something meaningful but maybe also something funny.
Or if you simply want some inspiration and time-tested wisdom for your marriage or relationship.
Inspirational Wedding Quotes on Lasting Love
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
“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
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
“A good marriage isn’t something you find. It’s something you make, and you have to keep on making it.”
– Gary Thomas
“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 (from the book The Notebook)
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life – to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
– George Eliot
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
– Maya Angelou
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.”
– Christian (from the movie Moulin Rouge)
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
– Plato
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu
“To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.”
– Robert Brault
“The highest happiness on earth is marriage.”
– William Lyon Phelps
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
– André Maurois
“Walking with your hands in mine and mine in yours, that’s exactly where I want to be always.”
– Fawn Weaver
“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”
– Sam Levenson
“Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.”
– Harville Hendrix
“There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”
– Martin Luther
“The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership.”
– Helen Mirren
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”
– Ruth Bell Graham
“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
– Albert Einstein
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
– James Baldwin
“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.”
– Tom Mullen
“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
“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.”
– Michelle Obama
“Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.”
– Robert Browning
Famous and Wise Quotes on a Happy Marriage
“Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.”
– Ann Landers
“We support each other in everything that we do. I love seeing her succeed at the things she loves to do and she loves seeing me succeed at things that I love to do.”
– John Legend
“People say, ‘Jeez, it must be hard to stay married in show business.’ I think it’s hard to stay married anywhere. But if you marry the right person, it might work out.”
– Tom Hanks
“Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage.”
– Nick Cave
“Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.”
– Barbara De Angelis
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
– Sophocles
“The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you.”
– Bruce Forsyth
“Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.”
– Samuel Richardson
“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
– Dave Meurer
“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?”
– Mary Oliver
“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Franklin P. Jones
“When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.”
– Helen Gahagan Douglas
“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.”
– Pearl S. Buck
“We need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet… I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything.”
– Beverly (from the movie Shall We Dance?)
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You don’t make it common or ordinary.”
– F. Burton Howard
“True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.”
– Nicholas Sparks
“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.”
– Simone Signoret
“Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.”
– Leo Buscaglia
“Where there is love there is life.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”
– Henry Drummond
“A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.”
– Andre Maurois
“Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.”
– Boris Pasternak
“A happy marriage is the world’s best bargain.”
– O.A. Battista
“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
“You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
Cute and Romantic Wedding Quotes for Couples
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”
– A.A. Milne
“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
– Stephanie Perkins
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
– Joseph Campbell
“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.”
– Pablo Neruda
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
– Dr. Seuss
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Brontë
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
– Roy Croft
“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 (from the movie When Harry Met Sally)
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
– Mark Twain
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
– Leo Christopher
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire.”
– Bruce Lee
“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
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly and then all at once.”
– John Green (from the book The Fault in Our Stars)
“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
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
– Rumi
“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.”
– William Shakespeare (from Romeo and Juliet)
“After a while, you just want to be with the one that makes you laugh.”
– Mr. Big (from the TV-show Sex and the City)
“We’re friends, too. We love each other, but we actually like each other – and that’s an important distinction there.”
– Sting
“The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun.”
– Charles de Leusse
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
– Nicole Krauss
“I wish I had done everything on earth with you.”
– Daisy Buchanan (from The Great Gatsby)
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you.”
– Jane Austen
“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
“I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.”
– Unknown
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
– Nicholas Sparks (from the book A Walk to Remember)
“If I get married, I want to be very married.”
– Audrey Hepburn
Funny Wedding Quotes for Hilarious Marriage Humor
“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
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.”
– Will Ferrell
“Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music, and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.”
– Henny Youngman
“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
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love.”
– Robert Fulghum
“If I get married, I want to be very married.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“The secret is that you just take care of each other and admire each other and support each other and you get that back … If Jeffrey and I disagree on something, he always agrees with me!”
– Ina Garten
“You know you are in love when the two of you can go grocery shopping together.”
– Woody Harrelson
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”
– Henny Youngman
“People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.”
– Dr. Seuss
“I married for love but the obvious side benefit of having someone around to find my glasses cannot be ignored.”
– Cameron Esposito
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”
– Winston Churchill
“Marriage is like a graph – it has its ups and downs and as long as things bounce back up again, you’ve got a good marriage.”
– Julie Andrews
“Look, you want to know what marriage is really like? Fine. You wake up, she’s there. You come back from work, she’s there. You fall asleep, she’s there. You eat dinner, she’s there. You know? I mean, I know that sounds like a bad thing, but it’s not.”
– Ray Barone on (from the TV-show Everybody Loves Raymond)
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”
– Terry Pratchett
“I don’t want to hear about the endless struggles to keep sex exciting or the work it takes to plan a date night. I want to hear that you guys watch every episode of The Bachelorette together in secret shame or that one got the other hooked on Breaking Bad, and if either watches it without the other, they’re dead meat.”
– Mindy Kaling
“Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.”
– Carroll Bryant
Short Inspirational Wedding Quotes
“Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.”
– Unknown
“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.”
– Rick Warren
“Love starts as a feeling, but to continue is a choice; and I find myself choosing you more and more every day.”
– Justin Wetch
“A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.”
– Frank Sinatra
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
– Arrigo Boito
“I found the one my heart loves.”
– Song of Solomon 3:4
“Two are better than one.”
– Ecclesiastes 4:9
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
– Oscar Wilde
“I have a best friend as a husband, and he is my number one supporter.”
– Tamera Mowry
“Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.”
– Swedish proverb
“Romance is the glamor which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”
– Elinor Glyn
“Love, it never dies.”
– Gayle Forman
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“Do everything in love.”
– 1 Corinthians 16:14
“Love insists the loved loves back.”
– Dante Alighieri
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
– David Viscott
“Follow the way of love.”
– 1 Corinthians 14:1
“Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without.”
– William Parrish
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
– Janos Arnay
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
– William Shakespeare
“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”
– Jane Austen
“Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.”
– Unknown
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”
– Colossians 3:14
“You’re something between a dream and a miracle.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
– Arthur Conan Doyle
Want more inspiration and helpful tips about love? Then have a look at this one with many short love quotes here, this one with long distance relationship quotes and this one with funny love quotes. Plus, these short and romantic quotes and also the the top 35 love quotes for him in this post.