Modern Wedding Quotes
Modern weddings are all about personalization. Whether you’re a hopeless romantic or a diehard humorist, be inspired to personalize your wedding with a modern wedding quote—brimming with contemporary flair.
Leaf through this extensive compilation of quotes to find just the right modern reference, reading, saying, or poem. From serious to humorous, put a fresh twist on your stationery items and signage with a significant wedding quote.
A perfect match—whether it’s witty or warm, let your Wedding Invitations sing with a modern quote that nails your personality and wedding style. Sometimes all that it takes to set the tone is a short quote as an intro to the rest of your invite wording. Have a longer quote or saying you want to share? Try a larger size and even consider one of the Shaped Invitations to bring a little more style to your design.
Choose the quote that gives meaning to your day and best resonates with your personalities and style.
Because of you I can feel myself slowly but surely becoming the me I have always dreamed of being.
- Tyler Knott Gregson, Becoming
A perfect relationship isn’t ever actually perfect. It’s just that both people never give up.
- Unknown
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
- Paul Coelho, Aleph
We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.
- Unknown
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
Ah, life grows lovely where you are.
- Mathilde Blind
Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.
Eat drink and be married! Wedding Programs set the stage for your ceremony. Share your heart and express your style with a modern poem, quote, saying or phrase. Larger-sized programs such as the Half-fold, Gate-fold and Tri-fold types are best for longer quotes, poems, prayers and dedications.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
- Torquato Tasso
When someone else’s happiness is your happiness, that is love.
- Lana Del Ray
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
If I tell you I love you can I keep you forever?
You and me. Me and you. Both of us together!
As God decreed, so we agreed.
From silly to sentimental, weave a modern wedding poem within your stationery, in your speeches, notes, Programs, or Wedding Canvas. Let the poem’s significance wash over the hearts and minds of your guests—just like it did with yours. From rhymes and verses to limericks and odes ... a beautiful poem is a special reminder of your important day!
i carry your heart with me
(i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it
(anywhere i go you go, my dear;
and whatever is done by only me is your doing,
my darling)
- e.e. cummings, I carry your heart
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
- Henry Miller
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Unknown
Being with you is like walking on a very clear morning; I definitely have the sensation of belonging there.
- EB White
I want you today, tomorrow, next week and for the rest of my life.
- I.A. Dice, The Sound of Salvation
If I had my life to do over, I would find you sooner, so I could love you longer.
True love is the joy of life.
- John Clarke
Marriage is like a gift ... open it up and enjoy!
Happily ever after! From your Save the Dates to your DIY signs, get inspired to find a short quote or a witty one-liner that puts everyone in the right kind of vibe for your big day. Some of the greatest spots to place your modern wedding saying—is where guests naturally tend to gather: drink station, common seating areas, and guest book table.
I love you to the moon and back.
Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite. Anonymous
Best Day Ever!
He stole my heart so I'm stealing his last name.
What a Difference a Day Makes!
first date
first kiss
day of proposal
wedding day
You will forever be my always.
You’re the bestest like ever!
All because two people fell in love...
I want to have adventures with you!
The journey has begun ... set your ceremony to rites with a modern reading. Whether you’re personalizing your Programs or preparing your reader with a modern interpretation, put a fashionable spin on the formality of your service that reflects your love and style.
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
- Amy Bloom
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, and always with the same person.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
- Kahil Gibran, The Prophet
We’re beyond the days of slavery but willingly serving each other is a grace of marriage. Depending on each spouse’s time and talents, sometimes the husband takes the lead and other times the wife.
And the two shall become one.
- Ephesians 5:31, The Bible
I have found the one whom my soul loves.
- Song of Solomon 3:4, The Bible
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible—it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to trasnform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
- Barbara de Angelis
The moment I heard my first love story I began seeking you, not realizing the search was useless. Lovers don’t meet somewhere along the way. They’re in one another’s souls from the beginning.
- Rumi
Picture this—words of modern day love and romance scattered across your wedding landscape. What is more irresistibly engaging than a contemporary quote that makes your wedding come to life with joyful expression?! Add them to your Wedding Invitations and/or Reception Items.
I could conquer the world with just one hand ... as long as you were holding the other.
- Unknown.
And then my soul saw you and it kind of went “Oh there you are. I’ve been looking for you.”
- Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
You are every lovely word I could possibly think of.
- Unknown
Happiness is only real when shared.
- Christopher McCandless
You are what happened when I wished upon a star.
- Unknown
I Love you this much:
☐ To the moon and back.
☐ More than coffee.
☐ With my whole heart.
☐ Always and forever.
✓ All of the above.
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss
Our love cannot be measured, it just is.
- John Paul Stevens
Have a zest for prose and collected works? Let your inner bibliophile out with a famous quote, poem or reading from one of the masters. Display your love of literature across your wedding ... from your vows and stationery suite all the way to your reception tables. Trendy ideas for literary quotes include adding them to your Vows, Programs, Guest Book, and Table Number Cards.
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
There is no remedy to love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.
- John Keats
Love isn’t blind; it just only sees what matters.
- William Curry
We were together. I forget the rest.
- Walt Whitman
When I first saw you I fell in love and smiled because you knew.
- William Shakespeare
Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind.
- William Shakespeare
Put a contemporary spin on this age-old tradition with a modern-day quote that speaks to your values as well as your personality and wedding style.
Marriage is like a gift ... open it up and enjoy!
love always ... listen always ... learn always!
To Forgive is to Love.
When they asked me what I loved most about life, I smiled and said you.
- Unknown
Because of you I can feel myself slowly but surely becoming the me I have always dreamed of being.
- Tyler Knott Gregson
Love and Marriage means having to say sorry (and sometimes quickly)!
You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could live without you for as long as I have. I love, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.
- Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Come live with me and be my love.
From toasts and speeches to prayers and personalized notes, a modern wedding wish takes the cake when it comes to enriching your message with emotion and/or congratulatory flair. Be inspired to craft your own work of art as you browse this list of wedding wishes.
Best wishes to you both on your big day! May you enjoy all the blessings life and always know that a cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
- Anonymous
Congratulations! May your wedding day and every day afterward be filled with love, joy and happiness.
A perfect relationship isn’t actually perfect, it’s just that both people never give up.
- Unknown
A toast to love, laughter and happily ever after!
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