Your wedding is a Very Special Day. Regardless of whether it’s an intimate virtual event or a full-blown party with 500 of your closest friends, weddings are meant to be a fun and celebratory declaration of the love between you and your spouse-to-be.
For this reason, even if you’re not the most lovey-dovey person in the world, this is the event to try to express your love as best you can. But if you have zero idea where to start, don’t worry—that’s where we come in.
Words are hard, and while you might feel all the things for your significant other, it might be hard for you to put those thoughts down on paper or say them out loud. So to make it easier, here are 30 quotes you can use for your wedding vows, decor, invitations, Instagram captions, etc. Trust me, these are romantic as hell and will definitely get your love across.
Oh, and for all your other wedding needs, here are some fall wedding color schemes, lingerie sets for the night, the most popular wedding venues, and first-dance wedding songs.
Use these for your wedding invites
1. “Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” —Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
2. “When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you.” —Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
3. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” —Aristotle
4. “All of me loves all of you.” —John Legend, “All of Me”
5. “Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” —Robert Browning
6. “You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” —Dr. Seuss
7. “Love recognizes no barriers, it jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.” —Maya Angelou
8. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” —James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
9. “Who, being loved, is poor?” —Oscar Wilde
10. “Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.” —Henry David Thoreau
Put these quotes in your wedding vows
11. “Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.” —William Goldman, The Princess Bride
12. “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
13. “You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars.” —E. E. Cummings
14. “I would find you in any lifetime.” —Kanye West
15. “You are my greatest adventure.” —Mr. Incredible, The Incredibles
16. “I want all of you, forever. You and me, every day.” —Noah Calhoun, The Notebook
17. “I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
18. “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, except in this form in which I am not nor are you, so close that your hand upon my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my dreams.” —Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII
19. “You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
20. “Because of you, I can feel myself slowly but surely becoming the me I have always dreamed of being.” —Tyler Knott Gregson
Caption your wedding photos on Instagram with these quotes
21. “Some people are worth melting for.” —Olaf, Frozen
22. “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” —Arrigo Boito
23. “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
24. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” —Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
25. “Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.” —William Shakespeare, Hamlet
26. “You don’t love someone for their looks or their clothes or for their fancy car but because they sing a song only you can hear.” —Oscar Wilde
27. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” —Hermann Hesse
28. “Love is like a friendship caught on fire.” —Jeremy Taylor
29. “I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you.’” —William Shakespeare, Henry V
30. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” —Victor Hugo
Syeda is a writer for Cosmopolitan who likes to analyze and improve the way we look at sex as a way to topple the patriarchy. She also writes for Bustle.com, Muslim Girl, and Muslim.co. You can follow her on Twitter here and Instagram here.
