Wedding season is here, and if you're in need of some inspiration for your speech, card, or social media post, you're in the right place. This post contains 101 heartfelt, powerful, and funny short wedding quotes that will add meaning and joy to that special day for both you and the happy couple.
Whether you're attending a wedding or planning your own, these timeless sayings can also work beautifully for wedding vows.
Short Wedding Quotes and Sayings for the Happy Couple
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
– André Maurois
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu
“Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.”
– Gloria Steinem
“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.”
– Franz Schubert
“The secret is that you just take care of each other and admire each other and support each other and you get that back.”
– Ina Garten
“The highest happiness on earth is marriage.”
– William Lyon Phelps
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
– Maya Angelou
“To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.”
– Robert Brault
“Marriage is the highest state of friendship.”
– Samuel Richardson
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”
– Ruth Bell Graham
“We’re friends, too. We love each other, but we actually like each other – and that’s an important distinction there.”
– Sting
“There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”
– Martin Luther
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”
– Plato
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
– Sophocles
“When a marriage works, nothing on Earth can take its place.”
– Helen Gahagan Douglas
“A good marriage is a contest of generosity.”
– Diane Sawyer
“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
“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
“A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.”
– Frank Sinatra
Short and 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
“The secret to a good marriage is to be a little deaf.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.”
– Will Ferrell
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”
– Henny Youngman
“You know you are in love when the two of you can go grocery shopping together.”
– Woody Harrelson
“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
“Monogamy is monotonous, but it’s safe, you know? And that’s my philosophy.”
– Joy Behar
“I married for love but the obvious side benefit of having someone around to find my glasses cannot be ignored.”
– Cameron Esposito
“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.”
– Robert Fulghum
“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
“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
– Dave Meurer
“If I get married, I want to be very married.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“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
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”
– Winston Churchill
“Being someone’s first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.”
– Unknown
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
“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 Romano
“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“If Jeffrey and I disagree on something, he always agrees with me!”
– Ina Garten
“People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.”
– Dr. Seuss
Short Inspirational Wedding Quotes for a Speech or Card
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?”
– Mary Oliver
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
– Dr. Seuss
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.”
– Bill Wilson
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.”
– Ann Landers
“I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love.”
– Pablo Neruda
“Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.”
– Harville Hendrix
“This is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible beings who do not run away from life.”
– Paul Tournier
“Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“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
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision.”
– Louis de Bernières
“Where there is love there is life.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.”
– Rumi
“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
“Being in a long marriage is a little bit like that nice cup of coffee every morning – I might have it every day, but I still enjoy it.”
– Stephen Gaines
“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
“I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.”
– Jodi Picoult
“The best thing about time passing is being able to see that I was right to believe in you.”
– Unknown
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
– Joseph Campbell
The Best Short Wedding Quotes for a Joyful Marriage
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire.”
– Jeremy Taylor
“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
– Stephanie Perkins
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
– James Baldwin
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.”
– Charlotte Brontë
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
– Oscar Wilde
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.”
– Rick Warren
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
– Arthur Conan Doyle
“There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.”
– George Sand
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
– Oscar Wilde
“You’re something between a dream and a miracle.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun.”
– Charles de Leusse
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
– Roy Croft
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect; you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
– Jodi Picoult
“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
– Helen Keller
“You know it’s never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It’s always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty.”
– Jodi Picoult
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
– Nicholas Sparks
“Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without.”
– William Parrish
“How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That’s what love does: It changes everything.”
– Lauren Bacall
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
– Herman Hesse
Short Wedding Anniversary Quotes for a Strong Love
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
– Robert Browning
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you.”
– Andrew McMahon
“The best relationships are the ones where you can completely be yourself.”
– Unknown
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
– Aristotle
“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
– Mark Twain
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Brontë
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
– Helen Keller
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).”
– E.E. Cummings
“Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.”
– Jennifer Smith
“Walking with your hands in mine and mine in yours, that’s exactly where I want to be always.”
– Fawn Weaver
“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 friendship that has caught fire.”
– Ann Landers
“A happy marriage is the world’s best bargain.”
– O.A. Battista
“Think not because you are now wed, that all your courtship’s at an end.”
– Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“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
“You come to love not by finding the right person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
– Sam Keen
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