Top 100 Wedding Marriage Quotes
#1. Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.
Victor Hugo
#2. The first year of marriage is like wet cement - the impressions made in it are much harder to change once it has set.
Robert Wolgemuth
#3. There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
Woody Allen
#4. Man was not intended to live alone ... marriage is the best cure for that wretched lingering over one's work. I think I must feel more settled than you all. I would immensely like to see you all married like myself and anchored.
John Everett Millais
#5. Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.
Shannon L. Alder
#6. Do You Believe
Do you believe
that I have loved you
since the dawn of time?
Do you believe
that we were destined
to be intertwined? ...
Muse
#7. The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
Heinrich Heine
#8. A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.
Mignon McLaughlin
#9. And thus Snow White became the prince's bride.
The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast
and when she arrived there were
red-hot iron shoes,
in the manner of red-hot roller skates,
clamped upon her feet.
Anne Sexton
#10. The five rings of marriage: there's the engagement ring and the wedding ring, but there are three others, too: the boring, the suffering and the lawyering. I watched it for 20 years from behind a bar in Ft. Lauderdale. I prefer to stay single.
Steve Trotter
#11. She realized it wasn't about the wedding; it was about the marriage. Her. Him. Together. She got married barefoot because all she cared about was him. That guy. And the throw-up shoes weren't going to stop that from happening.
Alice Clayton
#12. It said if you were nervous about committing yourself to marriage and it was because you doubted yourself and whether you would make a good partner, then that was only natural and you should go ahead. It also said that if you doubted that the other person was right for you, then you should stop it.
Carole Matthews
#13. Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.
Mordecai Richler
#15. Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
Anne Sexton
#16. It would have been a wonderful wedding - had it not been mine.
Erma Bombeck
#17. If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head
Khaled Hosseini
#18. The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.
Katy Perry
#20. There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
Ronald Reagan
#21. It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
Karen Joy Fowler
#22. If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.
Carol Ann Duffy
#23. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering. ~ Unknown
Melinda Curtis
#24. It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
Samuel Johnson
#25. Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.
George Jean Nathan
#26. Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be.
Rachel Abbott
#28. May your union be filled with love
Annealed by passion
Built on a strong foundation
And tempered by time
Richard L. Ratliff
#29. The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it. Sexual union, then, is where the words of the wedding vows become flesh.
Christopher West
#31. Do You Believe
... on this road of life
on this day
I take you
now husband and wife ...
Muse
#32. Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.
Maryon Pearson
#33. Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding ... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.
Eileen Wilks
#34. Laurel: I don't need a ring or a license, or a spetacular white dress. It's not marriage so much, or at all really, that matters. It's the promise. It's the knowing someone wants me to be part of his life. Someone loves me, that I'm the one for him. That's not just enough, it's everything.
Nora Roberts
#35. It was his wedding day, and then it was any day; it was nothing, and then it was forever.
Tim Farrington
#36. The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the "I do" of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married.
Kathleen Norris
#37. Just because marriage didn't work for us doesn't mean we don't believe in the institution. Just because our own marital track records are mixed doesn't mean our hearts don't lift at the sight of our daughters' Tiffany-blue wedding invitations.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#39. My wife is so stupendously ugly it is easier to take her with me than to kiss her goodbye.
Max Miller
#40. After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
Douglas William Jerrold
#41. The hardest years of a marriage are the ones following the wedding.
Susan Santangelo
#42. Bush proposed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Some saw the move as an attempt to preserve traditional values, while others saw it as a cynical ploy to ensure that Vice President ... Cheney will never have to pay for his gay daughter's wedding.
Jon Stewart
#43. It is true, that all married men have their own way, but the trouble is they don't all have their own way of having it.
Artemas Ward
#44. When I get married, I'm gonna register at Bank of America.
Chelsea Handler
#45. Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. I think the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight ... It's not a gay wedding, it's just a wedding ... It's not a gay marriage, it's just a marriage.
Pink
#48. Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
Michel De Montaigne
#49. What kind of wedding would you like?" he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply.
"The kind that turns you into my husband." She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingers. "What kind would you like?"
He smiled ruefully. "A fast one.
