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Wedding Quotes

From dress jitters to declarations of love.

Wedding quotes here run the full range, from candid lines about the stress of planning a wedding to heartfelt words about the love that makes it worthwhile. Whatever your mood, there's a line here for the moment. Pair them with our Messages for cards and toasts.

Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.

Quotes by Jessica Valenti

I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.

Quotes by Jackie Evancho

I always envisioned myself having a traditional and elegant wedding.

Quotes by Ivanka Trump

At first, when we got engaged, I asked him if we could just go to Vegas and get married by Elvis, just because I didn't want to deal with planning a wedding.

Quotes by Italia Ricci

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

Quotes by Heraclitus

I mean, I do wear a wedding ring and take it off when I shoot.

Quotes by Henry Ian Cusick

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Quotes by Henry Fielding

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

Quotes by Helen Reddy

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

Quotes by Helen Rowland

O month when they who love must love and wed.

Quotes by Helen Hunt Jackson

I had a huge Indian wedding, and I did it for my wife, and I did it for my white friends.

Quotes by Hasan Minhaj

My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.

Quotes by Hannah Ware

Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.

Quotes by Gore Vidal

We are all trained by Disney to believe that the wedding is the finish line, but the wedding is just another starting line. In light of this fact, we should quit the huge, fancy, debt-inducing weddings.

Quotes by Glennon Doyle Melton

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

Quotes by George Ade

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

I love going to weddings. I love movie scenes of weddings. Even, like, TV-show weddings - I cry at every wedding.

Quotes by Frankie Cosmos

When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.

Quotes by Eydie Gorme

I wore one of my own designs on my wedding day.

Quotes by Emilia Wickstead

If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

Quotes by Ellie Kemper

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Frequently Asked Questions

Do these wedding quotes lean romantic, or is the tone different?
Surprisingly candid, not romantic — several are honest about how stressful planning a wedding actually is, like 'falling in love was the easy part; planning a wedding - yikes!' It's a funnier, more relatable angle than the usual sentimental wedding quote.
What's the etiquette around choosing between a written wedding message and an in-person congratulations?
A written message works well when you can't be there in person or want to add something beyond a spoken toast, while an in-person congratulations covers the moment itself. Many people do both — a short spoken wish at the event and a longer written one sent separately.
What's the story behind the quote about not finding the right wedding dress?
It's from someone who got married at 40 and couldn't find a dress with the modern, sophisticated style she wanted — a gap she then turned into starting her own wedding gown business. It's less a quote about marriage itself and more about the fashion and planning side of a wedding.
Is wedding content mainly for the couple, or is it used by guests too?
Both — the couple uses captions and messages for their own posts, while guests write and share their own lines about the couple's new beginning. That dual use is part of why wedding content spans so many formats, from short captions to full prayers.
Where's a more romantic option if that's what I'm actually looking for?
Wedding Messages and Wedding Prayers both lean sentimental in a way this particular quote set doesn't.
How does a wedding prayer differ in purpose from a wedding quote?
A prayer is directed at God on the couple's behalf, asking for blessing over the marriage itself, while a quote is usually someone else's observation or reflection about weddings or love in general, not a request for anything. Wedding Prayers reflects that more devotional angle specifically.
Why does wedding shayari often carry a bittersweet or emotional tone rather than a purely celebratory one?
Weddings genuinely involve loss alongside celebration — a daughter leaving her parents' home, a friend group's dynamic changing — and shayari's poetic tradition is well suited to holding both feelings in the same lines rather than only the happy side. Wedding Shayari leans into that fuller emotional range.
What's the difference between a wedding caption and a wedding status?
A caption is written to accompany a specific photo, so it's tied to that image, while a status stands alone as its own post without needing a picture attached. Wedding Status is built for that standalone use.

Whether you need something for a save-the-date or a toast at the reception, these quotes cover the highs and the chaos of getting married. See our Captions for photo-ready lines.