Love Quotes for Your Wedding Invitations

A few words to set the tone

A short quote can be a lovely addition to a wedding invitation, RSVP card, or Order of Service — a small detail that adds warmth before your guests even reach the practical information. Below is a collection of quotes about love and marriage, organized by theme so you can find one that fits the feeling of your day.

On Love & Commitment

Timeless lines about choosing one another, highly favored for main invitation cards in the US.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

— Audrey Hepburn

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

— David Viscott

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

— Emily Brontë

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.

— Robert Browning

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

— Robert Frost

True love stories never have endings.

— Richard Bach

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

— Aristotle

We loved with a love that was more than love.

— Edgar Allan Poe

On New Beginnings

Lines that capture the excitement of starting a new chapter together.

Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.

The companion of a lifetime starts with a single day.

Today we begin a new chapter — written beautifully by the two of us.

From this day forward, you shall not walk alone.

And so the adventure begins.

The best time for new beginnings is now.

This is the start of our forever.

Two lives, two hearts, joined together in friendship, united forever in love.


On Friendship & Partnership

For couples whose love story is built on being best friends first.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

— Dr. Seuss

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

— Willa Cather

Love is friendship that has caught fire.

— Ann Landers

I marry my best friend today, the one I laugh with, live for, and dream with.

Home is wherever I'm with you.

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.

— Nicholas Sparks

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird... we fall into mutual weirdness and call it love.

— Robert Fulghum

Poetic & Literary

Beautifully crafted words from renowned American and classic authors.

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 state to you quite frankly that the universe also consists of less visible things, like love.

— E.E. Cummings

I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.

— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Bill Wilson

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

— Voltaire

I have found the one whom my soul loves.

— Song of Solomon 3:4

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust. Love never fails.

— 1 Corinthians 13

Short & Sweet

Brief, modern expressions — perfect for enclosure cards, RSVPs, or accents.

Together is a beautiful place to be.

Better together.

Love is patient, love is kind.

You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

— E.E. Cummings

Two hearts, one love.

All of me loves all of you.

Forever starts now.

You and me, always.


Shakespeare & Classic Verse

Iconic English literature quotes that remain deeply popular in American wedding culture.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.

— William Shakespeare

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

— William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep.

— William Shakespeare

Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move... but never doubt I love.

— William Shakespeare

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Timeless Blessings

Traditional lines and scripture often chosen for standard US elegant ceremonies.

Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge.

— Ruth 1:16

And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

— 1 Corinthians 13:13

Two are better than one; for if they fall, the one will lift up the other.

— Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

May your wedding days be many, and your troubles be few.

— Traditional Blessing

May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night.

— Irish Blessing

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

— Song of Solomon 8:7

Wedding Sayings

Classic, heartfelt phrases that have graced stationery across America for decades.

And they lived happily ever after.

To love, laughter, and happily ever after.

Hand in hand, heart to heart, together forever.

Two hearts that beat as one.

This day I will marry my friend, the one I share my life with.

From this day forward.

Once you've chosen a quote, let us know where you'd like it placed and our designer will work it into your suite alongside your wording.