Lisa Kleypas
#51. About their wedding on a beach of Nantucket, after nearly 50 years together as a couple: "After years of being who we truly were only in the privacy of our homes or with a few friends, we were out in the world, under the sky, no longer pretending." - Norman Sunshine, co-author, Double Life
Norman Sunshine
#52. The story is told of a famous German chemist that his marriage did not take place, because he forgot the hour of his wedding and went to the laboratory instead of to the church. He was wise enough to be satisfied with a single attempt and died at a great age unmarried
Sigmund Freud
#54. Appreciate her for who she is.
Auliq Ice
#55. She's always suggesting books like a literary marriage broker, wedding readers to the titles just right for them.
Joseph Bruchac
#56. Paradoxically, the more you truly love that person, the more love you receive.
Seth Adam Smith
#57. Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.
Paul Hornung
#58. Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
Michel De Montaigne
#59. The Sultan's wife must never remain without books that please her: a clause in the marriage contract is involved, a condition the bride imposed on her august suitor before agreeing to the wedding ...
Italo Calvino
#60. A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
Jean Giraudoux
#61. The wedding is where two people become one. The marriage is where they decide which one.
Robert Breault
#62. Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
Margaret Mitchell
#63. The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
Alexandre Dumas-fils
#65. A tattoo is art and not a possession as love is beauty and intangible. A tattoo is a promise, not an accessory.
Danielle Valenilla
#66. I've always remembered the celebrant at my friend Eileen's wedding saying that one of the most important things in marriage is for the woman to abandon herself to her husband,' Em said. 'Not to submit to him, or obey his every wish, but just to trust him completely with her heart.
Danielle Hawkins
#67. To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.
Voltaire
#68. In the process of planning and having a wedding, I forgot there would actually be a marriage, a union of minds, bodies, souls, and issues that would come together as soon as the ceremony was over.
Iyanla Vanzant
#69. Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
Rebecca West
#70. Newspaper columnist Dave Barry once wrote that the motto of the wedding industry is, 'Money can't buy you happiness, so you might as well give your money to us.
Denise Fields
#72. To keep one's marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash
Meg Cabot
#73. What about me?" Wes snapped. "Don't I get a vote?"
Daniel shook his head. "She's willing and you're breathing. I pronounce you man and wife.
Jodi Thomas
#74. Most couples get married because it's time, not because they're in love. They might have money issues, parental pressure, or they're simply tired of being alone - so they pick Mr. Good Enough and tie the knot.
H.M. Ward
#76. A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don't have ... to prove the love they think they have.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#77. Truth be told, many couples spend more time planning the wedding and the honeymoon than they do preparing for the marriage.
Carlos Wallace
#79. She saw the scarlet thread of her lips, the light in her eyes, the family through their love, their children running barefoot in a fresh field.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#80. On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
Rachel Swirsky
#81. 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. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
Nick Cave
#82. Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed.
Peter Scott
#84. Georgie pretended to dance. She clung to Neal's shirt. They rubbed their noses together. "You're my wife," Neal said, and then he laughed, and she tried to catch his dimples with her teeth. (Like if she caught them she might get to keep them.)
"Yours," she said.
Rainbow Rowell
#85. The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
Oscar Wilde
#86. Nothing can be more beautiful than the one you love on earth except yourself.
Auliq Ice
#90. Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#91. Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
Minnie Pearl
#92. You shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song.
Jacob Grimm
#93. The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process of marriage that it seemed to celebrate a mystic double death with its ritual.
John Steinbeck
#94. I married a man who was as much a part of me as my own soul.
C.J. English
#95. With the first line of Mehendi, she forgot her troubles and delved into the beautiful world of checkered patterns and intricate lines.
Sumeetha Manikandan
#96. A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.
Sarah Ruhl
#97. I'll follow this good man, and go with you;
And, having sworn truth, ever will be true.
William Shakespeare
#98. Marriage is sacred. It was created to be the wedding portrait of Christ and His Bride hung over the blazing fireplace of judgment. A match made in Heaven, a contract signed in blood. In the bond of marriage, we are to stand at the altar of Sacrifice or we're not to stand at all.
Beth Moore
#99. A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them?
Judith Martin
#100. The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.
Albert Einstein
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